Canadian Xpress July 2014 Challenge: Montreal Bull’s Eye
Canadian Xpress® is celebrating its 5th year of operations next month. Part of those celebrations will be the launch of a new aircraft, along with a tour/challenge that will run over the course of 10 months using that new aircraft.
The challenge this month is simple, report to Canadian Xpress® head office in Montreal for the unveiling of our 5th year celebrations using a bull’s eyes flight.
What’s a bull’s eye flight? It’s simple, Montreal is the bull’s eye but you can start from where ever you want with any Canadian Xpress® aircraft that you have the rank to fly as long as that aircraft is rated to operate at CYUL on a minimum 90 minute flight.
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Canadian Xpress Stanley Cup Champions Tour
The Los Angeles Kings have won the Stanley Cup! The Canadian Xpress Stanley Cup Champions Tour which was submitted by Matt Gaboriault (CXA729) will carry the Stanley Cup along with each Los Angeles Kings player to his hometown along with some family members & friends.
The Stanley Cup Champions Tour consists of 23 legs that must be flown in order.
All Canadian Xpress pilots that successfully complete the tour will receive 25 bonus hours as well as the Canadian Xpress Stanley Cup Champions Tour Award.
Join Canadian Xpress today by visiting http://CanadianXpress.ca and fly the Stanley Cup Champions Tour!
*Canadian Xpress accepts 50% of your VATSIM, IVAO or other virtual airline hours with no limits.
Canadian Xpress June Fly-In – Summer Solstice
Summer is here. For those of us in the south, we have been enjoying the warm weather for a few weeks now. Cottages are open, boats are in the water, and motorcycles are filling the road ways. However, the day still ends sometime between 8:30 & 9:00pm when the sun finally sets below the horizon.
This isn’t the case for everyone. Canada’s Northern Territories and Alaska, the first day of summer is the peak of all day sunlight as the sun never sets in some places. Wouldn’t it be great to go golfing at 1:00am with the sun still high in the sky?
This month we celebrate the peak of 24 hour sunlight in the north with a trip to Ketchikan Alaska on the Summer Solstice
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Canadian Xpress June 2014 Challenge – Dangerous Airport I
This month, we begin our Dangerous Approaches tour. These next few events will take you on some of the most dangerous approaches and airports in the world. These events will become part of a new tour later on this year.
Our first stop will be Toronto’s Billy Bishop City Centre Airport, following a real world flight of Porter Airlines. One may not see Toronto City Centre as a dangerous airport. However, when you realize its approach path takes you into and then below one of the busiest airspaces in Canada. Toronto City Center is located on an island next to the downtown core of Canada’s largest city. Land long on this runway and you’re going to get more than your feet wet.
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Canadian Xpress May Fly-In – Mount St. Helens
On May 18th, 1980 at 8:32pst, Mount St. Helens after 2 months of increased seismic activity, catastrophically erupted. The eruption triggered an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale causing the North face to collapse into the Columbia River basin and reducing the mountain’s summit elevation from 9,677 ft to 8,365 ft.
By 17:30pst that evening after more than 9 hours of a vigorous plume of ash, reaching 16 miles above seas level, the ash column began to decline. On that day 34 years ago this month, Mount St. Helens released 24 megatons of thermal energy, 1.5 tons of sulfur dioxide and 2.8 cubic kilometers of debris. Sadly the event also killed 57 people, and nearly 7000 big game animals from the mountain area.
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Canadian Xpress April Fly-In – Concorde
45 years ago, on March 2, 1967 Concorde made its first test flight. It took thousands of hours of testing with 2 prototype models and 7 years to gain type certification of the Concorde.
On April 10th 1976, Air France made its first commercial passenger flight with Concorde. That first flight took passengers from Paris to Rio via the Azores which later changing to Dakar. The stop in the Azores was needed so that Concorde could refuel. The aircraft used an astonishing 2 tons of fuel just to taxi to the runway (2% of its total fuel load) in Paris. Normal operations called for the two inboard engines to be shut down as the aircraft exited the runway after landing, to help save on fuel cost. In 2003 BA and Air France both announced they would stop flying the Concorde after 27 years of service. Lots of reason still float around today as to why it was retired. But truth be told, it was simply due to cost. The Concorde was Continue reading
Canadian Xpress April 2014 Challenge – Easter Egg Hunt
This month is about FlightSim Easter Eggs. What is an FS Easter Egg you might ask? Easter Eggs in the computer software world are little hidden secrets developers write in to their software to give you a little shock and surprise should you find them. Easter Eggs have been in FlightSim since the early days back as far as FS4. Where the Prudential sign on One Prudential Plaza in downtown Chicago, would light up as the sun set. FS2000 added more Easter Eggs, like the tethered weather blimp 14,000 feet above the Florida Keys. Some of these Easter Eggs are very time specific, where others can be seen at any time.
For this month’s challenge we are going back in time, back to 1983 to see the Kilauea volcano eruption. The volcano is still erupting today, but the main eruption happened on Continue reading
