wrote:

Yes, including towered fields is the way I understand it. Transport
Canada AIM, Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Services, Instrument
Flight Rules - Departure Procedures, Section 5 Standard Instrument
Departure, page 233 (2006 AIM, more current avail on the net
somewhere). The text makes no reference to towered or non towered.
However the example immediately after the recommendation to include
runway of departure is "Ottawa departures, beech .....off runway 25,
heading 250....", and the towered field at Ottawa does in fact have a
runway 25. No direct recommendation to include heading given in the
AIP, except that the communication "should contain at least" the
callsign, r/w of dept, altitude at and climbing to.


Strange.



Another interesting difference, on the page before this, is the
clarification of "fly runway heading". "Runway 04, magnetic heading
044 deg, then fly a heading of 044 deg M"
The US regs would be to fly 040 deg M, IIRC.


Nope. From the current Pilot/Controller Glossary:


RUNWAY HEADING- The magnetic direction that corresponds with the runway
centerline extended, not
the painted runway number. When cleared to "fly or maintain runway heading,"
pilots are expected to fly or maintain the heading that corresponds with the
extended centerline of the departure runway. Drift correction shall not be
applied; e.g., Runway 4, actual magnetic heading of the runway centerline
044, fly 044.