Air Traffic Control Flight Plan Instrument Landing System 
Ask Captain Lim
JULY 13, 2025
Pre-Flight Routine A pilot’s day begins long before take-off. Depending on the flight schedule, they might start in the early hours of the morning or late at night. At cruising altitude, the flight may feel effortless, but pilots remain vigilant. Landing is the most skill-intensive part. While rare, emergencies do happen.
Air Facts
MAY 7, 2025
The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. It was common practice for tower controllers to monitor the area control centre enroute frequency. It was a winter night shift in a Western Ontario air traffic control tower.
Ask the Pilot
JUNE 28, 2024
The pilots, the flight attendants, and their aircraft were dispatched, flight-planned, and fueled for a trip to Edinburgh. In addition to whatever human errors catalyze such events, weather and air traffic control (ATC), to name two, can lend a hand in getting from point A to, as it were, point C.
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