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Offline chuckar101

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Flight Safety Toronto
« on: June 30, 2010, 08:45:31 PM »
Hey guys and gals,

     I'm off to toronto for flight safety in the Twin Otter.  Anybody been up there before?   Any ideas on what to expect?  There for a couple weeks any good bars/places to visit?  Thanks for any input.

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Offline FlyboyGil

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Re: Flight Safety Toronto
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2010, 01:12:33 AM »
Well it depends on what you're looking for. The good bars are downtown in the Entertainment district. A half decent subway will get you down there. I don't know any off by heart, but I've been in some with friends. There's the CN Tower of course. Cultural wise, there's the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
http://www.rom.on.ca/
which has artifacts and displays on all sorts of stuff. There's the Toronto Science Centre, which also has an IMAX. Many tour buses will run you around. It's on Lake Ontario, so you may be able to do some swimming Air and Space Museum. You get to see what a giant Lancaster Bomber looks like unassembled while she goes through Restoration.
http://www.casmuseum.org/home.shtml
If you have time to travel, roughly 2 hours east, there's the RCAF museum, with the only fully restored Halifax bomber in the world
http://www.airforcemuseum.ca/

These are just what I know about. There's probably alot more that is waiting to be discovered
http://www.discovertoronto.ca/

Hope this helps
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Offline chuckar101

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Re: Flight Safety Toronto
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2010, 03:22:08 AM »
Thanks I'm there for school so will only have time on the weekend, but the museums should keep me entertained, before the drinking starts ::drinking:: ::drinking:: ::drinking:: 
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Re: Flight Safety Toronto
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2010, 04:23:01 AM »
I cannot speak for the nightlife because I was working long days.
Trying to fly through all of their training areas (in essence through the approaches) we had to use 4 radios to keep up with all of the frequencies (plus several changes)....

Circling the CNN tower was fun  My assigned altitude was 20 feet above (and below) the next airplane. 
We were really close, I could see the individual tourists in the tower. 
My pax's were waving at them.

Flying around Niagara falls was interesting.
Took off at max gross.  I was awfully close to my declared abort point before the wheels finally broke pavement.
Have to approach a certain vector (52 degrees it seems to me).  Clockwise only at specific altitudes.  Helo's low, fixwings high.
Since I was so high, to give my pax's a view, I put her on her wing.....

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