i was the flight engineer on a c 119 we were based at niagara falls arb new york,,,we left feb 1960,,,about 2 hours from edmonton we had a engine fire,,we landed at beatton river air strip,,it was snow packed,,we spend about a week repairing the engine,,,we returned back to rcaf edmonton and did some more engine work,,after that we contined on to ladd afb alaska,,,,smgt william mcdougall mcd14131@comcast.net
Mule Creek is a 4000X75 emergency grass strip. It is littered with gofer holes, but usable for bush planes. The Haines highway gets socked in quite a bit, so it is nice to have this option.
Luggage retrieval is the absolutely worst of ANY airport in the world. We have waited over 40 minutes and still no luggage . In any other airport and I have travelled the world luggage is available within 20 minutes . In Winnipeg it was there by the time we arrived at the carousel. What is the problem in Vancouver. You are advertising good new things coming to YVR I suggest better faster baggage handling
Coming back from abroad, standing in avery long line with over a hundred people ahead of me. The new system is very insufficient and slow. Multiple airport clerks walking around looking busy doing nothing. It feels like an international airport was not ready to receive multiple flights.
Your points are correct only to a degree - you exaggerate on every item presented. As one who uses taxis at YVR regularly, I have only once had a delay in the past year. I do agree that the airport could do with more taxis available especially with late evening arrivals.
I’ve been through at least 40 airports, all over the world.
YVR has some of the nicest washrooms, but with the poorest cleaning. I’ve been through here multiple times, and rarely seen anything different. Urinals that haven’t been cleaned under since.... well... who knows when. Paper dispensers empty. Usually more than half. Garbage chutes overflowing. No soap in the fancy automatic dispensers. Unwashed floors.
I just used one that had been cleaned in the last half hour( so the paper says), and EVERY urinal had a dirty floor under it.
Where’s the quality control? Is there a manager actually checking?
I have not found much information on this airport other than it seems to be an abandoned location sometime in the 1960s. The Smith River airport holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in British Columbia (recorded in 1947).
I dont have a lot of information however just found out my grandfather ran the heavy duty cat to build the strip at war time. Is there any signs of the airstrip left. I would like to bring my teen to it for family history maybe in 2018.
There are so many people that could benefit from using that easy boy style pay for use massage chairs not everyone has the time or the money to go to the spa was and people would really be able to benefit from this it's a no cost item the chairs pay for themselves if not make you a profit
Please in sure that these chairs are placed in all departure lounge is not just a long distance halls
I would like to suggest that YVR move the smoking area which is too close to the taxi line. Currently standing 20 deep (further to the previous comment) and it feels like we are breathing smoke directly from a cigarette. It isn't even windy. This is not acceptable.
Now to the lineup. How is it that there is a lot full of taxis and a lineup with NO cars in sight. This is a pattern that needs correcting.
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re: (no subject)
🔗 Mon, 22 May 2023
— @Bill35 at Mule Creek Airport, Canada
Marker has been moved.
(no subject)
🔗 Thu, 07 Jul 2022
— @Jackoffinmeykuh at Streatham Reef Hueston Airfield, Canada
Amazing Airport loved the staff
Prior Permission Required
🔗 Thu, 07 Apr 2022
— @KingdomGIS at Victoria Harbour Seaplane Base, Canada
https://tc.canada.ca/en/marine-transportation/ports-harbours-anchorages/public-port-victoria-traffic-scheme
Repurposed!
🔗 Fri, 18 Feb 2022
— @animebirder at Hastings Field Heliport, Canada
Hastings Field is no longer an active airstrip ... for fixed wing craft. There's a pretty shiny looking heliport there now though!
Home of the Vernon Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Vernon Regional Airport, Canada
http://www.vernonflyingclub.org/
Home of the Vanderhoof Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Vanderhoof Airport, Canada
https://www.vanflyingclub.ca/
Home of the Squamish Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Squamish Airport, Canada
https://squamishflyingclub.com/
Home of the Salmon Arm Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Shuswap Regional Airport, Canada
http://salmonarmflyingclub.com/
Home of the Qualicum Beach Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Qualicum Beach Airport, Canada
https://qbflyingclub.ca/
Home of the Penticton Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Penticton Airport, Canada
https://www.pentictonflyingclubcopafifty.com/
Home of the Pemberton Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Pemberton Regional Airport, Canada
http://www.pembertonflyingclub.ca/
Home of the Langley Aero Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Langley Airport, Canada
http://www.langleyaeroclub.ca/
Home of the Kitimat Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Kitimat Airport, Canada
https://www.kitimatflyingclub.ca/
Home of the Kootenay Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, Canada
http://kootenayflyingclub.weebly.com/index.html
Home of the Kelowna Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Kelowna International Airport, Canada
https://kelownaflyingclub.com/
Home to the Kamloops Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Kamloops John Moose Fulton Field Regional Airport, Canada
https://kamloopsflyingclub.com/
Home to the Elphinstone Aero Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Sechelt-Gibsons Airport, Canada
https://www.elphinstoneaero.club/
Home of the Duncan Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Duncan Airport, Canada
https://duncanflyingclub.com/
Home of the Alberni Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Alberni Valley Regional Airport, Canada
http://alberniflyingclub.blogspot.com/
Home of the Aero Club of BC
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Pitt Meadows Airport, Canada
https://www.aeroclubofbc.ca/
Home of the Abbotsford Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Abbotsford International Airport, Canada
http://www.abbotsfordflyingclub.ca/
Home of the Nanaimo Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Nanaimo Airport, Canada
http://www.nanaimoflyingclub.org/
Home of the Pacific Flying Club
🔗 Sun, 09 Jan 2022
— @david at Boundary Bay Airport, Canada
https://pacificflying.com/
My Experience
🔗 Thu, 15 Apr 2021
— @NYANWT at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
Very Nice Airport, Just The Taxis And Luggage Are Areas They NEED To Improve On
322573 Typo in field "municipality"
🔗 Fri, 10 Jul 2020
— @ripat at Boat Bluff Lighthouse Helipad, Canada
- Sarah Isalnd
+ Sarah Island
NDB 2J 250 kHz Decommissioned?
🔗 Sat, 03 Aug 2019
— Anonymous Flyer at Grand Forks Airport, Canada
Last log of 2J Sep18 - not on Skyvector
Runway numbers
🔗 Thu, 20 Jun 2019
— Anonymous Flyer at Victoria International Airport, Canada
Just as an update, cyyj runway 13/31 has been changed to runway 14/32 as of 3 yrs ago
c 119 usaf flying box car feb 1960
🔗 Thu, 10 Jan 2019
— Anonymous Flyer at Beatton River Airport, Canada
i was the flight engineer on a c 119 we were based at niagara falls arb new york,,,we left feb 1960,,,about 2 hours from edmonton we had a engine fire,,we landed at beatton river air strip,,it was snow packed,,we spend about a week repairing the engine,,,we returned back to rcaf edmonton and did some more engine work,,after that we contined on to ladd afb alaska,,,,smgt william mcdougall mcd14131@comcast.net
Float plane from Vancouver to Harrison
🔗 Tue, 23 Oct 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Harrison Hot Springs Seaplane Base, Canada
Is it possible to fly by float plane from Vancouver to Harrison Hot Springs?
Tipella
🔗 Mon, 06 Aug 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Tipella Airport, Canada
PPR. May find obstructions on strip. Share'with road traffic, logging trucks etc.
Taxis
🔗 Fri, 29 Jun 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
YVR taxi waits are ridiculous There are taxis waiting but they can’t gat them to the terminal. It’s complete chaos and incompetence
(no subject)
🔗 Sun, 03 Jun 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Mule Creek Airport, Canada
P.S. The marker is a half mile north west of the actual airstrip.
Mule Creek
🔗 Sun, 03 Jun 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Mule Creek Airport, Canada
Mule Creek is a 4000X75 emergency grass strip. It is littered with gofer holes, but usable for bush planes. The Haines highway gets socked in quite a bit, so it is nice to have this option.
Luggage
🔗 Sat, 24 Feb 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
Luggage retrieval is the absolutely worst of ANY airport in the world. We have waited over 40 minutes and still no luggage . In any other airport and I have travelled the world luggage is available within 20 minutes . In Winnipeg it was there by the time we arrived at the carousel. What is the problem in Vancouver. You are advertising good new things coming to YVR I suggest better faster baggage handling
Passport control
🔗 Sat, 03 Feb 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
Coming back from abroad, standing in avery long line with over a hundred people ahead of me. The new system is very insufficient and slow. Multiple airport clerks walking around looking busy doing nothing. It feels like an international airport was not ready to receive multiple flights.
Tv subtitles in french
🔗 Thu, 25 Jan 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
Don't get why all TV in westjet A-D is all in french..i. understand French is applicable.. but ALL tv's
re: re: Why no Uber or Lyft?
🔗 Tue, 02 Jan 2018
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
Your points are correct only to a degree - you exaggerate on every item presented. As one who uses taxis at YVR regularly, I have only once had a delay in the past year. I do agree that the airport could do with more taxis available especially with late evening arrivals.
Why no Uber or Lyft?
🔗 Sat, 30 Dec 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
Lineups for taxis- but no taxis.....
Lots full of taxis- but none for patrons......
If you can get a cab, you are often refused a ride because “I don’t go there”.....
Why no Uber or Lyft? It might smarten up the rip off taxi companies.
Can’t you clean?
🔗 Sat, 30 Dec 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
I’ve been through at least 40 airports, all over the world.
YVR has some of the nicest washrooms, but with the poorest cleaning. I’ve been through here multiple times, and rarely seen anything different. Urinals that haven’t been cleaned under since.... well... who knows when. Paper dispensers empty. Usually more than half. Garbage chutes overflowing. No soap in the fancy automatic dispensers. Unwashed floors.
I just used one that had been cleaned in the last half hour( so the paper says), and EVERY urinal had a dirty floor under it.
Where’s the quality control? Is there a manager actually checking?
Sheesh- can’t this beautiful airport do better?
(no subject)
🔗 Sat, 30 Dec 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Comox Valley Airport / CFB Comox, Canada
It’s also a afb
(no subject)
🔗 Thu, 28 Dec 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Tatla Lake Airport, Canada
This air strip still exists and is used by private planes, even though it's not official maintained.
(no subject)
🔗 Thu, 28 Dec 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Smith River Airport, Canada
I have not found much information on this airport other than it seems to be an abandoned location sometime in the 1960s. The Smith River airport holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in British Columbia (recorded in 1947).
It's winter, you need to de-ice aircraft!
🔗 Tue, 19 Dec 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
Man you kids are dropping the ball!
Who is incharge of this debacle called YVR?
3 hours into a 5 hour flight cause you clowns can't have enough de-icing equipment to service your airport!
My 5 hour flight is now going to be at least a 9 if not a 10 hour flight.
Get your act together and stop this amature hour.
Building of the runway.
🔗 Sat, 18 Nov 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Dog Creek Airport, Canada
I dont have a lot of information however just found out my grandfather ran the heavy duty cat to build the strip at war time. Is there any signs of the airstrip left. I would like to bring my teen to it for family history maybe in 2018.
Shuswap Regional Airport (YSN/CZAM)
🔗 Sat, 14 Oct 2017
— @czbbflier at Shuswap Regional Airport, Canada
How and why Salmon Arm's airport got two very different codes beats me considering how consistent Canadian codes are.
Chalk it up to being Salmon Arm, I guess.
Massage Chairs needed in all departure lounges
🔗 Fri, 01 Sep 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
There are so many people that could benefit from using that easy boy style pay for use massage chairs not everyone has the time or the money to go to the spa was and people would really be able to benefit from this it's a no cost item the chairs pay for themselves if not make you a profit
Please in sure that these chairs are placed in all departure lounge is not just a long distance halls
Wrong iata code assigned
🔗 Tue, 01 Aug 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Mackenzie Airport, Canada
CITY NAME 3-LETTER CITY CODE AIRPORT NAME 3-LETTER AIRPORT CODE
Zhangye YZY Ganzhou YZY
YZY is for zhangye
OPEN TOO VISITORS??
🔗 Tue, 11 Jul 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Intergalactic Aerodrome, Canada
I was wondering if visitors are welcome?
Taxi lineup and smoking area
🔗 Mon, 03 Jul 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
I would like to suggest that YVR move the smoking area which is too close to the taxi line. Currently standing 20 deep (further to the previous comment) and it feels like we are breathing smoke directly from a cigarette. It isn't even windy. This is not acceptable.
Now to the lineup. How is it that there is a lot full of taxis and a lineup with NO cars in sight. This is a pattern that needs correcting.
Taxi's
🔗 Sun, 05 Mar 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Vancouver International Airport, Canada
The YVR department for controlling taxi cabs coming to pick up travelers at the airport should all be let go!
20 minute wait line! 60 people in line! No taxi cabs!
There are 300 to 400 taxi cabs in a holding area but no one is calling them.
World class airport with no taxi service.
Total BS
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