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best times to find controllers online


Bruce Morrow 953779
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Bruce Morrow 953779
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Are there best times to find canadian controllers online, particularly in Ontario as this is my home province, or does one simply have to take their chances?

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Paul Heaney 879309
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Prime time for the Local aera you are looking for is mainly your best bet. However, you'll sometimes find controllers online at strange times. All depends on when they have time to work the scope.

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Victor Sussman 911965
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To add to Paul's comment,

 

Toronto FIR has traditionally had an event 'Toronto Thursdays.'

 

Since I generally cannot fly during the week, I've not had the pleasure of participating in that event (though I've flown in and enjoyed CZYZ airspace on many other occasions.)

 

Other than that, yeah -- just keep an eye on ServInfo.

 

Friday evenings and weekends are often good times to catch controllers too, though you have to just take your chances.

 

You might also want to pay a visit to the Toronto FIR site: http://www.czyzfir.com where you can keep up on happenings or more generally you might wish to visit VATCAN's site at http://www.vatcan.org.

 

However, as I don't know where in Ontario you are located your local area might in fact be under CZWG (Winnipeg), for example, if you are in the Thunder Bay area.

 

CZWG's 'day' is Wednesdays and you can visit their site at http://bathursted.ccnb.nb.ca/vatcan/fir/winnipeg/index.htm.

 

Have fun!

Victor Sussman, VAC061

Virtual Air Canada

http://www.vacanada.org

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Victor Sussman, CDN115

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http://www.flycav.com

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VATCAN P1

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Matthew Horan 901577
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& of course some major areas in the US are lite up every night!

 

 

For my own FIR, its Monday night..

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