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Victoria Flying Club

November 2006

Remembrance Day, 2006.

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In the sky, the mountains and the fields, in war and peace, “to the innermost heart of their own land they are known....�

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Short Final

Letters to the Editor

Bears Air

A Visit to Friday Harbor

In My Travels

To Bella Coola and Beyond

New Passport Requirements

Eleanor’s

The

Patrician

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Newsletter of the Victoria Flying Club

NOVEMBER 2006 Editor:

Eleanor Eastick PatricianEditor@shaw.ca Advertising inquiries: Bob Mace (250) 361-6996 or bmace@shaw.ca Publisher: Seaside Designs seasidedesigns@shaw.ca (250) 383-7777 Published monthly.

Unsolicited articles welcome.

The deadline for submissions is Thursday, November 23, 2006.

Board of Directors President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Directors

Sean Steele Bob Mace Lloyd Toope Colin Dormuth Dennis Arnsdorf Jeremy Prpich Doug Marin Don Goodeve

General Manager Chief Flying Instructor

Gerry Mants Graham Palmer

1852 Canso Road Victoria, BC V8L 5V5

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Well, here we are, Christmas is less than two months away! It looks as though the rainy season is beginning to set in, but we did get that Indian summer! Hope everybody got in lots of flying in those bright blue skies!

Bursaries The Club is pleased to announce there will be six bursaries given out this year.

In addition to the long-standing Claude Butler, Betty Wadsworth and the more recent Mike Cooper-Slipper Awards, there will be three additional bursaries thanks to Thrifty’s and the very successful Smile Card program. The details and amounts of the Thrifty awards are yet to be worked out but the intention is for them to be used to assist in flight training. The three older awards are $500 each, given to pilots in any stage of training who are furthering their education.

Application forms for the bursaries will be available from Dispatch next month and the winners will be announced at the 2006 grads Wings Banquet, held early in 2007.

Farewell The Victoria Flying Club notes with sadness the passing of Basil Newton, a WW II bomber pilot and club instructor from the mid 70s to the mid 80s. He was an asset to the club in all ways, an excellent and popular instructor. Al Whalley attended his funeral and “I put Victoria Flying Club under my name in the guest book for the family. Jack Ellard was there! John Bergint who got his licence at the club and is still with Air Canada also attended! Bas was his instructor! Bob and June Harrison were there as well....”

Getting the Most out of Your Licence Got a new licence? What are you going to do with it? Remember when you first got your driver’s licence? You drove around just for the thrill of driving. Now you’ve got a new pilot’s licence, but after you’ve taken all your friends for a flight, what are you going to do? Flying around aimlessly by yourself is still exciting, but there are better things to do with that hard-won document. Mark this on your calendar:

The Lounge, Saturday, November 18, 14:00.

For the first time in ages, the Club is having a social gathering - food, snacks, light refreshments, fun, games and door prizes! The idea is to get recreational pilots together. The old “veterans”, the recently graduated private pilots and those about to graduate can meet each other and learn about interesting ways to use that new licence – night endorsement, floats, aerobatics, etc. This sounds like a lot of fun where we can all exchange first-hand information about places to go and things to do. There are about 25 great destinations less than a one-hour flight from CYYJ – this is fun-flying that won’t break the bank! I hope we will see some of the old flyout crowd in attendance and get that old camaraderie and club feeling back. Check out the ad in this Pat for all the details.

Letters to the Editor We do like to get letters at the Pat. How are we doing? Is there any particular feature you’d like to see in the newsletter ...or not! Any pilot stuff you’d like to buy or sell? We are happy to put in small classifieds for Club members. Have you got some great photos or stories about interesting adventures you’d like to share with us? We want this to be your newsletter and we need your input.

- Ed Here’s a letter from one of our regular contributors regarding the October edition. This pat on the back goes to Larry Dibnah, who along with our wonderful publisher, put the October Patrician together while I gadded about the province (see article To Bella Coola and Beyond p.8.)

Eleanor: Looks like a Zlin Z242!

Shorry Adams Hi,

Eleanor -

I am thinking that the October mystery plane is a Koliber 160 A.

WOW ! What a great job. I especially enjoyed your comments re: autumn, and the learning to fly stuff, which fit so nicely with the story on the Westjet pilot. The cover picture BLEW ME AWAY. That’s a real winner.

Congratulations to you and the contributors. I’m happy to be a part of it.

Cheers , Hugh.

Thanks both for writing. The aircraft is a Zlin, but its similarity to the Koliber 160A is striking. Just look at the photo of the Koliber.

–Ed, with help from Larry D.

Barry

October Mystery of the Month This visiting aircraft was photographed recently while parked outside the Victoria Flying Club. It is of Eastern European design and has its origins in the 1960’s sport aerobatics field.

Zlin 142C

Koliber

Made by Moravan Aircraft of the Czech Republic, the Zlin Model 142C is a low wing, side-by-side two-seat training aircraft. The 142C is powered by a Walter Lorn inverted sixcylinder in-line turbocharged engine providing up to 214 hp and driving a two-blade constant speed propeller. True to its roots the Zlin is a solid, stable and fully aerobatic aircraft with excellent overall visibility. These are qualities that help to make the Zlin a good training platform. It’s interesting to note that the large perspex canopy slides forward as opposed to rearward to allow access.

I took the accompanying photo of a Zlin 142C while it was visiting VFC in September’06 but I’m not sure who owns the aircraft or where they flew it from.

Larry.

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November Mystery of the Month Name this plane. Although this is only part of an interesting and classic aircraft, reading the Pat will give you the answer.

Send your educated guess(es) to PatricianEditor@shaw.ca.

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Conversation with a Rocket Scientist I

once knew a flight instructor who was always impatient with his students. Including me.

When something didn’t sink in quickly enough, he’d say, “It’s not rocket science!” So we all thought it must be quite simple, and we must be really slow. That instructor taught me everything he knew, and I still didn’t know anything.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand the principles of flight, how to control an airplane, plan a cross country trip, change the oil, or clean the bugs off the leading edges. Most pilots don’t need to be rocket scientists. But they do exist out there. Men and women who understand the physics, engineering, mathematics, geometry, calculus, aerodynamics, even the human element of the science. Not the kind of stuff we learn in the private and commercial pilot license training.

I actually met and talked to a real rocket scientist once.

He was a patient of mine in an ambulance one day, back when I worked as a paramedic. It wasn’t a particularly urgent call, but he was sick with something serious enough to need our service. On the way to the hospital, I asked him what he did before he retired. He told me he’d worked with NASA back in the 1960’s, and had been on the Apollo team that put Neil Armstrong on the moon. The Soviets had already put a man into orbit, Uri Gagarin in 1961. The race for the moon was on. A 10 year contest which would eventually cost 40billion dollars, and there were no guarantees. I commented that he must be a real rocket scientist. He admitted I could call him that.

The conversation carried on. “It would probably be a lot easier to get to the moon today,” I said.

“No, in fact I doubt we could do it today if it had never been done before,” he replied.

“What?! With the way technology has advanced since the ‘60’s it seems to me it could be done quite easily?”

He was philosophical. “The problem isn’t with the science. It’s all about attitudes. People don’t think the way they did in the ‘60’s. They’re not as free-wheeling.

There’s no spirit of adventure and excitement on the scale it was back then. People are scared. They’re afraid

BEAR’S AIR Barry Meek

of things like making costly mistakes, afraid of liability, lawyers, juries, insurance, government policies, discrimination, compensations and hungry news media.”

He went on to explain. “People are scared to try anything new today. Science could build anything better, but there would be growing pains too costly and painful to survive. Technology exists for example, to build robots that would totally care for a baby. They could do every unpleasant job the mother faces, and give her a rest when she needs one. But if anything ever went wrong, where would that robot builder be? In court. That’s where!”

“Most of the cost involved in building new airplanes, engines and other components is in the liability, not the research and development. Not in the science. The lawyers love it”.

Of course he was right. Arguments can be made about the advancements in technology, transportation, in fact in about any area we care to look. The world is definitely not standing still. But if you’re old enough to have been around in the 1960’s, you’ll agree that our freewheeling spirit of adventure, eagerness to try something new and to hell with the costs and consequences, just isn’t there anymore.

Think of where we’d be today if lawyers had preceded the Wright brothers. John F. Kennedy had that spirit.

He risked a lot more than the humiliation of failure.

But the U.S. President was a motivator who could think and act in a fashion bold enough to take the nation on a journey the likes of which the world had never known.

The retired scientist with me in the ambulance had some enlightening things to say. I came away from the hospital that day thinking how he’d made so much sense of it all. And the truth of the matter is, this is not rocket science. It just took a rocket scientist to point it out.

Barry Meek bcflyer@propilots.net

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A Visit to

Friday Harbor If you take off from 09 at CYYJ and keep going in pretty much a straight line, you will come to KFHA in about 20 minutes of flying. Those intrepid travelers, Kate and Glenn, recently made a car trip to San Juan Island, but as flyers, just had to visit Friday Harbor Airport to see the newlyopened Ernie’s Café.

In fact, the Café was the big attraction, as it is named after the late Ernie Gann, Glenn says, "This indicates how happy Ernie was aviation when flying his Bucker Jungman." writer, pilot, sailor and a true swashbuckler in Glenn’s words. Glenn had the privilege of meeting Ernie at Abbotsford. Ernest K. Gann’s literary works are too numerous to mention, he was the king of aviation writers and many of his books were made into movies – Fate is the Hunter, The High and the Mighty, The Aviator - one or two of his titles are available at VFC’s Pilot Shop and all make fascinating reading. He died in 1991 and his widow still lives on San Juan Island and keeps her 172 at KFHA. As always, it was difficult to choose just a few of the great photos sent by Kate, but here’s a small selection:

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We drove back down the island and got to Ernie's Cafe just before it closed.

I like the placement of the windsock. We thought this would be a dandy place to learn to fly. Not a wide runway like we have but no big commercial jets and military helicopters to compete with in the circuit. Plus, it's just pleasant flying over the San Juans.

Glenn found a model of a Great Lakes Trainer biplane.

In My Travels

by Larry Dibnah

Ryan Navion If you’ve always thought that the Ryan Navion appears to have the rakish lines of a fighter plane you’re not far off. The Navion is indeed related to one of the most famous fighter aircraft of WW2.

By 1945, the North American Aircraft Corporation was cranking out P-51 Mustangs at a dizzying rate and had expected to continue production into 1946 or 1948 depending on one’s take on the end of hostilities with Japan.

With the abrupt end of WW2 and subsequent halt in production, however, North American was left with thousands of P-51 parts and an experienced workforce with no peacetime customers. A brilliant problem-solving engineer named Dutch Kindelberger who was employed by North American at that time had envisioned an unarmed civilian version of the P-51 to be made available to the post-war aviation market. With a radical re-design incorporating some of the Mustang parts, Kindelberger created the new North American ‘Navion’ (originally NAvion).

The radical changes included a switch from a retractable tail dragger configuration to retractable tricycle landing gear, a power plant change from a 1490 hp Rolls Royce Merlin engine down to a 185 hp Continental, a top airspeed of 437 mph reduced to 139 mph, and a cramped singleseat cockpit to a roomy 4-place layout. These changes should have rendered the P-51 unrecognizable but in planform especially, the Navion still retained a strong family resemblance, right down to the sliding canopy.

The handsome new aircraft handled like a dream, or more importantly, like a mini fighter plane. Two aerobatic versions of the Navion were built and offered on spec to the US Air Force as primary trainers but the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor won favour with the military over the Navion for that role.

North American was still using robust but costly wartime construction techniques on the Navion production line. For example, every structural component was coated in zinc chromate which eliminated any possibility of corrosion in the airframe. This among other things provided good safety features from the owner/pilot’s perspective but led the Navion project to eventual financial ruin.

A company already familiar with the civilian aircraft market and hungry for new post-war business took an interest in the Navion project. To North American’s relief, Mr. T. Claude Ryan acquired the rights to the Navion design in early 1947. The Ryan Aeronautical Company of San Diego used their know how to turn the project around and with only a very few changes, resumed production of the successful Ryan Navion in October of 1947. The aircraft was a virtual carbon copy of the original North American version. Eventually Ryan built and sold 1,238 Navions including 163 military L-16’s.

Even 60 years later, the Navion is still a great performer with a top speed of 160 mph, cruise speed of 150 mph. and a stall speed of 75 mph (clean) / 59 mph (full flaps). Its service ceiling is 15,000 feet and fuel burn in cruise is 12.5 gallons/hr. Fuel capacity is 60 US gal. Also, for a sleek aircraft, the Navion has excellent short field capability. The distance required for takeoff roll over a 50ft obstacle is 1500 feet. Best rate of climb is 750 fpm. Its landing roll over a 50ft obstacle requires 1550 feet.

References: Private Pilot Magazine - April 1998 issue Used Planes Guide – Spring 1977 issue.

Photo by Larry Dibnah

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T o Bella Coola and Beyond

by Eleanor

Along the same lines as Kate and Glenn's jaunt to KFHA, my husband Robert and I went airport hopping by land in a VW Eurovan. The first port of call after a 12-hour voyage from Port Hardy was CYBD, Bella Coola. Interestingly, it was the last run of the season for the Queen of Chilliwack and we had the ferry very much to ourselves with only 11 vehicles on board.

Bella Coola is the terminus of the Discovery Coast Ferry Service and the beginning of the Freedom Road to the Chilcotin, Cariboo and beyond into the interior of British Columbia. About 1,000 people live in Bella Coola, a town with good stores, friendly people and lots of things to do. The airport has a paved 4200' runway with the river running along the north side and mountains all around. It would be a great place to fly into provided the weather is really good VFR. There are no landing fees, parking fees or tie-down fees. There is always wind - in the summer from the west and in the winter from the east - circuits are on the south side and are fairly tight.

On our way home we gave a nod to Williams Lake CYWL, Lillooet CAR3, 108 Mile House CZML, and made a side trip to Pemberton CYPS over the Duffy Lake Road. I had approached all these places from the air, so it was a new experience to get there the slow way and I found the scenery just as spectacular. We dropped into Hope CYHE on a sunny afternoon. No one was there, but the door code is known to pilots and it was a pleasure to go into the neat and friendly little terminal building and look out over the huge grass runways. Then onward to Victoria, passing Chilliwack CYCW, Abbotsford CYXX, Langley CYNL and Boundary Bay CZBB. I approached them all from the ground and even found Langley much faster than usual!

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The ramp, CYBD with airport manager Malcolm Mackenzie

Looking down runway 23, CYBD

between Pemberton and Lillooet - just as pretty from the ground

If only it had wings....

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N e w Pa s s p o r t R e q u i r e m e n t s f o r U S H ER E I S A H EADS-U P F ROM CF I GR AHAM PALM ER: According to what I’ve discovered, the three ways to enter the US are: Land, Sea, or Air. All air arrivals will need passports by January 8th 2007, all arrivals by land and sea by January 1st, 2008.

The definition of air includes general aviation.

At this time, all passengers (and pilots) including Canadian and U.S. citizens will be required to present a valid passport when traveling by air between Canada and the United States.

This new regulation is a change from prior requirements. Effective January 8, 2007, subject to U.S. government approval, driver licenses and other government-issued photo identification will no longer be accepted as valid travel documentation for Canadian and U.S. citizens traveling by air between Canada and the United States.

Alternatively, NEXUS Air cards will be accepted by U.S. authorities when traveling by air from Vancouver International Airport to the United States. http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html

Above is the American website which provides more complete information. The bottom line is that we private pilots and our passengers will all need valid passports to enter the US. If you don’t have one, or if yours is out of date, the time to apply for a new one is NOW. We live so close to the US, especially by air that it is easy to forget that we are crossing an international border when we fly to KFHA for lunch, for instance. Be sure to get your documents in order and don’t miss out on any of the fun of a flight to the many nearby US airports.

Additional information on Canada-U.S. border regulations is available from the Canada Border Services Agency www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca. Information on Canadian passport applications is available from Passport Canada www.pptc.gc.ca.

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Online Aviation Safety Videos from Transport Canada To fly or not to fly? It always depends largely on the weather.

Head over to http://www.tc.gc.ca/CivilAviation/SystemSafety/wtf/menu.htm and check out the ‘Weather to Fly’ series of video clips. These will aid your decision whether to fly or not based on observed conditions during the day.

Safety is #1 in aviation, so you always want to make sure you’re getting up when it’s safe to do so.

All videos are in Windows Media Player format, and cover topics such as judging ceilings, knowing wind speeds, PIREP’s, winter flying, and more.

These video clips are definitely worth a look.

Have fun and stay safe!

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Flight Flight Adventures Adventures Fun ways to use your new pilot’s license What A fun afternoon where you can meet other new pilots, soon-to-be pilots, club members and flying enthusiasts and x

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Heroes All Let us pause on Remembrance Day to keep in mind all our Armed Forces personnel, past and present. The Victoria Flying Club was re-started by a group of returning WW II vets, who resurrected the group from the original Victoria Aero Club which itself was begun by WW I vets. They were all quiet heroes and 91 of them were special enough to be awarded the Victoria Cross for Valour.

The following is the story of a modest boy from Winnipeg, a true Canadian hero. Details of the citation are from The London Gazette, October 11th, 1946.

Andrew Charles Mynarski was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the 14th of October 1916, the son of Polish immigrants. In November 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force, graduating in 1942 as a mid-upper air-gunner. He went overseas in December 1942. He is buried in Méharicourt Cemetery, Méharicourt, France.

Pilot Officer Mynarski was the first member of the RCAF to be decorated with the Victoria Cross in the Second World War. The citation reads: "Pilot Officer Mynarski was the mid-upper gunner of a Lancaster aircraft, detailed to attack a target at Cambrai in France, on the night of 12th June 1944. The aircraft was attacked from below and astern by an enemy fighter and ultimately came down in flames. As an immediate result of the attack, both port engines failed. Fire broke out between the mid-upper turret and the rear turret, as well as in the port wing. The flames soon became fierce and the captain ordered the crew to abandon the aircraft.

Pilot Officer Mynarski left his turret and went toward the escape hatch. He then saw that the rear gunner was still in his turret and apparently unable to leave it. The turret was, in fact, immovable, since the hydraulic gear had been put out of action when the port engines failed, and the manual gear had been broken by the gunner in his attempts to escape.

Without hesitation, Pilot Officer Mynarski made his way through the flames in an endeavour to reach the rear turret and release the gunner. Whilst so doing, his parachute and his clothing, up to the waist, were set on fire.

All his efforts to move the turret and free the gunner were in vain. Eventually the rear gunner clearly indicated to him that there was nothing more he could do and that he should try to save his own life. Pilot Officer Mynarski reluctantly went back through the flames to the escape hatch. There, as a last gesture to the trapped gunner, he turned toward him, stood to attention in his flaming clothing and saluted, before he jumped out of the aircraft.

Pilot Officer Mynarski's descent was seen by French people on the ground. Both his parachute and his clothing were on fire. He was found eventually by the French, but was so severely burned that he died from his injuries.

He was only 27.

The rear gunner had a miraculous escape when the aircraft crashed. He subsequently testified that, had Pilot Officer Mynarski not attempted to save his comrade's life, he could have left the aircraft in safety and would, doubtless, have escaped death.

Pilot Officer Mynarski must have been fully aware that in trying to free the rear gunner he was almost certain to lose his own life. Despite this, with outstanding courage and complete disregard for his own safety, he went to the rescue. Willingly accepting the danger, Pilot Officer Mynarski lost his life by a most conspicuous act of heroism which called for valour of the highest order."

Post Script An 8 ft 6 inch bronze statue of Andrew Mynarski was unveiled at the Durham Tees Valley International Airport 5 June 2005. This airport which serves the industrialized area of Yorkshire sits on the old 6 (RCAF) Group airbase named Middleton St. George. 419 Squadron RCAF Bomber Command flew from this station and Mynarski’s Lancaster left on its fateful flight from one of its runways. At the unveiling ceremony, a Lancaster from the RAF Memorial Flight, Coningsby, appeared overhead following The Last Post.

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Just Imagine! If 100 members spend $100 per month at Thriftys, VFC could award $6000 per year in new bursaries.

Pick up cards for your family and friends too.

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