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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
Tall ships arriving in Toronto harbour right now!
#Toronto #Sailing
June 27, 2025 at 4:20 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
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
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
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