1) On many but not all of those foggy days, Pearson is also fog bound. I work at Pearson and can tell you that the shoreline does a very poor job of keeping fog away from Pearson.

2) The RECOMMENDED 300 Meter safety zone you would like to see at the TCCA is also missing from many runways in the rest of the land locked airports in Canada - including some runways at Pearson. I still maintain that if a Pilot overruns Runway 06L at Pearson, they will come to rest on HWY427 while if a Pilot overruns Runway 08 at the TCCA, they will be in relatively shallow water. Doesn't take much effort to see which one is more dangerous. By the way, Pearson does not have any cautions about busy highways (401 & 427) on 2 sides of the airport. Should they?

3) Tallying up pilot cautions is a nice fear mongering tactic but as stated in #2, some airports have inherent dangerous factors that are not even mentioned. It is all about liability and at some point, logic and reality dictate that a pilot will not intentionally fly into something that they are aware of and can see.

4)I don't believe I have argued that "An airport’s location and features which force pilots to act with the greatest caution do not contribute to air safety." However, I will say that ALL factors are taken into account when limits for instrument approaches are determined. This means that at the TCCA, pilots must have the runway environment in sight prior to reaching a specified altitude and distance from the airport. This specified point allows pilots to complete their landings visually thus avoiding any obstacles between them and the runway. For comparison and relativity, at Pearson, pilots on approach to runway 06L might only see the runway AFTER the aircraft has touched down since the limits allow this. At the TCCA, a pilot must have visual contact from a point that is much further up and away from the airport, thus making the TCCA approach safer since pilots make decisions on whether or not to land from a point that is further away. There are more overshoots at the TCCA because the limits are higher on the approaches. To compare overshoot numbers between airports is apples and Asparagus since limits vary from airport to airport. You oversimplify the argument to prove a point that is much more complicated and contingent on many factors.

Mr. Kotyk, The TCCA, along with just about every airport in Canada have issues that need to be addressed. If you examined every aspect of your life with the level of scrutiny you apply to the TCCA, you would likely find some areas that require attention. These points don't absolve the government or airport operators from fixing what is wrong with our airports but they only serve to remind us that we could likely take issue with just about everything we encounter in day to day life.

Take Care.
Joe