The Patrician, October 2010

The Patrician VICTORIA FLYING CLUB

OCTOBER 2010

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The Patrician Monthly newsletter of the Victoria Flying Club

OCTOBER 2010

In this issue:

The Victoria Flying Club est. 1946

4 Egress Training

“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)

6 PPL/CPL Groundschool 7 Charlottetown or Bust ~ Wendy Piercy

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

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Victoria Flying Club Sponsors “The Aviators” on CHEK6 TV

By Doug Marin well) was our well qualified and seriously equipped videographer. I sat in the back seat with a TV monitor hooked up to the video camera to direct the shots and positions of our two aircraft. Poor Chris probably has a permanent kink in his back after having to twist around for almost an hour and a half to get shots almost always from behind the strut.

Recently I’ve had the pleasure of Directing and Producing a TV Commercial for The Victoria Flying Club. I found out about a new Aviation TV program being developed by a Canadian production company about a year ago by accident, just surfing the internet for aviation sites. At the time, it was still in production and no deals to air it had been cut with TV stations anywhere. Subscribing to the site for news updates, I was thrilled to see CHEK6 was picking it up. It will now be seen on most Global TV stations in Canada as well as over 200 of 360 PBS stations in the USA. All this provided a great opportunity for the VFC to get an incredible deal from CHEK to be the exclusive Victoria sponsor and advertiser of the program.

A ton of Post Production work continued after the shoot.

On my own time, I developed the TV Storyboard, wrote the script and decided on the best 18 seconds of video required for the total 30 second TV commercial (watching 1.2 hours of tape about 20 times!) Jud Ridout (resident super geek at The Q!) did all the exciting video editing and graphic work on the commercial. Sheldon Huvde (resident audio geek and Creative Director at The Q!) looked after selecting the convincing voice talent and music, eventually producing the whole audio mix.

Our VFC commercial will be broadcast in this new Aviation TV Series that will air on CHEK6 beginning on Wednesday, September 22nd @ 7:30pm and also on Sundays at 10:30pm. It's a 13 week, half hour Program called "The Aviators" that has everything to do with aviation all over North America. For details see www.theaviatorstv.com . The show is really impressive.

You’re going to want to set your PVR’s to “Automatic Record” so you don’t miss a thing !

All in all, you can judge for yourself how a bunch of “Radio Guys” managed to pull off developing a “TV Spot.” We’re reasonably proud ! So be sure to see the Aviators on CHEK6 beginning on September 22nd and TELL YOUR FRIENDS ! You can also see the VFC Commercial on You Tube at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us6T-koB7w4

Why We Advertise

Production of The VFC Commercial

Our twice yearly “Open House” multi-media advertising campaigns have consistently drawn more new students and members from the community than if we did nothing at all. Advertising establishes our club as a “Brand Name” for those interested in flying. Did you know we have over 30 people in our Private Pilot Ground School right now? Advertising separates us from competition not only locally but internationally by virtue of our website alone.

Our local radio and print campaigns have always been successful and now we have added a TV component. Advertising helps our club pay for additional aircraft, flight simulators and other services we offer by attracting candidates for either recreational or professional programs. Quite simply, it’s necessary and it works.

From noon until about 5 pm on Saturday, August 22 nd, our Production and Pilot crew of five people, flight planned for formation flying and ground videography, then shot video footage from C-GINH over downtown Victoria and along the Western Coast of the island. Footage is of our formation flight in Cessna 182 (C-GRJW) owned by VFC club member Steve Long and piloted by our very own Graham Palmer. RJW is brand new and beautiful. Steve handled the radios, and maybe swallowed his tongue when Graham did the Wing Over’s for the shoot !

Jeff Lightheart was our competent "Photoship" pilot, and Chris Loran (from The Q! radio station where I work as

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On September 10&11th, 2010 Sam Roland once again performed with great aerobatic success, earning him a third place finish in the Sportsman Class of the Apple Turnover competition in Ephrata Washington. Congratulations Sam!

This is the sequence of manoeuvres that Sam flew in the most recent competition. Note: These manoeuvres require many hours of instruction and training.

1)Steep Climb (45 degree) 2) 1-1/2 turn Competition Spin 3) Reverse Half-Cuban 4) Quarter Cloverleaf 5) Hammerhead with 1/4 roll on the Downline 6) Reverse Sharktooth 7) Humpty-Bump 8) Immelmann 9) Goldfish 10) Slow roll Everyone flies this sequence three times, over the course of two days. The sequence preferably stays within the "aerobatic box" http://www.iac.org/begin/ aerobatic_box.html The "How to Begin" tab at that website is also good source for general information about aerobatics too.

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Bryan Webster of Aviation Egress Systems is offering pilot and passenger Egress Training in Victoria on Friday October 29, 2010.

This one-day training session will offer three hours of classroom training followed by three hours of practical training at the Crystal Pool. The training will include basic survival skills, life vests, life rafts, dunker simulators, snacks, beverage, pizza, and on completion a certificate. For the cost of $275.00 plus HST per student.

Students are requested to bring a towel, clothing to dunk in including pool friendly foot wear and a adventurous attitude.

If you're interested in enrolling contact Bryan at 250.704.6401 or e-mail info@dunkyou.com In addition, you can peruse the AES website at www.dunkyou.com

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

Last Month’s Mystery This the Soviet Air Force Mil-24 assault helicopter (NATO name "Hind") which was introduced in 1972 and still active.

Congratulations to Jordan Byng, Dan Waldie, Stefan Kaban, and Mike Ketler for correctly identifying the September Mystery Aircraft.

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Monday and Wednesday Evenings 1900—2200 Date

Topic

Instructor

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Meteorology Meteorology Meteorology Meteorology Human Factors and Pilot Decision Making Flight Operations Flight Operations

Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Brad Fraser Yasuhiro Koide Yasuhiro Koide

Oct 15 16 17 22 23 24 29 30 31 31 Nov 05 06 06 07

1700-2100 0830-1700 0830-1700 1700-2100 0830-1700 0830-1700 1700-2100 0830-1700 0830-1700 1300-1700 1700-2100 0830-1230 1300-1700 0830-1700

Radio/Electronic Theory Licencing Requirements/CARS Theory of Flight/Aerodynamics Meteorology Meteorology Meteorology Flight Operations Navigation Navigation GPS Airframes and Engines Systems and Flight Instruments Human Factors/Pilot Decision Making Crew Resource Management

Dave Kupchenko Dave Kupchenko Yasuhiro Koide Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Simon Dennis Jeff Lightheart Jeff Lightheart Jeff Lightheart Graham Palmer Dave Kupchenko Dave Kupchenko Brad Fraser Brad Fraser

To sign up for Groundschool, or to purchase your Groundschool Kit, please contact the Victoria Flying Club Office at 250-656-2833.

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My husband has a passion for aviation. He has a passion for me too but I do not delude myself as to his priority! I earned my VFR license to avoid becoming an aviation widow – metaphorically speaking – akin to a golf widow.

We have flown across Canada many times in our Mooney M20C and have had many adventures. I call these trips marital maintenance. This past summer we flew to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. ~ Wendy Piercy spectacular as usual as they rose majestically high above a cotton batten cloud base. for takeoff" Minutes later we were After refuelling we jumped back airbound en route to Regina. The into the plane and closed the door weather was picture perfect and it was tightly. We were all set to taxi down predicted to be ok through to the runway when Bruce remembered Lethbridge. Suddenly I was aware of that he had forgotten to remove the quite a feisty breeze ruffling my hair chocks from the front wheel. There is from above. I looked up and noticed only one door in our plane and it's on my door had a 3" gap and very cold air my side. Therefore it was up to me to Photo Credit: ~ visionphotographyvictoria@gmail.com was blowing in andJen it Knapp was getting unstrap myself and get out and remove colder as we climbed. Bruce said not to the offending chocks. However I worry about it- he turned the heater couldn't open the door - it was on and we carried on. Of course the jammed shut! Bruce had closed it so cold air was blowing directly down on securely to avoid another gap that it MY head but over in his little corner he had jammed and now we were was toasty warm. As we got up to prisoners inside the plane with no way 11000 feet we attached our oxygen of moving forward or back. He radioed nasal prongs (NOT a pretty sight) My to the Esso station for help and many little head was very cold so I put up my hot minutes later the gas jockey came hood and covered my head with a out grinning a “stoopid old geezers” fleece - also not a pretty picture. This smile and tried to open the door from was very effective actually. his side - no luck. Even with Bruce Somewhere over the Rockies my in pushing and him pulling it wouldn't flight services were required for the budge! Finally Bruce gave him the key pilot to relieve himself. With my life to the door through a small vent from jacket, oxygen, headset, and my fleece the cabin and lo and behold when he over my head I could barely move let tried that it worked and we were free! alone complete the acrobatic YAY! Finally we were off again and movements necessary for my own Bruce had a lovely time flying through personal relief. We flew at 13000 feet all kinds of cloud cover en route to over the Rockies which were Regina. It was fairly turbulent but no

Saturday, June 19, 2010, YYJ Tower - "Tango India Juliet, is cleared

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problem and by 3:30pm we were in Regina being met by our good friends.

Monday June 21 After two days of sublime overindulgence we left Regina. En route to Dryden we had another 3 " gap on my door. This really doesn't present a major problem in term of aerodynamics but it is a little disconcerting when we fly through cloud and I feel raindrops falling on my head. Three 1/2 hours later we landed in Dryden to refuel and were met on the ground by a guy from Esso with a Kabuto ATV who drove us to the Esso shack. There was a Flair Air B737 on the ground taking on police officers who were en route to Toronto for the G-8! The guys at Esso were fun one of them said he had to leave to buy a $1400 wedding dress and without missing a beat the other one said "Bob, I just don't see you in a dress!" They even made me a fresh pot of coffee to drink while Bruce did his flight plan. Small town Canada - you gotta love it!

ATC cleared us to fly direct to Kapaskasing which was hard IFR - zero visibility and lots of turbulence. On the occasional time I was able to look through the cloud there was no road to be seen anywhere - not reassuring!

However Bruce was happy as this was exactly the type of flying for which he has trained so hard. Two and a half hours later we arrived in Kapuskasing - one very long day!

Typically we met a friendly soul at the airport who suggested where we should stay and he drove us in to town. We had dinner at the Sunshine Cafe adjacent to a tavern where you had to order your food in the cafe and they brought it into the bar. Canada's liquor laws are so crazy!

Tomorrow we head off to Quebec City.

Tuesday June 22 For the edification of the reader I should explain a bit about our physical comfort aboard the Mooney.

Basically there is none! Picture this the cabin is about 4 ft wide and we sit side by side with elbows touching not in a romantic way! Our legs can extend which is a good thing and we do have a good heater which helps when your head is gradually turning into a snow globe from the 3" gap at the top of the door especially noticeable when we fly through hail!

The back seat is packed with bags needed for our stay in PEI, emergency supplies, tons of maps, our lunch, water, other goodies and of course the ultra necessary washroom facilities. In our seats all we can do is move forward or back and I can't do that because the Oxygen tank is taking up all the room behind my seat. Just getting in to the Mooney requires a lot of contortional ability as you have to twist and drop into your seat.

Before take-off from Kapuskasing we tested the door only to find it had stuck again so we had to frantically flag someone down to help us. Fortunately an aviation mechanic came to our rescue with his handy dandy can of silicone spray. We practiced a couple of times after he

gave the door a liberal dose and everything seemed ok again. So off we went en route to Quebec City. We flew at 9000 ft. in hard IFR most of the way with the unwelcome addition of heavy rain. As long as I could see that the artificial horizon looked stable and our elevation and airspeed indicator were ok I was reassured. I am also reading "The Prayer of Owen Meaney" while en route and it has to be the best book ever written. Even in scary situations I find myself giggling hysterically over the wonderful prose in this book!

At one point during the turbulence I had need of the washroom facilities. I had to take my seatbelt off, turn around and face the back of the plane while positioning myself appropriately. Usually this is fairly easy but on this occasion we hit severe turbulence and I was pitched forward off my "perch". My head hit the roof of the plane and I ended half bent over the seat still madly clutching the urinal and killing myself laughing.

We were both laughing so much it was hard to finish with any degree of dignity and reposition myself with a minimum of "spillage". Boy if this doesn't count for marital maintenance I don't know what does!

We continued to fly through cloud until about 15 minutes before Quebec City where the weather was clear and hot. We parked the plane at Aeropro where people were very helpful and friendly. They advised us and booked a reservation for us at a hotel in the Old Port which was just lovely. It was called Le Germain Dominion and I would go back there in a heartbeat - lovely little boutique hotel charmingly renovated. We had dinner at a wonderful Italian restaurant called Matto and then wandered around the Old Port savouring the ambience. What a lovely finish to the day! I would love to come

back to Quebec some day and spend a lot of time taking it in. This province is a gem in Canada - it is like having France in your backyard with all of the same charm you find there wonderful food, wine, fashion and sophistication.

Wednesday, June 23 When we arrived at Aeropro this morning we were met by a lot of very long faces and TV cameras. Apparently a Twin KingAir had just crashed killing all 7 people aboard - very sobering! Bruce knew the weather was getting worse and he wanted to get ahead of it as much as possible so we carried on.

Again we flew at 9000 ft mostly through or above cloud for 2 hours until everything cleared out like magic just before we reached PEI. Bruce should be sooo proud of himself as he has flown this whole trip perfectly through some pretty nasty weather and I am to be congratulated for being sooooooo brave and such a good air hostess.

We are both pretty happy to be here. These trips really are adventures and there is a real sense of achievement for having taken on the challenge. Now we just have to get back!!!!

For the next few days we will just stay on Terra Firma and enjoy this beautiful island!

Wednesday June 30 And so the long journey home begins. The weather was pretty awful in Charlottetown this morning but it eventually cleared out enough for us to flight plan to Quebec City. It was very turbulent en route but visibility was good through the first part of New Brunswick. However, when we climbed to our en route altitude of 10,000 ft. we were back into hard IFR again. To make matters worse we also had major headwinds which really slowed us down. In fact our trip from Charlottetown to Q.C. took an hour Cont’d next page‌.

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longer that on the trip out. To keep my mind off the weather I buried myself in “A Prayer for Owen Meaney” again which worked really well until I finished it. What a lovely book! Of course the ending is quite poignant so when I looked out the window I thought what I was seeing was a result of my misty eyes. Not so! It was ICE! – about ¼ inch of it on the leading edge of the wing! This is not good! Bruce nodded sagely and said he was aware of it and was monitoring the instruments carefully. The Mooney is such a good little plane it didn’t seem to affect performance much and sure enough when we descended the ice melted off pretty quickly.

The approach into Q,C, was not fun with ugly freezing rain and severe cross winds. Half an hour after we landed a huge rain storm came tearing through the area. Needless to say we were glad to be on the ground.

However when we tried to open the door of the plane we found it was stuck again! This is not a problem when you land in a major airport but if we were to land in a small place we might not have someone around to help. The aviation mechanics were all busy investigating the Twin King Air crash so we couldn’t get anyone to fix it. One of them did give the door another liberal dose of silicone spray which worked last time so fingers crossed. The weather in Canada is all over the map so we will just have to pick our way home as best we can.

on but decided we really wanted to get as far as we could today. Bruce felt we could make it to Thunder Bay and he was right. Ironically once we left Timmins the weather cleared off and we had clear blue skies the whole way for the first time on this trip. And the best part of today was we had no trouble opening the door. Yay! Thunder Bay feels like the gateway to the West so we are very pleased we made it so far today. Who knows what tomorrow will bring - apparently thunderstorms still persist over the prairies. But tonight we are staying in a hotel with an indoor waterslide (what more could a girl want) and a sports bar (the FIRST place we go to after landing) and life is good.

I think Bruce and I make a pretty good team on these trips - we have our respective roles down to a science by now. In the morning we have a quick breakfast (coz I can't do anything on an empty stomach). Then we dash off to the nearest Tim Hortons to get our lunch sandwiches and then it's off to the airport where we greet the Mooney and pack all our loot strategically (so you can grab anything you need in a hurry when up in the air). Of primary importance is the location of the water bottle and the urine bottle (not to confuse the two!)

Bruce organizes his maps and charts and we both do the walk around. We are so jammed into our little plane we can hardly move but it feels quite cozy.

Thursday July 1 HAPPY CANADA DAY!!

The weather was gorgeous in the morning at Thunder Bay but as usual it was variable across the prairies. We decided we would fly to Winnipeg and stay there overnight if we couldn't go further but after checking the weather again on landing, Bruce felt we should push on as far as Regina and get right up against the bad weather to give us the best

We woke up to sunny skies in Quebec City but en route weather to Timmins was unstable. Our altitude was 6000ft in broken cloud.

Unfortunately it was also extremely turbulent which really gets on your nerves after awhile. We re-fueled in Timmins and debated about carrying

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chance to get home tomorrow. As we left Winnipeg I noticed a huge bank of very nasty looking weather off to my right. In my vivid imagination it looked like a huge monstrous alligator with open jaws just waiting to chomp down on unsuspecting aircraft! We had to fly through the cloud base to 10000ft to get above the weather but once there the flight was relatively smooth until just before Regina where you could see a huge weather system 50 miles west of the city with lots of towering cumulus clouds. We are stayed in town in the Ramada Inn (under renovation and NOT impressive) but there is a very nice Bar & Grill across the street.

We were just glad to have come so far despite the nasty weather. As I said, we make a good team.

Saturday July 3 WE'RE HOME! I can't believe it was just 3 days ago that we left Charlottetown when the weather was so awful we thought the trip home would take ages! It's a real tribute to Bruce's ability to read weather. He is willing to push the limit a little but never to put us in danger and he is confident in the performance ability of the Mooney and in his own capability.

We set off early this morning after

picking up our en route supplies from Tim Horton’s. We refuelled in Lethbridge at noon and had our picnic. This airport is so familiar to us as it is always our first stop for fuel when we fly east. The people at Esso are really friendly. One of the guys said to Bruce "you are so lucky to have a wife who enjoys flying. They are as rare as hen's teeth - or else they are the second!"

The trip from Lethbridge through the Rockies was complete IFR the whole way. We flew at 14000ft through to Abbottsford as conditions didn't allow for any further descent and the cloud cover didn't really clear out till we reached the ocean. This kind of trip is gruelling in a lot of ways - it's very tiring physically and mentally. I think I've knocked off a few more brain cells from flying at altitude for so long although I don't suppose most people would notice!

It is always a wonderful experience to fly from one side of the country to the other in a little single engine airplane. Our total air time from Victoria to Charlottetown was 18 hours and 21 hours on the return. We love our Mooney. It has given us the opportunity for many cross Canada adventures and has also been seriously great for marital maintenance. There is such a sense of achievement when we complete one of these trips - whatever happens in the future we will always have these wonderful memories! - as long as memory lasts!

If you’ve been thinking about completing a night rating, now is the time to do it! It’s getting dark earlier, and with any luck we’ll get another month of good weather in.

Wouldn’t you rather be flying?

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Images courtesy of: Allen Lynch

From Glenn Lindsey: A photograph of the 220 Stearman that flew at Abbotsford. It put on a great show with Mount Baker as a backdrop.

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 21st of the month: thepatrician@shaw.ca

Special mention goes out to the photos on the opposite page.

Top: From Oshkosh 2010. Many will recognize the guys on the left and right. VFC member Darren Rich is in the middle, having flown a Cherokee 140 from Kingston, ON to KOSH with a fellow pilot from the Kingston Flying Club.

Bottom: From Brendan McCormick: “This is a picture of one of the aircraft I flew throughout the summer in Haida Gwaii. C-GHJL is a Sikorsky S-76 A model parked at West Coast Resorts Englefield fishing lodge near Douglas Inlet on Moresby Island.”

YOUR PHOTO HERE!

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New Members Deanna Geddo

Cameron Appleby

Brett Madsen

Leyla Pinter

Stephen Weller

Kael Campbell

Alex Pinter

Matt Durant

Ryan Mackereth

Robert Clarry

Laine Armstrong

Robert Bettauer

Petteri Jernberg

Justin Harper

Vance Rosling

Stephen Kane

Jason Fiegehen

Blake Langley

Adrian Boissonneault

Brian Buchan

Gary Sims

Araz Jamali

Taylor Yakubowich

Jim Goertz

Brent Hamster

Richard Frith

Robert D’Arcy

Alexandre Bogdanov Thain Breese David Watkins

Achievements First Solo

PPL Flight Test

Jack Coates

Cherry Lozupone

Sarah Blackstone

CPL Licence

Mike Lozupone

Mike Redgrave

Nick Oakley

Jordan Byng

Brayden Gale

Corinna Templeton

Doug Blackie

PPL Written

Evan Hunter

Emil Edwards

PPL Licence

Jordan Byng

Jordan Byng

CPL Written

Christopher Windels

Julie Williams

Akio Shiojima

Julie Williams

Cherry Lozupone Cameron Spurr

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Charlie Brennan Instructor: Graham Palmer

Jack Coates Instructor: Brad Fraser

Brayden Gale Instructor: Jessica McLaggan

Mike Redgrave Instructor: Dirk Pritchard

Sarah Blackstone Instructor: Jessica McLaggan

Doug Blackie Instructor: Jeff Lightheart

“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.�

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Evan Hunter Instructor: Jeff Lightheart

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Notice: Fall and Winter Office Hours Beginning October 1st, the Victoria Flying Club office will be closed at 7pm.

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Victoria Flying Club is very excited to partner with Thrifty Foods in their successful Smile Card program. Pick up your smile card today at the VFC office, and 5% of your grocery purchases will go towards creating scholarships and awards for VFC members.

Thank-you to Thrifty Foods for their support!

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