THE PATRICIAN APRIL 2015
The Victoria Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946
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THE PATRICIAN APRIL 2015
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.�
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(Victoria Flying Club Incorporation Bylaws, 1946) Board of Directors President...................................Ramona Reynolds Vice President....................................Firat Ataman Secretary......................................Colin Williamson Treasurer.............................................Rob Shemilt Directors............................................. Steve Demy Firat Ataman Vernon Fischer Rolf Hopkinson General Manager.................................Gerry Mants Chief Flying Instructor....................Graham Palmer
Introducing 2015 VFC Board of Directors 2015 Aircraft Rental Rates
7 Achieving Your Dreams ~ Tracey Burns 9 Fleet Captain Corner ~ Steve Demy 13 Fly-Out Bug Updates ~ Eleanor Eastick
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17 BC Airport Challenge Updates
Phone: 250-656-2833 Fax: 250-655-0910
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News from VFC
VFC News
VFC Spring Open House - Saturday May 9 Call for Aircraft Show and Shine
Remember last year’s spring Open House and all the fun we had out on the ramp? It was a serious aircraft static display! In fact, it was so much fun, we want to do it again!
On Saturday May 9 from 11-3 we will once again open our doors and invite the community in to see who we are and what we do here at VFC. We’re excited to share our love of aviation with our many expected visitors and we’d like you to join us in showcasing your amazing aircraft! There is no cost to be included in this year’s Show and Shine. If you would like to participate, you can contact Gerry Mants or Marcel Poland at the VFC office: 250-656-2833 or info@flyvfc.com. Also, please invite your friends, neighbours, family members, colleagues, and anyone else you can think of who might be interested in learning to fly. Let’s Fly it Forward this spring and share our love of aviation!
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VFC News
2015 VFC Board of Directors
On Thursday, March 5 members of the Victoria Flying Club convened for the Club’s Annual General Meeting. VFC is a not-for-profit organization, meaning that the Club belongs to each individual who pays a membership, and that any financial profit belongs to the Club, and not to an indivdual owner or investor. The Victoria Flying Club is governed by a volunteer board, who are elected each year at the AGM. Our board brings a mix of business experience April 2015
combined with a love of flying and a passion for the success of the Victoria Flying Club. They put in significant unpaid hours to make sure VFC remains a safe, affordable, and fun place to fly. When you see the VFC board members around the Club, please do stop and introduce yourself. They are a friendly bunch, and are always more than happy to chat with members. Get to know them, and find out more about how you can get involved in making VFC a fantastic place to be! 3
2015 VFC Board of Directors Back (L to R): Howard Peng, Vice President Colin Shemilt, Director Steve Demy, Director Colin Williamson, Secretary Vern Fischer, Treasurer Firat Ataman, Director Front (L to R): Ramona Reynolds, President Rolf Hopkinson, Director
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Groundschool
PRIVATE PILOT GROUNDSCHOOL Monday and Wednesday 1900-2200 Victoria Flying Club Classroom Note: No Groundschool April 6 or May 18, 2015
DATE
TOPIC INSTRUCTOR
Apr 01 Review Colin 08 CARs and Licencing Requirements Brett 13 CARs and Licencing Requirements Brett 15 Aeordynamics, Theory of Flight Iain 20 Human Factors & Pilot Decision Making Brett 22 Airframes and Engines Dave 27 Systems and Flight Instruments Dave 29 Radio and Electronic Theory Brady May 04 Meteorology Sean T. 06 Meteorology Sean T. 11 Meteorology Sean T. 13 Meteorology Sean T. 20 Meteorology Sean T. 25 Meteorology Sean T. 27 Flight Operations Colin Jun 01 Flight Operations Colin 03 Navigation Brendan 08 Navigation Brendan 10 Navigation Brendan 15 ATC/Fly-Outs Jason G. 17 Review Colin To register for Groundschool, or to purchase a Groundschool Kit, please contact the Victoria Flying Club at info@flyvfc.com or 250-656-2833.
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VFC News
Find The Price and Time That Works For You! VFC 2015 Aircraft Rental Rates Explained While most flying clubs and flight training organizations might set their rental rates for the year and be done with it, we have, in the past couple of years, done some tweaking and adjusting to try to accomplish two things. The first goal we have is to keep flying affordable. And we’ve been able to do that in a number of ways which we’ll outline below. The second thing we want to do is make the most efficient use of our fleet by distributing flight hours more evenly around the clock, and also across the calendar.
all of our members to keep on doing what they love. VFC offers one of the lowest base rental rates in Canada, and we are determined to keep it that way!
Bad News/Good News:
1. Take advantage of VFC’s Quiet Hour Pricing.
Bad news first. We occasionally have to raise the rental rates at VFC. It doesn’t happen often, and is never done arbitrarily. These discussions are often involved and the end result is in accordance with expenses, demand, and with consideration of the current economic climate and inflation rates. We want to keep rates as low as possible for as long as possible, and at the same time avoid the need for large price adjustments that would occasionally be needed if we let the inevitable cost increases accumulate for too long. As such, we have a price change scheduled for June, and we are confident that it will allow April 2015
2. Don’t wait for summer! We all know we’re fortunate to live and fly here in YYJ. It’s a fact we are all too happy to brag about to our friends and relations anywhere west of Chilliwack. Spring and fall weather in Victoria is ideal for recreational flying or flight training. So don’t wait for summer to dust off your ambitions. You can do a lot of flying before the price change takes effect on June 15!
And now the good news! Regardless of the base rental rate, there are ways that you can shape your flying habits to suit your budget. You can choose to save money, and you can easily make it happen! Who doesn’t love that? Here’s how:
If you fly between 1700 and 0930, you can save upwards of 10%. Monday to Friday, there is a $10 discount during those hours. On weekends the discount is $15 per hour. If just a portion of your flight occurs during those hours, you still get a discount on that portion of your flight. Our dispatch software will do the math and ensure that you get the best possible price. And anyone who regularly flies during the morning and evening will tell you that a reduced rental rate isn’t the only benefit. Conditions are often better, and there is less air traffic overall. It’s a relaxing and fun way to start or end your day! 5
3. Book your Annual Check Ride As a VFC Flying or Life Member, VFC offers two hours of instructor time annually for you to check in and ensure that you are flying sharp and safe. For your annual check ride, you need only pay for the aircraft rental, and any instructor time over and above two hours. You can book your check ride for any time that suits your schedule, so why not do it now before the price increase? Even better, book it on a weekend during the Quiet Hours and save an extra $15 per hour on your rental.
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VFC News
VFC 2015 Aircraft Rental Rates Time Frame January 1 to June 14 June 15 to September 7 September 8 to December 31
172S Model Rental Rate $139/hour $149/hour $144/hour
VFC 2015 Quiet Hour Discount Pricing Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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Feature Article
RESPONSIBILITY AS ACCESS TO ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS Tracey Burns, Executive Coaching and Consulting
not so fast! Cue stage left, the human who (despite stating they really, really want to achieve the goal and will do what it takes to get there) sets the goal, takes action towards the goal and then begins to meet opposition and/or obstacles on the pathway to achievement. We’ve all been there right?
Goal Setting is a very common topic of conversation during my coaching engagements however I like to take a very uncommon approach to this popular topic. By exploring with my clients their perceptions, beliefs, thoughts and feelings about themselves and then their actions in relationship to achieving what it is they say they’d like to achieve we can provide access to possibility, creativity and innovation and usually create extraordinary results. Sounds easy right? Ah, April 2015
When we are stretching ourselves and our leadership, it is absolutely normal that obstacles and opposition will appear. However, often we relate to these circumstances as though they shouldn’t be happening. Sometimes we go so far as to get defensive, resigned, negative, perplexed, confused, disorganized, overwhelmed, stressed and hugely impacted by all of the circumstances “beyond our control”. Sometimes we even blame other people for our lack of results, a huge power leak for leaders. Consider that blaming ourselves and others evokes defensiveness and inhibits awareness and positive risk taking, blocks honest recognition, identification and acknowledgment of inefficiencies in people, processes and systems. Often I use, “the opposite of” as a tool with my clients. The opposite behaviour to blaming for example would
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be to get responsible. Let’s explore the powerful word “responsibility” and expand its definition. Responsibility means the willing acceptance of the consequences of your actions or perhaps your duty to deal with something or someone; the duty of carrying out your job or a particular task. Now consider your relationship to the word, “responsibility”. What do you think of? Does the word land negatively for you or does it carry any burden or obligation? People can spin out for days here, getting pulled into inactivity as they swirl in their negative emotions. Consider how effective and efficient your actions would become absent of the negativity, burden and obligation? When we assume a true stand of responsibility as a way of being, we give up defensiveness, excuse making, lying, self-protection, blame, judgment and most importantly our interpretations of the events and circumstances. When we adopt this version of responsibility absent of negativity, we not only take back our power, we add velocity to our actions. We act with clarity and efficiency. Being responsible takes work, discipline and commitment. It requires us to abandon the
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Feature Article personal implications of the situation in exchange for a more future focused exploration of the facts. An effective way to shift your relationship to being responsible can be practiced by using the following three questions:
the defensive but from a place of curiosity and discovery.
What happened? Rather than looking for someone to blame or put at fault be genuinely interested in the facts as they stand.
In adopting this new definition of responsibility we add power and clarity to our lives and in addition, create a new level of effectiveness when setting and achieving goals. Every day you proceed to take action towards your goal you will find yourself at choice points. In that precise
What was missing? Not from a place of something wrong which almost always puts people on
What’s next? Being able, willing and ready to take action based on the answers discovered absent of anger and/or negative emotions.
moment of choice, taking a stand of responsibility, being willing to take the initiative will most certainly generate new outcomes for you in every area of your life and pave the way for those you interact with to do the same. Tracey Burns, PCC Executive Coaching & Leadership Development www.TraceyBurns.com
VFC MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS New Members Scott Bennett Wendy Dentro-Smith Trevor Claus Connor Louis Neilly Melton Wan Scott Auringer Anders Nielsen Kenechukwu Kenneth Arize Kevin Hrab Bernd Buchner Merle Kroeker Luke Millard
First Solos Kelly King Sida Shi RPP Flight Test Daniel Cho PPL Written Exam Elgin Penner PPL Flight Test Duncan Cochrane Curtis Bailey Mike Turner Dao Chen
CPL Written Julie Williams CPL Flight Test Julie Williams Night Rating Liam Aloni Dave Dyck Seaplane Endorsement Silvia Zilker IFR Rating Keegan Allen
PPL Licence Duncan Cochrane
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Feature Article
FleetCaptain Corner Questions that every VFC member should be able to answer (but not everyone can)
Question One: Who owns the Victoria Flying Club?
You do. VFC is owned by its members. These are your planes, these are your buildings, the staff works for you, and the Board of Directors work to accomplish your club’s goals.
Question Two: What are the club’s goals?
To make ßying as safe, as rewarding and as affordable as possible. If you dream of ßying, the club is determined to help make your dreams come true. OK, so what is FleetCaptain, and what is FleetCaptain Corner? FleetCaptain is a leading-edge software system developed here at the Victoria Flying Club. It is designed to support the staff, enabling individuals to work as a team to accomplish our club’s goals. FleetCaptain has signiÞcantly improved the utilization of our ßeet, allowing VFC to operate modern Front Dispatch training aircraft at industry leading low Counter prices. Over the next few Patrician issues, IÕm going to use FleetCaptain Corner to explain a bit about how this works: How weÕve expanded our ßeet without adding planes, how we can offer discount prices outside of our busy hours and busy seasons, and how safety is enhanced by software-based analysis, aircraft selection and key data presentation to the pilot.
Flight line
Maintenance
IÕll review some of the beneÞts and examine how you can take advantage of our new capabilities. And there are things that every pilot can do to help our operation run smoothly and efÞciently. IÕll go over those too. In the mean time, take a peek at a dispatcherÕs screen to get a glimpse of the system in operation. Or have one of the ßight line staff show you the mobile interface. Or tap me on the shoulder and IÕll bore you with more details than you ever thought existed in a little ßying club.
Steve Demy
ATPL, ATP (multi), B. Eng. (Electrical) Victoria Flying Club - Director Columbia 300 driver FleetCaptain - Developer sndaviation.com
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Aviation Events
PrepAIR: YYJ
Join us for our first Annual Inter-User Refresher. Learn about changes coming to the Victoria Airport, Tower Procedures, Runway Incursion Prevention, Local Weather Patterns and FIC Services. Coffee/Tea provided at 8:30am and Seminar starts at 9:00am. Light Lunch provided. Aviation Excellence Since 1946
Registration closed at 100 participants. When Saturday April 11, 2015 from 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM PDT Where Viscount Aero Centre 9800 McDonald Park Rd Sidney, BC V8L 1Y7 10
Contact Darlene George NAV CANADA georgda@navcanada.ca Don’t miss out on this great opportunity. Great pilots are always learning!
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VFC News
Stop dreaming and do it...
You CAN Learn to Fly!
Learn to Fly Package $
599
The Learn to Fly package includes the following: • Discovery Flight • One hour in the Redbird Full-Motion Simulator • Groundschool Registration • Groundschool Materials • One Year Membership
plus tax
Available starting April 6th.
Over $800 in value! Call today to buy your package and book your first flight! 250-656-2833
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Dream. Discover. Experience. Explore.
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VFC Achievements
FIRST SOLOS
Sida Shi Instructor: Hana Nakahara
Kelly King Instructor: Iain Wallis
“Without disruption of air traffic, these fearless, forthright, indomitable and courageous individuals did venture into the wild blue yonder in flying machines. Furthermore, these skillful individuals 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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COPA Quadrant
Submitted by: Eleanor Eastick
Once again the lounge at VFC was filled up by COPA members on March 3rd, all there to hear of the progress being made on the restoration of a Catalina at YYJ. The Catalina Preservation Society has been working hard on it and it is expected to be flying by summertime. The talk was accompanied by lots of photos of this immensely interesting and useful aircraft, including publicity shots of it in use, post WWII as a luxury “RV� for the wealthy. This famous Catalina has lain abandoned for over 50 years on the beach off the Strait of Tiran on the Saudi Arabian side of the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The aircraft is a PBY-5A model and was bought from the US Navy by Thomas W Kendall, a retired businessman who converted it to a luxury flying yacht.
The next meeting of COPA will be held in the VFC lounge, Tuesday, April 7th at 7 PM. The speaker for the evening is Jason Stewart, CFI of Pro IFR who will speak to us about the IFR rating. Jason became an instructor with VFC in 2002, and in addition to his Class 1 Instructor rating, he is also a Multi-IFR Transport Canada Pilot Examiner. His commercial and international
flying experience includes flying a LearJet25 for a Medevac operation, a Cessna Citation jet for a private owner; and a Challenger 604 jet as Captain. This promises to be an informative evening and it is open to anyone who is interested - you need not be a COPA member to attend. Be at the VFC lounge, April 7, 1900. For more information, please contact copaflight6@gmail.com.
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 $14,000 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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Fly-Out Bug Update
Yay! A Good Day for the Gillies Bay Flyout! By: Eleanor Eastick Encouraged by the success of the February flyout to Courtenay, Ian Coneybeer organized another outing to Gillies Bay on Saturday, March 21st. After a lot of rainy, marginal VFR weather, Mother Nature cooperated with a sunny day for the less-than-one-hour flight to CYGB. Ian arranged transportation from the airstrip to the Ravenous Raven, a well-known and popular lodge on Texada Island. A good time was had by all with the great weather, beautiful runway, good food. Does it get any better? The next flyout will take place Sunday, April 12. We will be taking off from Victoria, flying over Skagit Valley during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival then having lunch at Boundary Bay and coming back to Victoria. We will not be landing in the US, so no Customs procedures are required although we will be flying in US airspace on a Canadian Flight Plan. We will get more clarification from VFC CFI Graham Palmer to make sure we are all following regulations. Contact flyoutbug@gmail.com for details and updates.
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VFC News
Naomi Carlow Needs a New Liver - You Can Help! Naomi Carlow is the granddaughter of Shawn and Debbie Carlow. Shawn is a club member (since 2001). She is also the niece of Mat Carlow who was an AME at the flying club for 4 years. VFC is a family, and family steps up when needed. Please, let’s all do what we can to help our fellow club member and his family.
however it was not successful. Doctors have advised that she requires a liver transplant, and that it will be conducted in Edmonton. The immediate family must remain there for a minimum of three months during the recovery process, as well as make trips pre and post-surgery for evaluations. The extended family of Naomi is raising funds to help with the non-medical expenses such as travel, accommodation, meals and the continued expenses for their home in Lake Cowichan, and are asking for your help. Donations can be made: In person at any branch of: Island Savings Credit Union, Lake Cowichan Account 239 3098, “In trust for family of Naomi Carlow.”
Naomi Carlow (now 5 months old) was born with bilary atresia, a life threatening liver condition in which the bile ducts inside or outside the liver do not have normal openings, causing bile to become trapped, build up and cause liver damage.
On line at: http://www.youcaring. com/medical-fundraiser/ help-naomi-fight-biliaryatresia/276295 For further information please contact Shawn Carlow at cottonwoodcreek@shaw.ca. Thank you!
A Naomi Carlow Fundraiser Saturday June 13, 2015 Royal Canadian Legion Branch 91 761 Station Road Langford
Tickets on sale April 15 Cost $20 Those attending will get a burger and a drink included in their ticket price. Burgers available 5pm-8pm. Bar Open 5pm until closing. Your drink could be a beer, glass of wine, highball or soft drink (after the drink from the ticket you can buy from the Legion bar). Please support the silent auctions. There will be one auction from 5pm to 7pm and another from 7pm to 9pm. We are soliciting donations of items for these auctions. There will also be two 50/50 draws, one at 7pm and one at 9pm. We will be providing entertainment during the event. After 9pm, guests are welcome to remain in the Legion Auditorium and socialize with family and friends, and enjoy the entertainment. Individual and/or group donations can be made at this event.
A 5 hour operation called a Kasai procedure was performed on Naomi at 5 weeks of age, using a part of her small intestine to replace the bile duct, April 2015
Burger and Beer Night
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FUNDRAISER FOR NAOMI
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Airport Challenge
THE 2015 BC AIRPORT CHALLENGE Flying With Friends Has Never Been More Fun!
And... They’re off! The 2015 BC Airport Challenge is off to a great start. Not sure what the BC Airport Challenge is? Here’s the short version. Basically, you visit as many authorized BC Airports as you can throughout the year. Take a photo when you’re there, show it to dispatch when you get back, and be entered for great monthly prizes, as well as some amazing grand prize packages at the end of the year! And... as an added bonus this April 2015
year, every non-pilot friend you take flying gets entered into a draw for their very own Discovery Flight. We’re Flying it Forward here at VFC and sharing our love of aviation and flight with as many people as possible. You can help! You can find the updated 2015 map and current standings at: http://www.olantra.com/vfc/ Once again, we want to offer our thanks to VFC member Doug Neal for creating and updating our map. 17
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VFC News
Dream. Discover. Experience. Explore.
Take the first step at VFC! Call us today to get started! 250-656-2833
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VFC Classifieds
VFC CHARTER SERVICE
BE THERE IN MINUTES!
Fly between Victoria and destinations on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. Charter an aircraft and take up to 3 people. (restrictions apply)
For more information or to book a flight Email: tedk@flyvfc.com Call: 1-250-474-0213
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
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