Night Flight into Toronto Pearson (CYYZ) in a 112 !

[proppilot]

Colleagues,

Toronto Pearson (CYYZ) is in the Top 10 busiest airports in North America and the largest in Canada. I had heard about folks in GA aircraft being granted access into the airspace these recent weeks to do touch and go's or low and overs at Pearson. Last week I took a day off and upon contact with ATC was denied and told that it had been NOTAM'd off for those kinds of flights so away I went. Wednesday night I was doing an evening/night cross country and my hangar mate is a controller and saw me on their net and texted me to see if I wanted to go in. He set it up down the line and in I went for a low and over of Runway 05, a teardrop and back around the other way before heading home. What a thrill !! Attached is a link to a video if you want a peek. The good stuff starts at 5:00 in the clip. Unfortunately the camera in low light and a low shutter speed shows the panel lighting flashing which it is not.


Flying 22 years and it never gets old

This link in the primary thread does not seem to work and I get an error when I try to remove it. Try the link in the second posting. Takes a few seconds to load.

 

[proppilot]

MS link does not seem to work.....try this one....


https://1drv.ms/v/s!Ami4ezud4qEA8kc7...sIk5I?e=cpEVvH

 

[FS]

There are a lot of folks around here landing at Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark, sometimes two or all three in the same day. I'm told they won't allow touch-and-go, so you actually have to land full stop, then taxi back around for departure.

 

[proppilot]

Thats awesome. Pearson was going to allow a 'contact' landing but it would have been a $ 300 bill a week later from NAV Canada so I kept going. What a great experience ! I wish we could cross the border. Greatly limits where we can go right now....

 

[milojevicp]

A great venture out Tony! I trust they gave you time for the jet vortexes to subside after the landing of the 767 an hour before!
All the best,
Pete

 

[N1049j]

So tony is GA flights to and from Canada not allowed these days.

 

[buchan]

The Canada/US border is basically closed to all non-essential travel in both directions for at least another month.

I don't know of anyone who has tried, so I am not sure how this is being handled at airports, but if you do come into Canada, there is a 14 day quarantine period required.

Don

 

[plight]

Tony,

Very cool video. Once in a life time.

 

[gmores]

Very nice Tony.

What are you using for a camera? You've got yours mounted about where I'm thinking of installing a mount for my Hero 4.

 

[proppilot]

Glenn, it is a Garmin VIRB Elite. Not very good in the low light that I was in but did the job