2021-10-17

I made my dear wife swear at me, I didn't mean to.

I didn't mean to get that response,  it was just a guess response to the sound I was hearing.

After a nice dinner at home, relaxing and chatting with a candle between us, when I hear a jet pass over our building.  Not quite the normal sound, more rumble than the normal, almost like it was a 4 engine heavy.  I guessed out loud that perhaps it was a Cathay Pacific cargo 747 from New York coming in to land.  My dear wife (DW) just has to look that one up on a Flight Tracker app, to see the jet in question.  The body language gave it away before some mild profanity was lobbed my way for getting it totally right.

Oh the fun one can have with an app like FlightRadar24 on one of your devices (aka HandBrains) , seeing what many of the planes flying around are.

Summers on the balcony would have a bit of plane spotting with a major path in and out of Toronto Person YYZ north of us.  Pre-pandemic we could sometimes see as many as 6 all lined up to landing on 23 and 24, perhaps seeing 8 in the sky at a time when you include helicopters such as Ornge (we can see the SunnyBrook landing pad) and general aviation private planes puttering around. So far since we've only seen a peak of 4 at a time, though I expect that will change soon enough.  Naturally this does not include air shows or other times the SnowBirds have flown by.  That particular Cathay Pacific flight had been noticed somewhat regularly during the summer evenings often enough.

There are also a few places and patios near the airport where we can watch the planes land and take off, where my DW will challenge me to identify the next plane coming by while she sees it on FlightRadar.  Much fun for those of us who love to watch aviation in action.