Canada has a network of 55 Flight Service Stations (FSS) and eight (8) Flight Information Centres providing invaluable assistance to pilots, weather information and remote air traffic advisories at select locations where there is no control tower.
There are 23 Flight Service Stations in Canada that – in addition to providing flight information services on site – provide Remote Aerodrome Advisory Services (RAAS) to a total of 38 sites.
Thunder Bay International Airport in Ontario, for instance, has both an air traffic control tower and a Flight Service Station. The Flight Service Station provides Remote Aerodrome Advisory Services to Pickle Lake, Ontario (CYPL) and Island Lake, Manitoba (CYIV), in addition to providing weather observations at Thunder Bay, and flight information services locally overnight when the tower is closed.
In terms of straight Remote Communications Outlets (RCOs), there are 206 “domestic” RCOs and nine (9) “international” RCOs (used by Gander IFSS).
