Aviation Licences and Documents from the past

I was required to do a Show and Tell amongst my retired group of aviators on old aviation documents from the past. What better way than to make a RUclips video that can be viewed at their leisure and available to others with an interest in aviation.
The Birth of my book, Tower Tales…
Immediately after an unusual occurrence, incident or accident, an Air Traffic Controller must enter a writeup in the daily Control Tower Logbook. On duty controllers, whether witnessing the event or not, were required to write a report in detail of what they observed and retain it for future use. Accident investigations sometimes take many years to resolve. Controllers needed to refresh their memories and re-familiarize themselves by reading their previous story report before being called on to present their accounts of the occurrence to an accident investigation board of inquiry.
As an Air Traffic Controller at the Calgary airport, I witnessed many accidents and unusual situations that I had to log. I retained these stories for many years thereafter, knowing they might also be of interest to readers in the future. I also wrote up any unusual event that happened over my many years of flying and added these to the long list of stories I had on file while working in the Towers.
For many decades these ATC and flying stories were filed away and forgotten. Then, over the last few years, I took them out, dusted them off and began transferring them from written long-hand to a digital format. The stories were all factual accounts of the happenings over my 27 years in ATC and my 52 years as a commercial pilot. The final result was my book Tower Tales, 90 stories in a 350 page book.
I had 100 copies printed and these sold out in a few months. As it was too costly to have more printed, I decided to only continue the digital version as an e-book on Amazon.ca. These can be found by searching - Tower Tales by Jim Hall on Amazon.ca
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