This day, enroute to Ch’town , we took off from rwy 24L. Looking at the giant numbers painted on the runway, I marvelled at how I now know that means that the runway is heading more or less west, “24” indicating 240 degrees. And that I noticed the hold short lines on the taxiways we just taxied along. And that I noticed that another airplane coming in for a landing as we awaited take off clearance seemed kind of high on short final.
As we climbed out and turned to head east along the shoreline, I noticed -- albeit from a considerably higher altitude -- some of the landmarks we use when leaving CYTZ in a 150. Fun!
When we first got onto the plane, the Westjet captain came out and told us a bit about the flight ahead. Among other things, he shared that it would be a little bumpy until we got above the clouds. Thinking of the scattered ceiling of cumulous clouds I had seen in the sky earlier that day, I thought, “hey, I knew that!”
What fun it is to fly once you have abetter appreciation of some of the secrets of aviation! :-)