This is sort of mundane, but I've always wondered about something. Reg, I notice that you show your airplane as CF-YIL, but Transport Canada lists it as C-FYIL. I come across this all the time, and I'm wondering about the placement of the dash.
I'm sure you don't use the dash in your radio calls, so what's it doing there? Why sometimes after the C and other times after the CF? Does the F stand for French Canada or something like that?
Maybe CF was the original international ID for Canadian registered airplanes, later shortened to just C?
I have to admit being equally baffled by the Canadian postal code system, but that is a subject for a different time.
