Final day in Canada

Dual DA40-180 XLS training

With all the baggage and clobber removed the day before, it was time for Johnny to get some landing practice
But it was not to be... The Lower Mainland is full of students from India and China, and other Asian countries all doing thei commercial pilot training. I wrote "Madness" on my notepad.
Mr Trump has not made it easy for foreigners, and nor has the American TSA, and so Canada has become a major country for training pilots.

Waste not, refused circuits everywhere, we climbed to do my favourite local tour: fly between the Golden Ears, and then over Widgeon Lake.
With such height gained above the training aeroplanes below we could do some turns, and stalls, and regain a feel for the aeroplane.
Johnny had an appointment in North Vancouver and so we could not be long.
We were able to do a touch and go at Pitt Meadows followed by a satisfactory landing back at Boundary Bay.

Lunch with Warwick at Victoria Flying Club

I still had many things to do, and I had a flight to catch, so what could I do in the time?
I had told Warwick that I would make every effort to see him, and so I decided to fly the Tomahawk to Victoria on Vancouver Island and have lunch with him.

It's an easy short flight from Boundary Bay to Victoria, it took 26 minutes in the air.

Victoria has a nice Asian cafe/restaurant so for a quick lunch we ate there.

Warwick wrote training books and exam preparation books for Transport Canada pilot licences and ratings.
He needs to renew his own licence, and I can do this for him, even in a UK registered aeroplane.
Since I have sold the Aircoupe I now need to rent an aeroplane somewhere.

It was good to renew my acquaintance with flying in BC.

Flying back to Heathrow.

Air Canada AC860 was more like the airline I had experienced before.
The windows were terribly scratched which means their maintenance is probably not to a very high standard.
Service on board was functional and impersonal... I did observe one minor discussion (argument?) between a Flight Attendant and a passenger. She apparently had not heard something the passenger had said, and she blamed it on the noise from the airvents.
The point was to get back to Heathrow, and the flight was a few minutes early arriving in spite of having to fly a few holds.