July 2010

The Patrician VICTORIA FLYING CLUB

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CF-18 “NIGHTMARE 89” LOW PASS AT CYYJ

JULY 2010

The Patrician Monthly newsletter of the Victoria Flying Club

JULY 2010

In this issue:

The Victoria Flying Club est. 1946

5 Flying to the US

“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)

8 Photos from Lacombe Alberta Fly-In Breakfast - Alan Johnston

9 Victoria Day Fly-Out Report Marie Woodruff

Board of Directors President………………………………….….Lloyd Toope Vice President…………………………..Colin Dormuth Treasurer……………………………………….Ellen Wood Secretary……………………………………….Rob Shemilt Directors………………………………………..Sean Steele Colin Williamson Don Devenney Steve Demy General Manager………………………….Gerry Mants Chief Flying Instructor……………..Graham Palmer

13 Coming Events Editor/Publisher: Christie Hall thepatrician@shaw.ca Midnight Design and Communication midnightdc@shaw.ca

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The past month has been a busy one at the Victoria Flying Club.

We enjoyed some up close and personal glimpses of the Snowbirds in action as they were in town taking part in the Naval Centennial.

My favourite little pilots-in-training enjoyed their first flight in a Cessna 172 during “Burgers and Bounces” night on June 23rd. Along with “Wings Night” on June 9th, this was a well-attended evening, with a good number of flights and plenty of fabulous food to go around.

Check out page 13 of this month’s issue for upcoming “Wings Night” and “Burgers and Bounces” deals and details. Everyone is welcome!

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Congratulations to: Gary McCoey for his winning photo of the month. His photo showcases the beautiful Pacific Rim National Park, and was taken on a return trip from Tofino. Thanks for the photo, Gary! You can pick up your pilot shop prize package at the front office next time you’re at the club.

Reminder…… In addition to a monthly prize from the pilot shop, each photo submission will be entered into a draw at the end of the year for a $100 VFC gift certificate!

Submit by the 15th of the month: thepatrician@shaw.ca Photos of note on the next page: 1. Bill Wagner—This mountain photo was taken turning the corner over Rogers Pass, en route to Calgary...in a float plane. Nice day, smooth air and 9,500' was easy with a stock aircraft.

2. Clark Pelter— Photo of Corinna Templeton’s solo flight landing ( current VFC Student )

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The Redbird FMX flight simulator is arriving soon at the Victoria Flying Club! For more information, or to see the Redbird in Action, check out: www.redbirdflightsimulations.com www.flyingmag.com/safety/training/redbird-flight-simulations Redbird FMX on YouTube

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Flying to the United States Take the uncertainty out of flying across the border and into unfamiliar airspace, with some basic preparation and planning. *Excerpted from a handout available at the Victoria Flying

Club office, written by Instructor Tristan Nano

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Complete eAPIS Notice of Arrival min one hour prior to departing Canada and print off email confirming receipt.

File notice of arrival and/or landing rights by phone customs at airport of arrival. Some require as little as one hour notice prior to arriving and up to 24 hours for others.

File a Canadian flight plan—do not use the “advise customs” option.

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I recommend Flight Following when in the USA, when not flying in a CZ—basically an approach or centre controller watching over you, and handing you off to the next frequency, traffic information etc, as their workload permits.

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A Few Quick Differences Between US and Canada: 1.

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ATC often clear aircraft to land but in sequence; for example, you may be cleared to land but number 5.

You must call FSS by radio and activate your flight plan. Tower cannot do this. Find the nearest RCO on the chart.

Cessna172 is called a Skyhawk because their registrations have numbers so they avoid saying the model number. There is nothing wrong with calling yourself a 172 but may catch a few controllers and you will be different.

Instead of CYR and CYA they have restricted and warning areas.

Flights within the USA do not require a VFR flight plan, regardless of distance.

When talking to a centre controller, it is best to give location by referencing a VOR station.

When flying into an uncontrolled airport, aircraft usually join the circuit via 45 degree entry onto down

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wind. If there is no AWOS, you must fly at least 500’ above the circuit then descend well clear the circuit.

For airports with one runway and circuits on one side, it is not wrong to cross midfield and circuit alt and then join into the downwind directly. Straight ins are fairly common as well—basically keep your eyes open and make frequent radio calls.

Instead of 126.7, frequency 122.0 (called “flightwatch”) is used for similar purposes for weather and PIREPS. When contacting on initial transmission, say nearest VOR station. Contact nearest FSS station for flight plan changes. For flight plan amendments call nearest FSS station.

When calling on approach or centre frequency, keep in mind the controller may be using several frequencies, so it may be a few minutes before even getting a response.

There are many more small differences such as VFR minimums, VFR OTT, etc. Consult a US AIM for regulations.

Skyvector.com gives free current US charts, the FAA flight directory online, and airport weather.

AirNav.com provides a great pilot information source for airports plus fuel prices, hotels, pictures, etc.

If flying to Seattle Boeing Field, remember: TPA (Traffic Pattern Altitude) RWY 13L/31R 1000 MSL; RWY 13R/31L 800MSL. Also the circuit is fairly close in to the airport for the long runway due to SEATAC. Check the chart for Restricted and Warning area times by referencing the area name and then the local times of use. Of course NOTAMS will say if there is an exception. Flight following does not guarantee warning of these areas if active.

Useful Websites 1.

US NOTAMS: https://www.notams.jcs.mil/dinsQueryWeb/ 2.

US Weather: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/ 3.

Washington State Aviation Publications: http://wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/Publications/default.htm

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Electronic Advance Passenger Information System—eAPIS All pilots flying to or from the USA must file a eAPIS notice of arrival or departure 1 hour prior to takeoff and must receive “Notice of Receipt of Transmission” by email. So that means you need to do this both ways and still contact US and Canadian customs separately! As the pilot, you need an online account set up; this may not be instantaneous to set up so don’t leave this to the last minute. Go to: https://eapis.cbp.dhs.gov The forms are fairly self-explanatory but have a few things that may not be obvious:  write aircraft registration as CGKMY not C-GKMY Spitfire on take off  Don’t worry too much about border crossing location. I usually just put “Discovery Island—10 miles southeast— 10:20 local”  For aircraft operator and owner/lessee information you will have to write out the same info twice if renting a club airplane  If just doing a day trip, you still need to enter an address for each crew/pax.

Look up the address of the FBO you will be parking at, or terminal at the airport  I suggest doing the eAPIS well in advance in case you don’t have access to the internet at the airport.  If arriving or departing at a smaller airport not recognized by the eAPIS system, you are supposed to enter the ICAO identifier for the nearest airport that is on the airport list, then put a remark under arrival/departure description  You cannot cancel or amend a eAPIS after submitted. You must complete a new eAPIS if you: change the arriving/ departing airport, add new pax or crew, change aircraft. If you are simply late or will be early, you can just call and inform customs if flying to the US.  It’s acceptable to have more pax on the manifest than you show up with, but not the other way around. So if you have a friend that might come along, add them.

Thanks to Laura Van Buskirk for the great photos from flights to the US. Top: Friday Harbour Bottom: Seattle

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“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 individuals did safely land said flying machines at Victoria International Airport, incurring no significant damage to self or machine, thus completing first solo flights.”

Peter Massicotte Instructor: Yasuhiro Koide

Fly-Out ~ July 31-August 2 Fishing—Hiking—Kayaks—Canoes—Mountain Bikes For reservations, contact the lodge: 250-392-5612 or brebner@shaw.ca For more information, contact Tristan Nano: tristannano@gmail.com 250-519-0051

Open 8am4pm daily

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Join us for breakfast or lunch...inside or patio

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Some pictures taken at a fly in breakfast I went to at Lacombe airport, Alberta on June 6. Over 80 aircraft descended at this uncontrolled strip, monitored by a well seasoned Unicom operator. It is a regular summer occurrence in southern Alberta for fly in breakfasts at various small airports. Apart from the contingent of aviators, there was a huge community turn out, lots of kids in awe at all the sights, sounds and smells. Not to mention a generous round of pancakes, eggs and sausages for only $6. ~ Alan Johnston Photos listed clockwise from top left: Fairchild 24 Cessna 190 Beech 18, restored and owned by Sunwest Aviation (Calgary) Cessna L19 birddog

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Marie Woodruff sums up a great day of flight planning, flying, weather, and alternate destinations on Victoria Day. Target: Williams Lake…halfway up the province. “We’ll give it a try and see where we end up.” Getting there via Campbell River was ruled out (weather) so we’ll stop at Pemberton and see how things are…but there’s no fuel there.

Kim, Colin, Sam and Ted were in PFW. Marie W. joined Tim Hamblin and Don D. in KMY. 11:10-12:37 – to Pemberton (Tim) Colin led the way as we left Victoria.

Marie did some filming for Tim on his camcorder, and took many other photos (including the four in this article). We also got some shots of Whistler “postOlympics” (it seems so long ago now…).

As we came into YPS, we noticed the radio-control club flying their models beside the runway. A couple of gliders were also in the area, but nothing conflicted with us.

Ted flew PFW on this leg.

We arrived at Lillooet: the wind was blowing 15 knots straight down the runway. After refuelling, the pilots headed for the operations shack to plan the next move.

13:00-13:46 – to Lillooet (Don) We were off again...briefly: Don saw a fuel reading he did not like and we turned back. (Tim and Marie spotted a bear as we turned onto final – Don was a bit too busy to notice any wildlife).

The pilots rechecked the tanks, keeping in mind the note on KMY’s panel which states, “Fuel quantity indication may be unreliable”. It was: we were fine.

KMY stayed at 4500’ and navigation was easy – follow the BC Railway.

There’s Birkenhead Mountain, and the town of the same name. Then Devine and D’Arcy.

Kim with Chris, Lillooet’s airport man, and a Mooney owner 14:45-15:29 – to Cache Creek (Tim) Sam took this leg for PFW: north to Clinton/ Pavilion and then south to Cache Creek. We chatted on the intercom and the radio, since we were within audio and visual range. This trip was quite relaxed, and our cameras were busy. The weather at Cache Creek was fine: high cloud, but windy.

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Naturally, being up there put us into the cloud, but the benefit is: we’re above the mountains. The outside air temperature was 17º F (not C). A nasty combination of head-and-crosswind robbed us of 30 knots and used more fuel than we wanted to. We started our descent after about half an hour: pick up some 100LL at Hope.

YHE is a very welcome sight after people (including flyers) have gone down the formidable Fraser Canyon.

Easily avoiding the four gliders in the circuit, we touched down on that lovely grass strip at the bend in the Fraser.

Cache Creek’s airfield elevation is 2,034’ASL. You will find the following: two hangars, fuel, and ops shack with phone, no running water, and a couple of port-a-pots. A private home is just off the property.

Tim spotted more wildlife: as he parked the plane, he saw what looked like a cat but was really a gopher (it didn’t stick around very long).

We can’t do Williams Lake, so the pilots filed their flight plans back to Victoria. Sorry to say, the headwind was about the same as in Lillooet: horizontal windsocks!

16:09 to 17:43 – to Victoria Chilliwack Hope (Don) Ted will follow the river VFR and planned to stop at Chilliwack.

Don planned this leg IFR. We took off Runway 15 and circled the area, climbing to 8000’ before proceeding on course.

Check the flagpole!!! No wind.

We fuelled yet again and took off for home, using Flight Following and staying VFR at 4500’.

17:58 to 19:00 – to Victoria (Don) A brief, intense rain shower near Chilliwack caused Don to quote, “Aviate, Navigate, and Communicate”… in that order. We didn’t try to do any radio transmissions until we were out of the rain.

An extended series of exchanges with Pacific Radio, on 122.5 and 126.7, occupied Don from YCW all the way to the coastline – the paperwork hadn’t quite caught up. We were asked whether we were IFR or VFR. The short answer: Both, at various times.

Down at the Club at 7:00, we were surprised that PFW had landed only a few minutes ahead of us. We all enjoyed supper at Mary’s Bleue Moon Cafe.

We got 8000’ at 4:26 and 10,000’ at 4:33.

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New Members

Achievements

Janos Tronkos

First Solo

CPL Flight Test

Rene Chapman

Peter Massicotte

John Verbeeten Nick Oakley

Joseph Law

PPL Flight Test

Keegan Rink

Daniel VanDoormal

Mike Oliver

Imran Ismail

Mike Markicevic

Cydney MacNeill Class IV Instructor

Joseph Kachanovsky Mike Sugimoto

PPL Licence

Written

Mike Oliver

Dirk Pritchard

Group 1 IFR Rating

VFR OTT

Jessica McLaggan

Allan Lynch

Glenn Lindsey Brett Wingerter Peter Drysdale Craig Roberts Branden Cameron

Wouldn’t you rather be flying?

Abdoulmoulla Algazal

Tax and financial planning

Brayden Gale Peter Root

Rapid refunds (electronic filing)

Henry Perry

Personal, corporate and estate tax

Adrian Dober Stefan Wanner

OWNER Evelyn J. Andrews-Greene, CA VFC Sustaining Member since 1983

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WELCOME TO THE VICTORIA FLYING CLUB

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To Identify the aircraft above, please email: thepatrician@shaw.ca

Last Month’s Mystery

Thanks to Daryl Williams, Herb Mueller, Kurt Alisch, Walt Salmaniw, Mark Lee, Bob Whitaker, Andrew Harton, Alistair Crooks, Harold Locke, and Mike Ketler for correctly identifying last month’s mystery.

The Hawker Hunter fighter produced in the UK during the 1950s and 1960s. Supersonic in a shallow dive, it was used by the RAF and many other air forces. This one is ex Swiss Air force who retained and upgraded the type until the 1990s. It was being flown by a Canadian Company called Northern Lights who used this and others on contract to DND until replaced by the Alphajets that are a familiar sight at YYJ .

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Family Fun. Plenty of parking on site.

Admission by donation. Fly-ins welcome.

Pancake breakfast at 08:30. Hamburgers and hot dogs available from noon until 16:00 Come and see our large collection of vintage civilian and military aircraft exhibits including a newly restored Auster and a Lincoln Sport biplane plus a Vickers Viscount which is under restoration.

There will also be aircraft from the Canadian Armed Forces, Viking Air, Vancouver Island Helicopters and others all on static display outside.

Scale model aircraft and ships will be on display inside our hangar.

British Columbia Aviation Museum Victoria Airport (CYYJ) 1910 Norseman Road

The Victoria Flying Club will be offering sightseeing flights for $35.

A draw will be made each hour for a free flight.

Annual Open House and Fly-in

For vintage car buffs, the local Torque Masters club will bring their beautifully restored vehicles for display.

Saturday, August 7, 2010 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Fore further information, please call the BC Aviation Museum at 250-655-3300 or visit our website at: www.bcam.net

Wings Night Wednesday, July 7th Book an aircraft on June 9th after 5pm and you’ll get a special discounted aircraft rental rate. AND…if that isn’t enough, we’ll have Dakota Café’s famous wings for you and your passengers! Great food and great rates on flying….does it get any better???

Book your plane now!

Food - no flying: $5.00

“Burgers & Bounces” Wednesday, July 21st While you’re up flying perfecting your short field technique or touring friends over the city, we’ll be hard at work on the barbecue cooking up burgers, hot dogs and all the fixin’s so you can have a bite to eat when you get back. And yes! The food for you and your passengers is

Discounted Rental Rates 152 Rate Flying Member Sustaining Member

$100 $95

172 Rate Flying Member Sustaining Member

$115 $110

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Monday and Wednesday Evenings 1900—2200 Date

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Instructor

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Canadian Aviation Regulations Canadian Aviation Regulations Meteorology Meteorology Meteorology Meteorology Meteorology Meteorology Human Factors and Pilot Decision Making Flight Operations Flight Operations Navigation Navigation Navigation

Yasuhiro Koide Yasuhiro Koide Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Brad Fraser Yasuhiro Koide Yasuhiro Koide Jeff Lightheart Jeff Lightheart Jeff Lightheart

For more information, to sign-up for groundschool, or to purchase your groundschool kit, please contact the office of the Victoria Flying Club 250-656-2833

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Aircraft - Accommodation - Aviation Books and Gear - Help Wanted - Miscellaneous To meet the deadline for next month’s issue, email your FREE ad by the 15th of each month to: thepatrician@shaw.ca

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Victoria CYYJ, north hangars, 1640 TTSN, Compressions March 2010 77/76/76/77, All tech logs from new, Delivered to Canada when new, No damage history, Fresh annual April 7, 2010, Original P&I 7/10, Wheel pants, New Starter in 2008, Mags redone in 2008, Trim actuator OH in 2008, H model Lycoming crankshaft, AD inspection/mods done at hr 1175 yr 2002, Long Range Tanks 50 gal, Wingtip Strobes, RH opening window, Fuel Steps, Useful load 824 lbs.

Avionics : PMA 6000 Audio Panel includes 4 place Intercom, Bendix/King KMD-150 Colour Moving Map GPS, Dual MX 385 ILS/VOR, Cessna 300 XPDR/ENC Cessna 300 ADF Quarter Share in Ltd. Company — $17,600 Extensive shareholder agreement with operational bylaws Re-engine plan is new 180hp STC in 2-4 years Contact: Bill McAllister 250-882-3838 whmcallister@hotmail.com

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RADIO REPAIR NEEDED I've owned a Radio Shack Jetstream handheld radio for years and it needs to be repaired. It receives AM and the aviation frequencies, and uses a single 9-volt battery. I used to take it to Hytek downtown, but they closed about 4 years ago. Is anyone out there able to fix it? I've already checked with the museum and various electronic shops and they're unable to fix it. This unit is around 17 years old and I don't want to retire it. Thanks very much. I can be contacted at 592-5371.

E-mail is woodruffmlca@yahoo.ca or bccasarahistory@yahoo.ca

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Skills and Experience: Minimum 1 year programming with VB.Net, C#, Client Server applications, ASP.NET Experience with Visual Studio, VSS, MS SQL Server Other: Full Time / Start: Immediate - Location: Victoria Airport - Compensation: Commensurate with skills and experience Direct all inquiries to: careers@genavsystems.com

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