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THE PATRICIAN SEPTEMBER 2013

The Victoria Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946

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THE PATRICIAN SEPTEMBER 2013

Monthly Newsletter of The Victoria Flying Club - Aviation Excellence Since 1946 “To promote flying and aviation in general, and to teach and train persons in the art and science of flying and navigating and operating all manner of heavier-than-air aircraft.”

(Victoria Flying Club Incorporation Bylaws, 1946)

In This Issue

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Board of Directors President.........................................Don Devenney Vice President...........................Ramona Reynolds Secretary......................................Colin Williamson Treasurer...........................................Wayne Clifton Directors..........................................Dave Gagliardi Steve Demy Dave Gustafson Cal Mjolsness General Manager.................................Gerry Mants Chief Flying Instructor....................Graham Palmer

1852 Canso Road Sidney, BC V8L 5V5

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VFC Alumni

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Air Cadet Power Scholarship Graduation

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Selling Your Family on Flying

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Gettin’ There: Port Alberni

www.flyvfc.com info@flyvfc.com Phone: 250-656-2833 Fax: 250-655-0910 Editor: Christie Hall thepatrician@shaw.ca Midnight Design & Communication info@midnightdesign.ca

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The opinions expressed are strictly those of the authors.

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News from VFC

VFC News

Victoria Flying Club Quiet Hour Pricing – in effect June 1st to Sept 30th Day and Time

Discount Available (Choose One)

Monday to Friday 1700-0800

$10/hr rental discount

0.2 simulator time credit per hour of flight (approx value $20)

Saturday and Sunday

$15/hr rental discount

0.3 simulator time credit per hour of flight (approx value $30)

1700-0800

VFC Needs You!

Coming Soon...

We’re looking for four to eight VFC members to form a Social Committee. Our vision of the Social Committee is that they’ll be the ones who put together a variety of events for our members... guest speakers, movie nights, parties, etc... and work with the Board and VFC staff to make them happen. Ideally we’ll have a broad mix of ages and experiences on the committee so, student pilot or long time VFC veteran, we want you!

We’ve been receiving lots of feedback from our members and it has been really helpful for us as we plan ahead for future events and programs.

One of the things we are hearing is that there is a desire for more courses that will be helpful for our members, after they have completed their formal training. We currently developing some material, and will soon be offering a Co-Pilot’s course, a course on Flying to the US, and several more as well.

If you’re interested in participating please send an email to social@flyvfc.com and tell us a little about yourself. We will be in touch!

Dates and details will be made available soon. Watch The Patrician for more information, and register as soon as you can. We expect these seminars to fill up quickly!

Thanks, VFC Board of Directors

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VFC News

START YOUR CAREER IN AVIATION TODAY

WATCH YOUR FUTURE TAKE FLIGHT

Did you know....

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You can obtain your Private Pilot’s Licence from the Victoria Flying Club before you graduate highschool?

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Within two years of graduation, you can complete your Commercial Pilot’s Licence AND a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Victoria?

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Commercial flight training at VFC meets the requirements for the Canada Student Loans Program and StudentAid BC?

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Victoria Flying Club alumni are currently flying for international airlines, charter companies, and the military?

Your future is cleared for take off!

CAREER OPEN HOUSE SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 VICTORIA FLYING CLUB 11am-3pm 1852 CANSO RD. SIDNEY BC 250-656-2833 September 2013

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Aviation Events

FREE AIRPLANE FLIGHTS for kids from 8 to 17

Saturday, September 28, 2013 Viscount Aero Centre, Victoria International Airport (if Sept. 28th is raining, flights will be Sunday Sept. 29th)

With support from

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Pre-Registration Required For more information and to register, please visit

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...or email yyjcopaforkids@outlook.com ...or phone Bill at 250-882-3838 Brought to you by the pilots of COPA flight 6 – Victoria, to share our love of aviation with interested young people.

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VFC Alumni

VFC Alumni Are you a VFC Alumni currently employed in the aviation industry? We would love to hear from you!

Email a photo to thepatrician@shaw. ca with the following information...

1. Hometown 2. When you finished training at VFC 3. Your current position/aircraft

711 A Broughton Street

(street level, by Victoria Public Library)

Victoria BC V8W 1E2

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VFC Achievements

VFC MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS First Solos

New Members

Zachary Nicol Dean Wilson William Westlake Alexander Lansfield Marcel Fisher Colin Lake Colin Cochrane Tyler Sutherland Matija Ivaz Chad Wilton Jonathan Griffin Ben Hartman Roy Graham Paul Sutherland William Darling Christian Gronsdahl Bret LaMarsh Warren Baxter Shubham Kumar Eric Thiessen Linden Hoover

Jonathan Monahan Taylar Anderson Davies Russel Dubinsky Wendy Noel Allan Planes Jirawat Dendandome Alexander Allou

PPL Flight Test David Dyck Matt Sager Thomas Claes Tim Keis Brett Lang Sandy Wan Anne George Jeremy Fernandes Adan Thornton Andrew Chen Helena Mao Emily Ostapovich Nina Shan Shawn Carlow Douglas McLellan Joshua Sandford

PPL Written Exam Darren Cullen Douglas McLellan Romy Done Shawn Carlow Matt Sager Kyle Brown

PPL License

Tim Keis Brett Lang Sandy Wan Anne George Jeremy Fernandes Andrew Chen Helena Mao Emily Ostapovich Nina Shan

Multi Engine Flight Test

Jaber Almakhalas

Float Rating Kristen Ursel

VFC SMILE CARDS Pick up your smile card today at the VFC office, and 5% of your grocery purchase will go towards creating scholarships and awards for VFC members. Thank-you Thrifty Foods! To date, the Victoria Flying Club has received over $12,000 from

the Thrifty Foods Smile Card program. These funds have been appreciated by all members of the club. Thank-you Thrifty Foods!

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VFC News

Air Cadets

We want to offer our congratulations and best wishes to the graduates of the 2013 Power Pilot Scholarship program. Over the course of six weeks this summer, this group of young pilots worked hard alongside our Victoria Flying Club instructors and staff to earn their Private Pilot’s License and their pilot’s wings.

essays, and presentations. It is a competitive field, and we are pleased each year to meet the deserving scholarship recipients.

As these young pilots return to their home towns, they will take with them a collection of skills, memories, and experiences that will serve them well as they pursue their future goals, in aviation or otherwise. We are proud of these graduates, and wish them every success in their future endeavours!

Through the Air Cadet program, scholarship winners from across BC are selected through a process involving a lot of hard work, interviews, September 2013

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Mystery Aircraft

SEPTEMBER MYSTERY AIRCRAFT

Can you identify the aircraft shown here?

Email: thepatrician@shaw.ca August Mystery Identified From Tim: This month it’s the Northrop N-3PB of which 24 were built to meet a Norwegian Air Force requirement for maritime patrol aircraft in 1940/41. Six were based at RCAF Patricia Bay in the training role and the rest went to RAF 333 (Norwegian) Sqdn in Iceland.

Correctly identified by: Doug Chichak

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Feature Article

Selling Your Family On Flying ©1999, 2013 Gregory N. Brown

This article is from www.flighttraining.aopa.org.

Our thanks to Mr. Brown for allowing us to re-print and share it with our members. Happy flying to you and your families!

Your beaming family has just arrived at the airport for their first airplane ride with you as captain. The smiles on their faces, fueled by excitement and anticipation, will be surpassed only by the delight they feel after you have introduced them to the wonders of flight.

Every soon-to-be pilot has dreams like these, but that’s not always the way it goes.

Here you are, wrapping up your private pilot training, psyched about the upcoming adventure of flying with friends and family.

But as you get closer to realizing your dream, you discover that your family isn’t quite as enthusiastic as you might have hoped. Everyone is proud of your accomplishment. They just aren’t too comfortable with the idea of joining you for a flight.

Chances are your loved ones haven’t flown much, if ever, in light airplanes. Since you, the family’s proud new pilot, once dinged the family car, or can’t fix a broken sink, or sometimes forget to turn off the porch light before going to bed, family members worry that their new September 2013

aviator might not have, or, given your new-pilot inexperience, might not yet have, what it takes to be a skilled, safe pilot. Besides, they’ve heard about your travails during training, your struggle with crosswind landings, and the way you thought you were lost on your first cross-country. After all, you did earn your certificate only last week.

How Do We Encourage The People We Care About To Fly With Us? First we must be aware of the subliminal effects the stories and apprehensions that we share with our families during our training can have. Family members may not pay much attention to these comments at first, but as your checkride approaches, they begin subconsciously to note whether you seem confident or not. So be careful not to tell too many “There I was,” stories. Instead of being impressed by your bravery, your future passengers may become alarmed by how dangerous it all sounds.

One private pilot I know is married to a woman who is petrified of flying, but in a noble effort to share his enthusiasm, she flies with him anyway. That’s a wonder, because this guy makes even the most docile flight 9

sound like a life-or-death struggle with the elements and the airplane. Every flying story is peppered liberally with phrases like, “I barely maintained control,” and, “The controls were virtually ripped from my hand by the crosswind.”

Obviously this fellow wants to impress his audience with his masterful flying skills, but the effect has been to drive his family away from his favorite hobby and to scare friends out of ever joining him in an airplane.

Of course part of the fun of flying is sharing adventures and challenges along the way, but be careful how you embellish those tales. Be sure to include the happy outcomes, new skills, and increased confidence that resulted from those experiences. Don’t tell war stories in front of nonpilot friends and family!

It’s easy to see why a smooth first flight is so important, it gives passengers the confidence that they need to believe in you. You may get only one or two opportunities to introduce loved ones to flight, so it’s critical that you don’t blow it. Depending on how those first flights go, your passengers may fly regularly with you in the future, or never step aboard again.

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Feature Article So do all you can to deliver each first-time passenger a wonderful experience. Fly early or late in the day, avoid wind and turbulence, and handle the controls with supreme smoothness.

Although you’ve just invested many hours mastering flight maneuvers, those are not the skills to demonstrate on the first flight with the family. A surprising number of new pilots try to impress passengers with their newly acquired flying skills by performing stalls and steep turns. This can be a disastrous error, because once family members become frightened of flying, there’s a fair chance that they won’t try it again. Piloting airplanes is like riding motorcycles, “driving” is a blast, but riding as a passenger is scary because you have no control.

Scare your passengers on their first ride, and your career as family pilot may be over, permanently. Better to deliver a dull ride and have them begging to go another time.

Appropriate skills to demonstrate on first flights are smoothness, great takeoffs and landings, and perhaps cross-country navigation. In short, your mission is to fly like a professional pilot.

What Makes Us Pros In The Eyes Of Our Passengers?

Certainly good judgment and precision flying skills head the Aviation Excellence Since 1946

list, but consideration for your passengers is also important.

When you talk to your passengers about safety and comfort, they are likely to straighten in their seats, arrange their collars, and assume a serious expression. Now you sound like a professional pilot, and your passengers will notice the similarities.

One mark of a professional pilot to which everyone can relate is the preflight briefing. After all, that’s what happens on every airline flight, right? So along with regulatory obligations to brief your passengers, here’s an opportunity to help put your passengers at ease. Before starting the engine, spend a few moments explaining what’s going to happen from start-up through taxi and takeoff. For example, every passenger who’s seen a disaster movie knows the meaning of a flashing light or a beeping horn, right? Emergency!

Be assured that if you don’t explain it ahead of time, the eyes of your passengers will be glued in terror to that little blinking transponder reply light throughout the flight, until, that is, the stall warning grabs their attention upon landing. Point out before starting the engine that passengers may notice flashing lights during the flight and perhaps hear a horn, and that all of it is normal.

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up the engine, and how after takeoff you’ll be banking and reducing power. It also helps to use a signal, like raising your right hand, when you’re busy or receiving radio calls to notify passengers that you require silence. Once aloft, fly with smoothness and alert passengers about what to expect under various flight situations.

Turbulence is particularly frightening for passengers. Never, ever schedule a first airplane ride when bumps are likely or the weather looks threatening for any reason. If you do anticipate a few bumps once in the air, use your training to point it out ahead of time.

“See those hills, Barb? Since there’s a breeze blowing over them from the west, we may experience a few bumps until we get to the other side.” Barb now knows what to expect, so mild turbulence will bother her less. And if it remains smooth, she’ll be suitably impressed by her knowledgeable pilot all the same.

When weather or other circumstances do cause you to cancel a flight, or if you must land somewhere other than your intended destination, don’t worry about it. Be conservative and proud of it. Your family will greatly respect you for no-go decisions and will feel more confident about flying with you in the future.

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Feature Article Where Should We Go On That First Flight?

Pilots often think that since they love flying, friends and families will too. If only life were that simple. The fact is that few passengers have fun just “flying around,” at least early on.

That’s why it’s usually best to offer flying as an avenue for doing other things family members enjoy, rather than trying to get them to love flight itself. Instead of cruising around aimlessly for an hour, plan a destination where the advantages of going by air are obvious. Fly your husband somewhere in an hour that would require hours to drive, like to lunch with his buds across the state. Whisk him to the beach or off to a fishing adventure. But whatever you do, make his special interest possible through your flying.

What makes a given flying trip really fun is having a destination. Family members might hem and haw a bit about flying around locally just for fun. But when it comes to a real mission, like flying to the mountains to pick up the kids from summer camp, now that’s exciting, and everyone wants to go.

I was already a pilot when I met my future wife. Jean put up with a certain amount of flying because it came with the territory, but she was not particularly interested in flying regularly. The breakthrough came when I suggested a trip to visit her folks.

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An easy hour-and-a-half flight to her hometown saved four and a half hours of driving, including negotiating metropolitan Chicago. More importantly, my wife quickly realized that I’d gladly tolerate an otherwise difficult weekend with the in-laws if I got to fly there. It proved to be one of our better understandings, and Jean learned to use it most effectively.

“Want to go to Mom and Pop’s next weekend?”

“Well, er, I was planning on, er, cleaning out the garage.”

“Listen, Greg, we could fly up on Saturday morning, see my folks for dinner, and then fly back after brunch on Sunday.”

You can guess who wins that discussion every time.

As friends and loved ones become more comfortable with aviation, their appetite for adventure will increase. Introduce them gently, and in most cases they’ll gear up for bigger trips as you progress as a pilot.

Keep the first few flights with friends and family from being overly ambitious. One fellow I know wanted to make his first trip with passengers something they’d remember, and he undoubtedly succeeded. Having learned to fly in the Phoenix area, Joe decided to fly three close friends in a Piper Cherokee to a small airport in southern Utah for a family reunion.

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This is an ideal use for a light airplane, but it meant a trip of several hundred miles over mountainous terrain in the heat of summer.

Joe’s preflight homework was thorough, including careful fuel and density altitude calculations, plus selection of alternate airports along the route. On the morning of departure Joe made his first mistake. Not wanting to inconvenience his first-time passengers with a pre-dawn departure, he hosted them to a leisurely breakfast before taking off mid-morning. In the heat of a Southwest summer day, afternoon turbulence ranges from continuous moderate to occasional severe, so smart pilots plan flights only early in the day.

Just over the Utah border, Joe became uncertain of his position and deviated off course looking for landmarks, which of course is usually a mistake. The harder he looked, the more lost he became, until he finally decided to deviate to an alternate airport selected along the way. By then the air had become turbulent and his passengers? faces were buried in air sickness bags.

The plane was by now overdue for Joe’s flight-plan estimated time of arrival, so upon landing he and his passengers learned that flight service was looking for the airplane over a two-state area. After calling off the search, refueling, and regrouping, Joe and his passengers proceeded uneventfully to their destination. www.flyvfc.com

Feature Article Joe’s passengers might never have flown with him again, except that they had no choice, there was absolutely no other way to return home from the remote mountain area. Fortunately, this departure was made early in the morning, and the return flight was as smooth as glass.

Although he made a few mistakes, this pilot actually did an excellent job of completing a challenging first flight as pilot-incommand with passengers. The flight’s safety was never compromised, and Joe’s thorough preflight planning made getting lost no more than a nuisance.

When you think about it, Joe’s was a terrific flying mission to plan with friends, it’s just that a few shorter flights first would have prepared them for the more ambitious trip to follow.

Some people just take longer than others to get accustomed to the idea of flying, and a few will not participate at all. How can we sell white-knuckle passengers?

with your performance in the airplane environment, most passengers will warm to the idea of flying with you as sole pilot in the future.

Another useful tool for encouraging nervous passengers is the “flying companion” course, such as that AOPA Air Safety Foundation’s Pinch-Hitter Program, which introduces nonpilots to the airplane environment. Graduates gain increased cockpit understanding, can assist with cockpit tasks, and, most importantly, learn what to do if their pilot becomes incapacitated.

In addition to AOPA’s program, the Ninety-Nines International organization of women pilots offers a course for flying companions, or one may be individually arranged with an instructor. Depending upon interest and confidence, some students in these courses take only classroom training, while others experience flight simulators or take actual instruction in an airplane.

For nervous types it often helps to invite along an experienced pilot and passenger for the first few flights, even though you could easily handle it alone. A nagging fear for many passengers is that their pilot, however competent, might somehow become incapacitated in flight, leaving them helpless. An additional pilot obviously addresses this concern, while a seasoned passenger soothes nerves as well. Once they are comfortable

While not every pilot’s companion wants to tackle such a project, I once gave this training to a 14-year-old who routinely flew right seat with her father.

After several hours of instruction she could land a Cessna 210, per Dad’s request. The landings weren’t pretty, but the young woman could get the plane down safely, and the family was more comfortable knowing they had a backup. In any case, the more your regular passengers know about flying, the more comfort-

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able they’ll be in the cockpit with you.

Group flying trips can also increase family enthusiasm about flying. Many flying clubs and flight schools organize multipleairplane “fly-outs” to destinations from dinners to ski weekends.

These are great for involving the family in aviation adventures as they include vacation destinations, other friends and spouses for moral support, and experienced pilots. There’s hardly a better way to spread enthusiasm about flying.

When friends and family are slow to gain confidence in our flying, it’s disappointing for us as pilots, but don’t give up. Sometimes it takes a while, but as hesitant passengers gain confidence in your growing experience, many do ultimately climb aboard.

One of the great joys of being a pilot is sharing the adventure of flight with others. Our challenge is to make sure the experience delivers delight, not dread. Once family and friends decide that flying is fun, they’ll ride with us through almost any adventure and, in most cases, keep smiling in the process.

Pilot your airplane like a pro, make flying a great experience, and chances are your favorite passengers will become your biggest fans.

“Hey, wow, Hon! I wasn’t so sure about this on the first flight? but this is really fun!” ~~~~~~~ September 2013

Pilot Briefing

GETTIN’ THERE aviation information for local destinations

Destination:

Port Alberni (CBS8 – Alberni Valley Regional)

Why Go? There are several good reasons to fly up to Port Alberni. The challenge is that the airport is 11km from town which means, for most of those good reasons, you’ll have to arrange some sort of transportation to town. The exception is if you’re headed to Port Alberni to go gliding with the Vancouver Island Soaring Centre or the Alberni Valley Soaring Association. The flight itself can be spectacular, especially if you come up the centre of Vancouver Island. Just remember - the central island route is a mountain flight and if you’re flying a Club airplane you’ll need to have the Mountain Flying Course.

The airport is a small but nicely maintained building with washrooms available. If you want to get to town or the many tourist venues in the region you’ll need to call a cab from town or be picked up.

Located in the Alberni Valley area are several lakes, a couple of vineyards and of course the Town of Port Alberni. From an aviation view, what makes Port September 2013

Alberni famous is that it’s the home of Coulson Flying Tankers, operators of the Martin Mars water bombers.

Getting There I’ve mentioned that there are two routes you can take to get to Port Alberni. I’m going to concentrate on the “main” one as it is by far the most popular way to get there. The easiest way to get to Port Alberni is to “fly to Qualicum, turn left, fly past Horne Lake and land.”

I’ll let you work out the details of the flight plan but essentially you’ll fly up island until you pass Qualicum Beach airport.

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Shortly after passing Qualicum you’ll see a mountain pass on your left side. Head towards the pass and as you approach it you’ll see you’re flying between Horne Lake (to the north) and Cameron Lake (to the south), essentially following the Alberni Highway. There are a couple of things to watch for as you approach the pass: • On a good weather day there can be a lot of traffic in this area. Start announcing your position and intentions on the Alberni MF (123.0 MHz at time of writing) before you get to the pass. (image from archive.copanational.org)

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Pilot Briefing • You’ll need to be at about 4500 ft. to cross the pass. Remember to ensure your altitude is appropriate for your direction of flight.

• As you cross the pass and approach Alberni continue to announce your intentions and keep an eye open for gliders – on a nice day they’re everywhere.

After you cross the pass and the valley starts to open up, stay to the north (traffic permitting) and you’ll see the airport. Follow the Uncontrolled Aerodrome procedures to overfly the field, join the circuit and land. When you’re overflying the field be aware that, unlike some uncontrolled airports that keep both downwind legs on one side of the runway, both runways at Port Alberni are a standard left hand circuit, which means the downwind leg will be on either side of the runway, depending on the wind.

After landing, taxi to the terminal building area to park.

Local Knowledge Flying up to Port Alberni really isn’t complicated however there are a few things to be aware of that you may not find in the CFS: • The windsock is near the centre of the runway, not at either end, so if you overfly the centre of the airport you won’t see the windsock.

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• As mentioned above, Alberni Regional is a popular gliding spot. You may find the runway is temporarily unavailable because of glider ops. (Another good reason for giving plenty of notice of your intention to land.)

• You may find it a bit bumpy if you’re flying close to the ridge to the east of the airport.

• Alberni Valley Regional Airport NOTAMS are listed under Nanaimo. DO check the NOTAMS as occasionally the airport is closed because of special events like drag racing.

Weather There’s no METAR / TAF for Port Alberni so you have to rely on the GFA and reports from other airports for weather information. Comox is the closest airport with a METAR / TAF so it’s a good start; you can also look at Tofino to get an idea of what weather may be inbound.

Port Alberni does have a weather cam that will give you a good idea of current conditions. Other local weather factors to be aware of include: • Port Alberni is in a valley at the end of an ocean inlet so be watchful of weather coming up the inlet.

• It’s not unusual to see cloud sitting over the pass between Horne and Cameron Lakes.

Resist the urge to try and sneak under it to get into Port Alberni; it may be possible BUT you really want to be sure of the weather on the other side.

Heading to Qualicum for a bowl of soup is a much better plan.

Important Links & Contacts Coulson Flying Tankers: www.martinmars.com/index.htm Vancouver Island Soaring Centre: visc.wqs.ca/ Alberni Valley Soaring Assoc.: www.avsa.ca Alberni Flying Club: alberniflyingclub.blogspot.ca/

Printed copies of all the Gettin’ There articles are available. You can pick them up at the Customer Service at the Club.

Watch for future installments of Gettin’ There in upcoming issues of The Patrician.

• It can get quite hot in Port Alberni so be prepared for turbulence and density altitude calculations

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First Solos

Alexander Allou Instructor:Tyler Bishop

Allen Planes Instructor: Laura Van Buskirk

Jirawat Dendandome Instructor: Jeff Bujas

Jonathan Monahan Instructor: Jeff Bujas

“Without disruption of air traffic, these fearless, forthright, indomitable and courageous individuals did venture into the wild blue yonder in flying machines.

Furthermore, these skilful ndividuals did safely land said flying machines at Victoria International Airport, incurring no significant damage to self or machine, thus completing first solo flights.�

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First Solos

Russel Dubinsky Instructor:Colin Brown

Taylar Anderson Davies Instructor: Tyler Bishop

Wendy Noel Instructor: Brendan O’Hare

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Photo of the Month

Thanks to Patrick Lundgren for submitting this month’s winning photo (above). The picture is of the Race Rocks lighthouse. (Taken from a safe distance)

Send your best aviation photo to thepatrician@ shaw.ca for your chance to win great Pilot Shop prizes. Every submission is entered into a yearly draw for a $100 VFC Gift Certficate. Keep your camera in your flight bag!

Discover the Beauty of Flight

learn to fly gliders in the Alberni Valley

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transitioning to gliders is simple with previous flying experience

Alberni Valley Soaring Association

www.avsa.ca Photo: Patrick Pelletier

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Flight Training

PRIVATE PILOT GROUNDSCHOOL Monday and Wednesday 1900-2200 Victoria Flying Club Classroom

DATE TOPIC INSTRUCTOR

Sept 04

Navigation

Brendan

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Navigation

Brendan

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Navigation

Brendan

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ATC

Jason

18 Review Colin

COMMERCIAL GROUNDSCHOOL DATE TOPIC INSTRUCTOR

Sept 13

1700-2100

Radio and Electronic Theory

Sean T.

Sept 14

0830-1700

Licensing Requirements/CARS

Kristen

Sept 15

0830-1700

Theory of Flight Aerodynamics

Jeff

Sept 20

1700-2100

Meteorology

Tyler

Sept 21

0830-1700

Meteorology

Tyler

Sept 22

0830-1700

Meteorology

Tyler

Sept 27

1700-2100

Flight Operations

Colin

Sept 28

0830-1700

Navigation

Brendan

Sept 29

0830-1230

Navigation

Brendan

Sept 29

12-1700

GPS

Graham

To Register for Groundschool, or to purchase a Groundschool Kit, please contact the Victoria Flying Club office at info@flyvfc.com or 250-656-2833.

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