See this picture
I took it on today’s afternoon from a spot inside the Concourse D by the Gate 33, as we were anxiously waiting for a Horizon Air Flight 2233 final call.
Soon it became obvious there’s no chance to get on this flight as the ’stand-by travelers’, - it was totally packed, so we left the air side, listed ourselves for an early morning flight, and went back home.
Attempt #1 failed.
Our Russian friends are leaving Calgary tomorrow.
We are so happy they liked this part of Alberta, - sure, how wouldn’t they? - and also, it seemed they wanted to learn more about both - the province and the whole country. Obviously, being overwhelmed with information, they’ve sort of ‘put themselves at risk of being ’swept away with an avalanche of all kind of new stuff’ 
My friend Max, an Aeroflot 767 pilot, and his wife Lilya came to visit us for a few days.
We spent the whole Monday exploring Canadian hallmarks located in Banff National park, such as Lake Louise, Peyto Lake. It seems our guests enjoyed the tour. They said ‘the look of everything they saw was very refreshing’. I bet it should be, - nothing common with Moscow ‘urban landscape’ 
Rockies welcomed them with a beautiful day too. We are planning a tour in the Calary downtown for tomorrow.
Will Max want to see WestJet?.. Hmm, should ask him
At last I’ve made a ‘debut flight’ to Charlottetown. I’ve heard about the place quite a bit - from fellow WJ pilots familiar with Atlantic Canada, from my Flickr contact ‘Mabel&Charlotte.
I also flew over, at around 40.000 feet, but never did a one trip ‘with landing’ at YYG.
And it happened yesterday!
(I’ll post more pictures from this trip)
Let it be the ‘Mountain Flying Guide’: here’s just a quick tour at 39-40 thousand feet over the Rockies
It was such a beautiful day today, and Rockies were showing off in all their beauty as we shuttled back and forth betwen Edmonton and Vancouver
So, if you lost your bearings - use this pole, track yourself down on the map. You may find it would also be a good spot for various kinds of ‘fresh starts’ I tell you, come to Newfoundland, regain your connections with the world, and start over again!
Them guys in Newfoundland seem to know how to found and settle life on the solid rock.
Darn! - just unable be ‘too serious’: when I was writing previous post on the topic of ‘Boeing in Russia’ it happened to me again: at some point I ‘had given in’ and deviated from a ’serious tone’, and, instead of giving some ‘facts and figures’ to the audience of visitors that probably wanted to see them in order to find out if there’s any proof of an ‘allegedly growing Boeing’s presence in Russia’, I began to talk about planes’ names, and making fun of ‘Boeing the Pushkin’… Well, isn’t it a good proof ?
But today I recalled one recent episode, and it came to me I should share it ‘to top up’ the topic. It is about another plane bearing a really funny name
There were no hurricanes visible in the West Coast of Mexico as we plowed at 40 thousand feet across the country towards our destination San Jose del Cabo on the Southern tip of Baja California peninsula, and then back heading to Toronto.
But it was apparent the energy accumulated in atmosphere wanted to be released somehow, so once in a while we needed a bit of maneuvering around ‘air mass thunderstorms’, - the bug puffy clouds scattered ‘here and there’ across large swathes of land surface.
‘Hey! Look at that!’, I exclaimed in a surprise when we noticed this aircraft at Oshkosh Seaplane Base. A few days ago we saw it having just come from Yellowknife, NWT, to Red Lake, Ontario.
We saw Beech-18 on floats in four places during our trip to Red Lake-Oshkosh.
Of course, an encounter with the first one was very exciting. We met it in Red Lake, and it belonged to Chimo Air, a local charter company. I took a nice opportunity to walk ‘half-around’ this antique bird, C-FHZA, - sure, that’s the way - you can only do half around it, - unless you have a boat, or just jump into the water to finish full ‘half-walk-half-swim around’ the docked floatplane
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