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Nice. Yeah, they really are phenomenal. Thanks for watching!

Thanks 👍

Thanks, Glen. Really enjoying your Give Hope Wings videos.

Thanks, Gary! Good to hear from you.

Thanks! And thanks for watching.

Thanks! Yeah I need to dig my old flight sim gear out and set it up again. Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much!

Thanks! Felt good to be back at the computer editing a video. :)

lol thanks! All good here, hope you are too.

Oh nice, good luck with the PPL! Thanks for watching.

Thanks very much!

lol. That scene took a LOT of takes and I had to keep wetting my whistle 😀

Thanks for watching. Good luck with the flight to Teterboro! It’s not as bad as you’re probably thinking. 😀

Thanks, Andrew! I hope I'm as thorough with the briefing a few years from now as I am today.

Yeah personally I like to have Jepp charts since I’m the USA but I dont know if they have them for Canada or not looks like it was just gov charts you had

@@andrewseneker7515 yes I use Nav Canada charts. They’re different than the FAA’s charts and I quite like them. To be fair, I’ve never tried using the Jepp charts but I have taken a look at one or two and didn’t see a big difference against the Canadian ones. At least not enough to make the cost worth it for me.

Thank you! You’re the first person to say they like the music, all other mentions of it are more like “music is not necessary”. Lol

I agree it would help. But making it a legal requirement would price probably 2/3 of private GA pilots out of aviation.

@@WingsOverTO They should arrange for an avionics producer to have an inexpensive option so it's not a 60k$ operation. Garmin offers it's G3x for 3k. They might cost 400$ to make. It's possible

Thanks very much! Your eclipse experience sounds like it was really nice as well. Cheers.

Thanks very much, I appreciate you reaching out. It's actually pretty good for crosswind landings. It's a heavier plane than a C172 or something like a Piper Archer or Arrow, so it is more stable and resists the crosswinds a bit better. If the winds are routinely 18-25 and mostly crosswind, you'll certainly get good at it! :) I max out at 25kt winds with a 15kt crosswind component - absolute max for me and only if it's a must - but the plane is rated for a 17kt crosswind.

@@WingsOverTO thanks for the info! I appreciate it!

Thanks!

Thanks so much!

Yeah there's a lot of crazy stuff that happens there. Glad your situation was nothing more than an anecdote!

Oh wow 12 months! Good luck this week! Let me know how it goes.

Thanks! Yes, very familiar with the guidelines around flying and scuba diving. We didn’t dive on this trip and are generally overly cautious about it. Have fun!

Glad you liked it!

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Thanks!

Congratulations! Which airport are you based at?

@@WingsOverTO plane is in Oshawa now but I’ll be moving it to CNC3 I’m a few weeks. Where are you?

@@davidbrewster9743 nice, I’m in Oshawa as well. Let me know if you want to get together and talk Bahamas planning.

Interesting, thanks. Do you have a source for that? I just looked at their site and it doesn't seem to say anything about it having support for an autopilot. What I found in an FAQ is that it *will* work with just S-Tec autopilots for now, because those have their own roll/pitch source. So hopefully your Sundowner has an S-Tec already or you're willing to put a used one in, because there are no new S-Tecs certified for our planes.

Yes, you need to be on either VFR flight following or on an IFR flight when you’re crossing the border. Check out my video from a couple of months ago if you’re curious - I laid out the steps for planning and making a cross border flight. Cheers.

Thanks, TJ! It really was amazing, and fun to get to watch it with a bunch of other aviation enthusiasts. I even ran into my mechanic there, who'd also flown out from my home airport.

You’ll have another chance in 2033 in Egypt! 😀

@@WingsOverTO lol! I should plan for that. Btw, I have been trying to reach out to you. Do you have a good email address to reach?

Wingsoverto@gmail.com

Completely agree. It would also just really help English-speaking pilots flying around Quebec, since they wouldn’t really be able to understand other pilots are reporting their position and know where to look. (And French pilots in the rest of the country; too.) Thanks, Glen.

Yeah I really wonder what Canada is going to do about US planes. Because just the software change wouldn’t be enough - you actually need a second roof mounted antenna as well. So that’s an expense that most US pilots just won’t be willing to take on.

It might be wishful thinking but I would not be shocked if a Garmin GTX335 or 345 is the same hardware as a 335D or 345D (diversity to allow two antennas) but has different software to allow so. I am certainly hoping this for my future requirements and will be holding off to see how it plays out. Alternatively possibly Garmin will offer a factory upgrade to modify the units if a hardware upgrade is also required. We just need our neighbours to apply some pressure in numbers.

Thanks! And thanks for watching.

Totally agreed! Thanks for watching.

Yikes. That’s scary. Yeah even more important at night. Glad all was ok with your incident!

Oh nice. That was my original plan. Did you find as the pilot you were able to look are the eclipse and really see it?

@@WingsOverTO mulitasked... announcing postion on radio, looking out for traffic, snapping a pic or two, putting on the glasses for few second glances... bubble canopy helped I suppose.

Hey Dave, it was good to meet you at Kincardine. Shoot me an email, let's keep in touch. You can find the address on my RUclips About page.

That sounds amazing. Did they have events going on around it?

@WingsOverTO Nope. No events other than a few beers in my hanger.😆

Yup! That caught me by surprise as well. We haven't had snow in Toronto for over a month, so I was not expecting to see it just 90 minutes east of here. Thanks for watching!

Agreed! We would not have been able to do that in a car. Just too far to drive and we wouldn’t have beaten the eclipse there.

lol absolutely!

Thanks! The short answer is weather. I need to cross the mountain range somewhere along that first leg, either north in the adirondacks or further south over the appalachians. At the time I was a VFR pilot only and there were low clouds all across the mountain range til I got further south. So I crossed over West Virginia before making my way further south.

Thanks, John! Definitely, and we did not try to keep it close, as you can see.

Yeah the space in these things is second to none.

Hey Alex, thanks! We were able to fly VFR the whole way but it did involve a lot of waiting around for clouds to clear. So as long as you’re comfortable with that, you should be ok. Keep in mind that in mid summer, Florida and the entire southeastern US coast is prone to a lot of mid-day thunderstorms. So plan to do most of your flying as early in the day as possible, or after sunset. Happy to talk through more tips and share my experience if it’s helpful. Send me an email at wingsoverto@gmail.com.