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Mark Brooks
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Canadian Freelance flight instructor and grandpa.
Zipping past downtown Toronto yesterday at 2000ft.
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Winter in Canada is awesome if you like shoveling snow! Spent a live time refining the “chaos method” of shoveling the driveway, 12 minutes today. Used a DjI Mini 5 to film the hyper lapse and video leap to edit and add licensed music (Whimsical Christmas Forest) #Snow #Toronto #Driveway
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A shot of Toronto Billy Bishop showing the new #YTZ hashtag on the field.
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Mosport (official name: Canadian Tire Motorsport race track) on the east edge of Durham region just north of Bowmanville. Picture taken oct 5th (Sunday morning) looking east.
October 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Tall ships arriving in Toronto harbour right now!
#Toronto #Sailing
June 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Ontario provincial election is this Thursday, Feb 27th. Get out and vote! #Vote #Ontpoli #Cdnpoli
February 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
On approach to Runway 26 at Waterloo airport. Teaching in a DA40. #aviation #pilot
January 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
On approach to Runway 26 at Torontos famous Billy Bishop airport last night. This view never gets old. #aviation #Pilot
January 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Today Oshawa airport lived up to its reputation as a coyote paradise. #durhamregion
January 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is what 1 hour of flying a Canadian CL415 Water-bomber fighting the LA fires looks like on FlightAware.
#Aviation #LAFire
January 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Like the start of a good horror movie, a thick fog has settled over Toronto.

I took the DJI neo out for a backwards walkabout to capture the ambiance.
#DronePhotography
December 29, 2024 at 5:04 PM
It looks like the Russian airforce shot down a passenger plane on Christmas morning.

An Embraer 190 of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near Aktau, its tail full of holes. Early reports that some of the 67 were rescued.
The Pilots died trying.

#aviationnews
#planecrash
December 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Merry Christmas 🎄 & Happy Hanukkah 🕎
May your holidays be filled with friends, family and good food!

Peace on earth, good will to all.

#MerryChristmas #DJINero #drone
December 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Insurance scams are older than you may think. In 1943 Some joker filed an insurance claim when a Mosquito hit his car windshield.
December 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Fun Tecnam Gran Lusso fact: Was burning only 0.6 gallons an hour of JetA waiting in line to takeoff at Oshawa airport today.
December 20, 2024 at 12:46 AM
It is -25C in Austin this Morning!
December 18, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Sunday, December 15 video of the last airworthy MARS Water bomber flying with only 3 engines near Victoria British Columbia Canada. #aviation
December 16, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Apparently This is was strongest high pressure system ever recorded in Ontario. #Weather #Canada #records
December 15, 2024 at 3:18 AM
High pressure system over Ontario, 30.92 inches mercury!
So if you forget to reset your altimeter before takeoff it will be reading 1000 ft off! #aviation #Ontario #Weather
December 14, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Some pictures taken with my DJI mini 2 drone last fall at a Canadian Food grains bank event. Volunteers harvested a field of grain in Manitoba to feed the poor and hungry.
A great cause that you can help with a Christmas donation today! #Charity
foodgrainsbank.ca
December 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Into Oshawa last night before the snow hit. You can see the improved LED runway lights and PAPIs on runway 30 miles away ( installed in 2017). #Avgeek #Pilots #aviation #Canada
December 4, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Cruising past a ski hill near Grandfather mountain South Carolina. #aviation #Ski
December 2, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Torontos port redevelopment is looking great! Complete with a new path for the rouge river including green space and new bridges. #Toronto #Ports OK so let me go putting water in. It ran out of water.
November 29, 2024 at 10:13 PM
From August to November of this year I watched the demolition of part of Ontario Place while teaching out of Toronto Billy Bishop Airport. I assembled a few photos to capture the historic event. #Toronto #Ontario #Canada
November 23, 2024 at 9:49 PM
A rainy cold day in Toronto with the occasional snow squall.
But good news, Billy Bishop Airport is running like a swiss clock and the mosquitoes are frozen until spring!
#Toronto #Canada
November 22, 2024 at 1:36 AM