Bromont Airport

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An Ask 21 Sailplane turnig to final for grass landing runway 23L parallel to the tarmac runway 23R of Bromont airport

Bromont Airport (IATA: ZBM, ICAO: CZBM) is located 3.4 nautical miles (6.30 km) west southwest of Bromont, Quebec, Canada. Traffic at Bromont Airport is represented mainly by small single engine aircraft, jets and big aircraft are not seen everyday. No scheduled flights of any sort depart from Bromont, nor arrive. It should be the ideal place for sporty aviation, there is a school that operates two classic light single engine aircraft (Cessna 150 and Piper Cherokee). The Canadian Air Cadets fly two time tested (Schweizer 2-33) gliders with one tow plane (Cessna L-19) during a spring and late summer camp. A commercial aircraft maintenance also operates in ZBM. The ACE Glider Club is based at Bromont Airport, glider and soaring flight operations normally span from April to October. Glider flight operations take place only from the grass runway and are frequently canceled because of wet and muddy, therefore unsafe conditions of the grass runway. It is not permitted in ZBM to operate gliders on the 23R runway. However during spring 2007 works started for the condtruction of a 2000 feet long 25 feet wide asphalt runway that will permit optimum glider operations. Gliders will be able to take off behind tow from the new runway and land on grass, after landing glider will be in positions for the next take off. The last decades of the century have seen a progressive decline of private pilot flights and a decreasing number of small aircraft. The fleet of this region is aging and very few new aircraft are seen. This is because of the increasing cost. The possibility to fly ultralight, hang gliders and paragliders attracts many flight enthusiast.

From Bromont Airport it is possible to soar the cold front wave, when the meteorological conditions are favorable, with a good performance sailplane, it is possible to get airborne and get into a steady lift of more than 500 feet per minute, over very wide areas. With such condition one can fly a glider straight at speed over 180 km/h without loosing altitude, making sure not to exceed maximun rough air speed limits in such conditions.

Bromont Airport cold front wave is very predictable, the special meteorological pattern can be spotted before 1200 UTC time, and it repeats itself 63 percent of the times with onsetting cold fronts

[edit] References

• Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 15 March 2007 to 0901Z 10 May 2007.

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