Columns by a Canadian centre controller

I have mixed feelings about Don Brown's columns on AvWeb -- sometimes I
learn from them, and sometimes they're just the same rants rehashed.

Today, I stumbled by accident on a series of online columns by a Michael
Oxner, a private pilot who works as a Canadian ACC controller at Moncton
Centre (formerly a tower controller in Halifax) -- a lot of the stuff will
be old hat to people with instrument ratings, but the columns are quite
readable. The funny thing is that he works as a controller in Moncton
Centre in real life, then goes home and plays as a controller in a virtual
Moncton Centre for the flight simulation community (I guess that Nav
Canada's shifts aren't nearly long enough for him).

Here is the list of his columns, for anyone interested:

http://bathursted.ccnb.nb.ca/vatcan/.../Archives.html

Here's the first one I stumbled upon, about flying IFR into airports without
instrument approaches:

http://bathursted.ccnb.nb.ca/vatcan/...rentTopic.html


All the best,


David