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THE PATRICIAN JUNE 2015

The Victoria Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946

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THE PATRICIAN JUNE 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.”

(Victoria Flying Club Incorporation Bylaws, 1946)

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VFC’s Seaplane Simulator

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COPA Updates

6 B17 - Sentimental Journey - Pt. 2

7 Fleet Captain Corner - Steve Demy

9 BC Airport Challenge Updates

Board of Directors President...................................Ramona Reynolds Vice President...................................Howard Peng Secretary......................................Colin Williamson Treasurer.............................................Rob Shemilt Directors............................................. Steve Demy Firat Ataman

Vernon Fischer

Rolf Hopkinson General Manager.................................Gerry Mants Chief Flying Instructor....................Graham Palmer

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CADORS Corner Graham Palmer

1852 Canso Road Sidney, BC V8L 5V5

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Feedback - The Breakfast of Champions - Tracey Burns

www.flyvfc.com info@flyvfc.com

16 May Open House Photos

Phone: 250-656-2833 Fax: 250-655-0910

Editor: Christie Hall thepatrician@shaw.ca Midnight Design & Communication info@midnightdesign.ca

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In This Issue

The Patrician accepts unsolicited submissions.

This publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, with prior permission of the publisher or author. The opinions expressed are strictly those of the authors.

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News from VFC

VFC News

Save Money While You Fly! Early morning and evening flying is not only beautiful and calm, it’s also more affordable!

Before you book your next flight, have a look at the chart below, and choose the time slot that works best for your budget.

SUNDAY, June 7 1300-1700 COST: $75 Full details available at Dispatch.

VFC Alumni Tell us your story! We would love to hear from more VFC Alumni. Remember back when you were a student pilot?

Hearing from people working in the industry is incredibly helpful, and an important part of making future career decisions.

Get out there and enjoy some amazing summer flying!

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

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Send us a photo and an update, and we’ll be happy to share it. Whether your flying is local, international, if your plane is big or small, tell us your story and share your experiences with the next generation of pilots!

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Send photos, letters, articles, or other updates to: thepatrician@shaw.ca

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VFC News

World’s First Full-Motion Seaplane Flight Simulator:

Victoria Flying Club Still Leading The Way in Local Flight Training After 70 Years An ambitious technical upgrade to current equipment has lead the Victoria Flying Club to unveil the world’s first full-motion Seaplane Training Device, and the aviation industry is taking note.

VFC Chief Flight Instructor Graham Palmer is pleased with the new developments. “With the technical savvy and expertise of VFC member Peter Lagergren blazing the way, we have made several advances within the flight training world. Through accurate aerodynamic software calibration improvements, Peter has enhanced the fidelity and performance capabilities of all aircraft configurations we offer. With the augmented visual graphic software created by Don Grovestine, VFC’s FMX provides the most advanced and realistic experience possible.

Additionally, through several software and hardware reconfigurations, VFC’s FMX has become the world’s first ‘full motion Seaplane Flight Training Device’.”

The Redbird FMX has delivered unmatched training value for Victoria Flying Club members and a one-of-a kind experience to the general public for the past five years. It is currently the only Transport Canada Certified Simulator of its kind on Vancouver Island, providing synthetic training realism for Private, Night, Commercial, and Instrument Pilots.

While not a replacement for training in an actual aircraft, pilots of all levels can hone their primary or advanced flight skills in a device which provides accurate motion

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feedback. With the FMX’s electrohydraulic motion platform and wrap-around visuals, it offers million dollar realism at a fraction of the cost of all other commercially available simulators. And now, for the first time ever, the Victoria Flying Club’s Redbird FMX offers a Seaplane training option, currently unavailable anywhere else in the world.

This cutting edge development will expand the Victoria Flying Club’s already successful Seaplane training program offered at the Victoria Airport’s Seaplane Base at nearby Patricia Bay. With the addition of a Seaplane-capable simulator, pilots training towards a Seaplane Rating can benefit from several simulated water handling scenarios including all forms of water taxiing and docking under a multitude of conditions, in addition to gaining practice with take-offs and landings. Full-motion Seaplane simulation has never been done before, and the advances made by VFC have caught the attention of the developers at Redbird; In turn, VFC has agreed to assist in beta testing Redbird’s development of a “Wide Area Augmentation Service” (WASS), a technology found within modern aircraft GPS systems.

The man behind this incredible local development is Peter Lagergren, pilot, physicist, and proud VFC member. A transplanted American with a 40 year research and development career in satellite data communication, Lagergren’s accomplishments also include a Commercial Pilot Licence and

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4000+ flight hours, including 275 Cobra combat missions in Vietnam, and 500 hours as an advanced phase military IP. He also flew as the solo man in a three ship T-28 aerobatic airshow team.

As a member of the Victoria Flying Club, Lagergren noticed some quirks in the programming of the Redbird Simulator. “I started working on the sim,” says Lagergren, “because I couldn’t hand fly it in IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions) and that just didn’t seem right. I was immediately elected ‘the sim guy’ by acclamation.” Lagergren has since spent countless hours working with VFC staff, and the experts at Redbird, to enhance the performance of the Redbird FMX, and to add the additional Seaplane capabilities currently available only at VFC. Lagergren is pleased with the final result, and says the Seaplane simulation is “a great way for experienced float plane pilots to renew their skills before going out on the water and a great way for float plane beginners to experience it all before doing it for real.” Additionally, this highly skilled pilot and scientist is fully enjoying his experience at the Victoria Flying Club. “I think VFC is the coolest organization that I have been involved with.

Super professional and really nice people. A safe place to fly.”

VFC President and pilot Ramona Reynolds echoes Lagergren’s sentiments. “The Victoria Flying Club is in its seventieth year of training commercial and private pilots, and the people here are what really

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VFC News make this such an amazing organization. As a not-for-profit, our members own the Club, and we love it when members get involved like Peter has. We are very grateful for his time and expertise, and excited by his contribution to our training facility. Having a fullmotion Seaplane simulator on-site is an incredible accomplishment and a great asset for our members. We feel confident that this latest technological advancement will help us continue in our role as a local, national, and international leader in flight training for another seventy years and beyond.”

We asked Peter Lagergren to chat with us a bit more about his work in the simulator. He’s been a busy guy! His level of understanding of this complex technology is unbelieveable. Thank you Peter, for sharing your time and talents with us!

We truly appreciate it!

Notes From The Crypt Peter Lagergren

So when you have the power of the keyboard you can do things just because they seem to be the right thing to do, so I changed the background colors of the simulator screens to blue so now when you get into the sim it doesn’t feel like you’re crawling into someones sepulcher. Small things matter.

So when I had light on the subject I got to work on what are called “handling qualities”, which are hard to define quantitatively, but are easy to see in action. Some airplanes fly sweetly and pilots love them and some fly like dogs and pilots more or less put up with

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them. The history of aviation is littered with dogs and roses so it isn’t too much to expect a simulator would follow the same rules.

Our FMX-1000 is really a different flavor from the airline and military simulation platforms, because we the people don’t have that kind of money to spend. What I found fascinating in this process has been learning about the “simmer” community, which is everything from guys sitting around in their underwear dreaming of being Buck Rogers to serious fliers who use simulator software to maintain their awareness of places they are going to fly into and want to practice procedures before doing the real thing. For the Buck types, think Homer Simpson and for the serious ones, Air Canada pilots on a layover in Berlin wanting to brush up on Charles de Gaulle airport for tomorrows flight.

Microsoft spent untold millions producing an amazing piece of software called appropriately enough, Microsoft Flight Simulator and they sold tens of millions of them and plowed a lot of the profit back into it to make the software incredibly flexible and, for the most part, true to life. The basic equations used in aerospace engineering are the core of the simulation, and while the simplifications used to make it usable by the public won’t let you design an airplane using it, it can be made to fly everything from a

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CF-18 to a Piper Cub on floats.

The operative term here is what is called “fidelity”, which describes how well a simulation mirrors the actual machine and that is a tricky thing to do. In the big, multi-million dollar sims, you get to have a few software engineering types, who are usually experienced pilots, hang around and put the finishing touches on your big investment.

Obviously, you can’t afford to do that with a general aviation simulator so the customer, that’s us, has to do it themselves.

So that is what we, including myself and most of the instructors on the staff have been doing. The process is somewhat empirical but based on sound engineering principles. Once we had the basic aerodynamics of each of our airplanes sorted out, we spent a lot of time working on the software controls that do stability and control effectiveness. Once that was done we had a working set of software that the FMX-1000 can use to fly our airplanes in enough fidelity to the real aircraft that experienced pilots can fly it without heartburn. This also means we can do some ab initio training in the sim and reduce the amount of time it takes for students to grasp the fundamentals of aircraft control. Transport Canada has approved our FMX-1000 for a variety of uses, both IFR and VFR and the time is legally logged. A true time and money saver.

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VFC News

B-17 ‘Sentimental Journey’ - Part Two The Victoria Flying Club is looking forward to hosting the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force this coming Summer August 10th - 17th with their Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ‘Sentimental Journey’. As this is a Flying Tour, the B-17 will be available for flights, and when not airborne available for touring on static display.

This year the Victoria Flying Club is calling upon members to act as volunteers to assist in making this year’s week-long visit an even greater success.

For anyone interested in helping out with the visit of this historic aircraft, please email Graham at graham.palmer@flyvfc.com.

Continued from last month...

On January 14, 1978, at a membership banquet for the newly formed Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, Colonel Mike Clarke announced the donation of the retired B-17, to the Arizona Wing of the CAF.

B-17G Sentimental Journey entered service with the CAF in 1978. Arizona Wing members immediately undertook the chores of cleaning, polishing and repainting WW II markings and bringing the ship into excellent mechanical condition. They also initiated extensive crew training so that Sentimental Journey was prepared to fly with the CAF fleet.

But even the aircraft’s excellent condition wasn’t enough. Four operational turrets, operational bomb bay doors, navigator and radio operator stations, Norden bomb sight and machine guns were required to restore Sentimental Journey as an authentic Flying Fortress.

Most people would have been content to continue the project bit by bit over several years but the Arizona Wing members were eager to complete the

restoration of all military systems used on the B-17’s during WW II. In December 1981, the Wing voluntarily grounded the airplane to undertake the restoration.

Early projects included restoration and repainting in combat color, installation of the chin and ball turrets and restoration of the navigator’s station back to original condition. Members soon learned that restoring an airplane meant trips to junkyards, bargaining, trading or begging anyone who had a needed item, or contacting businesses that might be able to fabricate parts that could not be located. By the end of 1981, they were ready to put all the pieces together.

Watch for Part Three of the B-17 in next month’s issue.

A contest initiated by local media to name the aircraft resulted in more than 800 entries, and the ultimate selection of the name Sentimental Journey. The decision was made to use the most famous pinup picture of World War II for the nose art. Permission was secured from widower Harry James to add Betty Grable in her most tantalizing pose to grace the newly acquired bomber..

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Feature Article

FleetCaptain Corner FleetCaptain - The Front Counter Interface Helping smooth the rental experience

DeÞning your Flight Mission FleetCaptain needs to understand your mission so it can select the best plane for you.

If you plan to do accelerated stalls for example, you need a plane that is conÞgured for ßight in the utility category. If you’re carrying a heavy load, you may need a lower fuel level.

You can use the Front Counter Interface to enter your mission data.

What is the ßight duration today?

How many people, what do they weigh, in which seats? Baggage? And Transport Canada requires that the ßight exercises are documented for training ßights, where no such requirement exists for recreational ßights. FleetCaptain looks at your activity and requires the exercise data only if it is needed. All the information can be entered into the system at your leisure. When you’re in a hurry, doing pre-ßight preparations, dealing with passengers, getting a transponder code, Þling a ßight plan … that’s no time to be in line at a busy dispatch counter. You can put your mission into FleetCaptain where the dispatcher can then retrieve it with one click, have the system select a plane, print a Flight Authority form and get you on your way.

What does this mean to you?

You will save time and and enjoy a more relaxed pre-ßight routine. The dispatcher will save time and avoid transcription errors. While youÕre at the iPad, you can check weather, Þle a ßight plan whatever you want.

Remember that entering a mission is not the same as making a reservation. A plane is not reserved or dispatched when you enter your data. But when youÕre ready to ßy, go see the dispatcher and expect speedy service. Give it a try. ItÕs one small step toward making our operation as smooth and effective as it can be.

Steve Demy

ATPL, ATP (multi), B. Eng. (Electrical) Victoria Flying Club - Director Columbia 300 driver FleetCaptain - Developer sndaviation.com

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First Solos

FIRST SOLOS

Andrew Matheson Instructor: Brendan O’Hare

Brenden Manahan Instructor: Brady Tucker

Connor Neilly Instructor: Colin Brown

Roderick Mahrt Instructor: Brady Tucker “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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BC Airport Challenge

THE 2015 BC AIRPORT CHALLENGE Summer’s Here - Let’s Pick Up The Pace!

Current Standings: Club Aircraft

Summer is here, and it’s a GREAT time to jump into the 2015 BC Airport Challenge if you haven’t already started. Every airport you visit is a chance for amazing monthly prizes, and every time you fly with a non-pilot friend, they get entered to win a Discovery Flight!

There’s a lot of red on the map still. Over 50 airports yet to be visited by our members this year.

Is there somewhere you’ve always wanted to go? Now’s your chance. Even better... find a friend or meet someone new June 2015

and get a group together for the flight. Post your proposed destination on VFC’s Facebook group page, and invite other pilots to join you!

Don’t forget the 2015 99s Poker Run is coming up on Sunday June 14. Not only is it a super fun event, but it’s a great way to cross a few airports off your “must visit” list for the year - as many as nine in a single day!

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1 Ian B (7) 2 Don D (5) 3 Ron J (5) 4 BJ C (4) 5 Rustom A (4) 6 Silvia Z (4) 7 Brett W (3) 8 Colin W (3) 9 Cortland R (3) 10 Doug N (3) 11 Jamie W (3) 12 Jessica J (3) 13 Tom V (3) 14 Bill K (2) 15 Brenda M (2) 16 Callum E (2) 17 Crystal S (2) 18 Duncan C (2) 19 Howard P (2) 20 Joey M (2) 21 Scot E (2) Owner Aircraft 1 John L (4) 2 Dave W (3) 3 Simon C (2) Safe flying everyone!

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COPA Quadrant

Submitted by: Eleanor Eastick

As always there was a nice turnout for the May 5th COPA Flight 6 meeting. The featured entertainment was several videos illustrating landings, take-offs and other close-tothe-ground manoeuvres. It all made for great hangar-flying as everyone had something to say and a lively discussion carried on for some time. A fun learning experience!

The next meeting of Flight 6 will be held on Tuesday, June 2nd at the VFC lounge.

The guest speaker is Jeff Morris, Chief Executive Officer and Manager of Flight Operations, Angel Flight, Victoria. Jeff is a truly good and interesting speaker with his wide range of experience in aviation. His passion is Angel Flight, a charitable, non-profit organization that provides air transportation for cancer patients needing medical services at hospitals and centralized medical care

facilities in Vancouver and Victoria. Angel Flight pilots are volunteers and the service is provided free.

Come to VFC at 7 PM and hear what Jeff has to say about this wonderful organization.

Perhaps you might want to be a volunteer pilot - find out how!

You need not be a COPA member to attend these informative meetings. For more information, contact copaflight6@gmail.com.

Tofino Flyout goes to Qualicum, May 30 Submitted by: Eleanor Eastick While unfortunate that our primary destination of Tofino, didn’t pan out due to weather issues, I think we’re all likely to agree that our alternative destination of Qualicum Beach, made for a thoroughly enjoyable outing.

Don’t miss out on the next Fly-Out! For more information, please contact flyoutbug@gmail.com.

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Feature Article REPRINTED FROM OCTOBER 2013

CADORS CORNER By: Graham Palmer, CFI

Since NAV Canada implemented their “Airspace Redesign” in July 2009 in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Pilots have been plagued with CADORs reports when choosing to navigate through this area without contacting Victoria Tower or Victoria Terminal.

In this month’s column we will focus on the Airspace over the Gulf Islands stretching from the southeast at East Point on Saturna Island towards the northwest along the southern edge of the Strait of Georgia towards Gabriola Island and Nanaimo.

Interoperating the intricacies of the delineation of this Airspace can be challenging at first glance. To the west of East Point at Mt. Warburton Pike on Saturna Island, Victoria Tower Class “D” Airspace begins at 1,200’ up to 2,500’ and extends westward along Saturna, Pender,

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Mayne and Galiano Island up to Ganges Harbour on Saltspring Island. Above this same area, from 2,500’ up to 12,500’ is Victoria Class “C” Airspace which also extends beyond Ganges Harbour northwestward up to Kuper, Thetis, Valdez, and Gabriola Island.

One of the most troublesome and awkward facets of this Airspace is what is referred to by Pilots affectionately as the “Saw Tooth”. Above the Nanaimo Class E Airspace is a “notch” extending the Victoria Terminal Class C Airspace to accomodate IFR traffic on approach to the Nanaimo Airport.

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Feature Article from the various airstrips, and for seaplane traffic operating from the various harbours, and registered water aerodromes, and for helicopters operating from heliports in the Gulf Islands, it appears somewhat more complex. The National Parks of Canada “Aircraft Access Regulations”, prohibit the landing and take-off of aircraft within the boundaries of a National Park. A closer examination of this subject reveals that while this entire area has been delineated as a “National Park” on the Vancouver VTA, in reality this area has been delineated to encompass a proverbial “mine-field” of several smaller Parks as seen in the diagram below. It is within these individual Park Boundaries that aircraft are not permitted to take-off and land without an “Aircraft Access” Permit.

Here, many unknowingly “ChartFolded-Up-and-Put-Away” Pilots transit up and down the Island overhead the Nanaimo Airport without contacting Nanaimo Radio, or Victoria Terminal. Inevitably these Pilots find themself responding to a CADORs Report after violating Airspace.

a voluntary recommendation for “Noise Sensitive Islanders”.

Additionally, what makes this area more interesting is that for over 10 years there has been a Noise Abatement Procedure in effect over the Gulf Islands. Prompted by the Island’s Trust, and published in the Canadian Flight Supplement (CFS) under Planning (C23), this procedure requests Pilots to “Operate their aircraft in the most community friendly manner”, and avoid over-flying the Gulf Islands below 2,000’ ASL unless for the purpose of take-off and landing. Keep in mind that this is not a compulsory requirement by regulation, but is

With the recent release of the 38th Edition of the Vancouver VTA, the “Gulf Islands National Parks Reserve” has been delineated with a magenta line. Interpreting this change guides Pilots towards the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) RAC 1.14.5, which suggests that Pilots should not overfly National, Provincial and Municipal Parks, Reserves and Refuges below 2,000’ AGL. Keep in mind that the only governing regulation is CARs 602.14 “Minimum Altitudes & Distances”, stipulating that over a built-up area that: “Except where conducting take-off, approach and landing that aeroplanes shall be flown no lower than 1000’ above the highest obstacle located within a horizontal distance of 2,000’ from the aeroplane”.

For wheeled aeroplanes operating

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What contributes to the complexity of this topic is that CARs 602.96(4) states: “Unless otherwise authorized by the appropriate air traffic control unit, no pilot-in-command shall operate an aircraft at an altitude of less than 2,000 feet over an aerodrome”.

Keep in mind that there are several marked aerodromes, water aerodromes, and heliports in the Gulf Islands on the Vancouver VTA. Keep in mind that you cannot overfly the Nanaimo Airport without talking to anyone; and regardless of Regulation or recommendation, it is always wisest to plan to overfly the Gulf Islands above 2000’ ASL. Above this altitude, always plan to communicate with Victoria Tower, or Victoria Terminal. And always remember the Airspace golden rule…

“It’s always best to beg ATC for permission, than to answer CADORs for forgiveness”.

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Feature Article

Feedback - The Breakfast of Champions Tracey Burns, Executive Coaching and Consulting It is here that the magic of perspective unfolds. When we are willing to embrace that a perspective other than our own can potentially shine a light on behaviours and/or missing skills that may be getting in the way of our results we can then begin the process of change.

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”

- Kenneth Blanchard What if I asked you, “Are you open to feedback?” Consider your true blue answer to that question. Are you really open to feedback? Are you a thirst for feedback? Are you of the opinion that to see yourself how others see you is a gift?

It sounds simple enough right?

However, it is here that many people fall short and instead the process of giving and receiving feedback (hearing where our gaps lie) creates conflict and upset. Instead, what was intended to be a meaningful conversation elicits defensiveness and resistance.

In an attempt to correct the outcome we often look at “what we said” as the source of breakdown in communication.

Seldom do we address “who were being”. Were you righteous or arrogant in your delivery? What emotion were you present to as you spoke?

In retrospective, what was your true intention for the exchange?

What would change if you shifted your emotion, created a clear intention and then delivered the communication?

As the receiver of feedback, it is important for you to do your part in order to hear the feedback objectively. Let’s look at this further. Think about the conditions under which you best learn? What needs to be present for you? Trust, safety, compassion? An understanding of your learning style? Are you a kinesthetic learner? Visual or auditory? These are all important factors to consider, however another key area that plays a huge role in our ability to process feedback is our past. If we have had a bad or negative experience in receiving feedback this will impact how we receive feedback until we are willing to learn to trust the person, process and result again.

Throughout our careers/life we attend training seminars, workshops and perhaps take complimentary schooling in order to get ahead. Sometimes we are keenly aware of the areas we need to improve and yet other times we are completely oblivious. In other words, our gaps are in our blind spots.

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Feature Article Having considered your own relationship to feedback, consider a situation that involves those we lead.

Committee members, volunteers you lead or maybe even employees. Like you, in order to learn and thrive, their basic, foundational needs must be met. Think of a specific time when you delivered feedback and/or maybe a performance review. Did you provide adequate time for the meeting? What was your mood? What was your state of mind during the process?

Do you have a structured process for giving feedback?

How was the person after the conversation? Empowered and ready to implement change or disempowered and disgruntled?

Remember, the communication exchange between any two people is a “relationship” and as with any relationship, it is important that you have done your part to lay a positive foundation from which the conversation can occur.

It is incredibly important that both the giver and the receiver of feedback ensure that it is not delivered or received in a negatively personal way.

Practice sticking to the facts, provide specific examples where possible and point to the behavior without diminishing the person’s character. Provide follow up and accountability, acknowledge change and encourage those that you lead to shift. Have them get that you want them to thrive.

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Taking time to ensure that your methods of giving and receiving feedback make the difference you intended can have profound effects. Consider what results you and those you lead could produce if all people had not just a positive relationship to feedback but were a demand for it. What would it be like if people asked questions and truly were interested in the answers? “Where do you see I can improve? What stands in the way of me promoting?”

Creating an environment where feedback is trusted and

welcomed encourages people to become life-long learners, promotes innovation and cultivates creativity. Capitalize on opportunities to provide feedback and model the way by regularly engaging in receiving feedback from those you lead no matter how high you climb in your career and/or life accomplishments.

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who `did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

– Charles Schwab Tracey Burns, PCC Executive Coaching & Leadership Development www.TraceyBurns.com Note from the President: All of us at the Victoria Flying Club welcome your feedback!

Please feel free to email directly at president@flyvfc.com if you have any questions or concerns, or if you just want to drop a note to say Hi. Thank you. Ramona

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VFC Achievements

VFC MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS

New Members Ken Lucas John Wiseman Edward Atkinson Bart Casey Ralph Finck Anthony Hull Joel Laurin Edward Peach Andrew Lemieux Alexander MacDougall Josh Poland Spencer Loverock Yi Zhang Margaret Ross Mark Dahl Neil Bennett Lewis Wilson Iain Paul

First Solos Roderick Mahrt Scott Auringer Brenden Manahan Connor Neilly Andrew Matheson

PPL Written Exam Katie Smith Mark Walker PPL Licence Elgin Penner Katie Smith

AIRAF Michael Bahrey

Class IV Instructor Jessica Rabideau A big VFC welcome to our new members, and to those of you achieving great things, we offer heart-felt congratulations! We are so proud of your accomplishments!

CPL Flight Test Thomas Claes

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VFC News

May 9th Open House - A Spring Spectacular!

Our spring open house really was spectacular!

Blue skies, great airplanes, delicious burgers, and a good crowd made for a fun and productive day. The most exciting part of any open house is having the chance to introduce people to VFC, and to aviation.

Thanks to everyone who visited and shared in our open house. Special thanks to the BC Aviation Museum, The Catalina Preservation Society, the "Nanchang guys", and others for sharing their amazing aircraft with us, to CASARA, UVic, Bart Casey and other pilots for being enthusiastic ambassadors of aviation. And to the VFC staff, instructors and members for being generally amazing as always.

If you know someone who missed the open house, but would like to come for a visit, just let us know. We're always happy to show people around and take them up for a life-changing first flight!

Photos: Emma Loewen

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Navigation

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Canadian Aviation Regulations

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Canadian Aviation Regulations

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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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