The Patrician - August 2017

THE PATRICIAN August 2017

The Victoria Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946

Fourth Annual FormFest Photos and More Photos! - page 5

The Social Side of Aviation People and Planes - page 15

THE PATRICIAN August 2017

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)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Ramona Reynolds president@flyvfc.com VICE PRESIDENT Rolf Hopkinson

In This Issue

2 News Around the Club

5 Fourth Annual FormFest

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Air Cadet First Solos

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Tower Talk - Simon Dennis

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BCAM Open House Photos

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Member Achievements

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The Social Side of Aviation

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PPL Ground School Schedule

SECRETARY Colin Williamson TREASURER Chris Peschke DIRECTORS Steve Demy Rob Shemilt John Ainsworth John Litherland GENERAL MANAGER Gerry Mants CHIEF FLYING Graham Palmer INSTRUCTOR 1852 Canso Road Sidney, BC V8L 5V5 www.flyvfc.com info@flyvfc.com Phone: 250-656-2833

Fax: 250-655-0910

Editor: Katy Earl flyvfcmarketing@gmail.com Guest Editor: Christie Hall cmhall@shaw.ca 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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VFC News

News Around the Club HELP WANTED! VFC LINE CREW Join a great team!

The Victoria Flying Club has openings for line crew with a valid driver's licence, one to three months related experience and/ or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to perform basic math calculations, an interest in aviation, and a commitment to safety and providing excellent customer service every day. Training will be provided.

Job Type: Full-time Required language: English Required license or certification: Driver's Licence

The Little Pilot Shop While you are at the Victoria Flying Club, don't forget to take a look at our 'Little Pilot Shop.' We have jackets and hats (great conversation starters!), IPad mounts, mag lights and more!

If you're looking for something that we don't have, please ask! We may be able to source it for you.

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VFC News

Victoria Flying Club Open House Save the date for September 16th! The Victoria Flying Club will be hosting an Open House from 11 am to 3 pm. We run these events twice every year as a way to open our doors to the community and let people see what we do. We love welcoming new folks to the club for the first time, signing up new students, and reconnecting with members we haven't seen in awhile. Always a good time!

Please plan to join us!

NEWS AND EVENTS

AUG 5

Nanaimo Flying Club Brunch

AUG 5, 6

Victoria's Largest Little Airshow

AUG 9

Penticton Peach Festival with Air Show

AUG 11-13

Abbotsford International Air Show

AUG 13

Delta CAK3 Pancake Breakfast

AUG 19-20

Fairmont Hot Springs CYCZ Fly-In

AUG 26-27

Grand Forks CZGF Fly-In

SEP 2

Nanaimo Flying Club Brunch

SEP

COPA For Kids. Date TBD

SEP 9, 10

BC Precision Aerobatics Championship

SEP 16

Victoria Flying Club Open House

If you would like to help out, or if you have an aircraft you would like to share in our static display, please contact Marcel Poland at the club office.

Is your aviation-related event not listed?

Let us know at news@flyvfc.com.

AIRCRAFT RENTAL DISCOUNT HOURS

Special holidays, e.g. Canada Day, Civic Holiday, Labour Day Monday to Friday, 1700–0930 $10/hr rental discount, or 0.2 simulator time credit per hour of flight (approximate value $20) Saturday and Sunday, 1700–0930 $15/hr rental discount, or 0.3 simulator time credit per hour of flight approximate value $30)

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News Women VFC in Aviation

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OFF YOUR NEXT FLIGHT! PREVENT YOURSELF FROM CAUSING A RUNWAY INCURSION AND YOU WILL AVOID A TRANSPORT CANADA MONETARY PENALTY AND PILOT LICENCE SUSPENSION! START SAVING TODAY USING THESE SIMPLE TECHNIQUES: • • • • • • •

ALWAYS WRITE DOWN YOUR TAXI CLEARANCE AND ROUTING, INCLUDING RUNWAYS TO CROSS OR HOLD SHORT OF. ALWAYS READ BACK YOUR FULL TAXI ROUTING, INCLUDING RUNWAYS TO CROSS OR HOLD SHORT OF. IMROVE YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS – ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU ARE HOLDNG SHORT OF A RUNWAY OR TAXWAY, AND TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT! RUNWAY AND TAXIWAY SURVELLANCE – CREW EYES OUTSDE: “CLEAR LEFT, CLEAR RIGHT, CLEARED TO CROSS!” MAINTAIN A ‘STERILE COCKPIT’ ENVIRONMENT – NO ONE TALKS DURING TAXIING UNLESS FOR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES. WHEN IN DOUBT ASK AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR CLARIFICATION. VICTORIA FLYING CLUB SAVE MONEY AND SAVE LIVES: TAXI SAFE, FLY SAFE! RUNWAY INCURSION SAFETY AWARENESS

VFC CHARTER SERVICE - BE THERE IN MINUTES! The Victoria Flying Club operates a charter service to a variety of destinations the lower BC area. VFC Charter offers inexpensive, timely, and direct transportation to places not serviced by other commercial carriers.

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The charter service is an on-demand operation (no set schedules) and is operational in day VFR conditions. Please contact us for more information on destinations and costs.

art & framing book printing Victoria: 905 Fort St., Victoria BC V8V 3K3 Tel: 250-385-9786 Sidney: 2411 Beacon Ave., Sidney BC V8L 2X2 Tel: 250-656-1233

For more information or to book a flight Email: tedk@flyvfc.com Call: 1-778-350-3213

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VFC News

Fourth Annual FormFest!

Our 4th Annual FormFest was a huge success!

Thank you to our amazing pilots and plane owners and all who participated. What a great group of participants! So much fun! Thank you for joining us. We are so fortunate to be part of the Victoria aviation community!

Check our Facebook page for more great photos!

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VFC News

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Air Cadet First Solos

“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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Alexandria Dempsey Instructor: Luc Arseneault

Donna Mbamy-Conci Instructor: Eugene Nehring

Ashley Cameron Instructor: Stephan Heinemann

Anastasia Lisnevskaya Instructor: Luc Arseneault

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Evie Chan Instructor: Stephan Heinemann

Madisyn Taylor Instructor: Silvia Zilker

Maryam Shamsi Instructor: Imran Ismail

Sabrina Ouyang Instructor: Michael Bahrey

Shirley Kong Instructor: Imran Ismail

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Feature Article

TOWER TALK

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by Simon Dennis, YYJ Tower ATC, ATPL

Happy mid-summer everyone. It certainly has been a busy one full of endless VFR weather. As I type this, it looks like this coming first week of August will be close to record setting temperatures for many areas of BC, with not even a hint of cloud cover in site. Hopefully you are making the most of it, whether in the air or on the ground. If you have been flying out of YYJ, we appreciate your continued assistance as we all try to negotiate these busiest times of the year and the challenge it presents, especially with our reduced tower staffing levels. Your patience and understanding is very much appreciated, and thus far I can confidently say everyone is managing well on both sides of the microphone.

cards are divided into direction-specific (north and south) procedures, with more indepth point-by-point explanations. We have presented these cards at our PrepAIR refresher seminars for the past two years to a strong reception, and I figured this would be a good time to expose them to this audience as well. Again, they are our one set of procedures that generates the most pilot mistakes, and consequently an increased controller workload, so the more pilots that follow them the better off we all will be.

If you are a local pilot you are most likely well versed in these procedures, and if so then I ask that you pass this diagrams along to any pilots, groups, flight schools etc you may know that use YYJ but are not as well versed - the more that know the better! If you are reading this as an itinerant pilot that is not as familiar, then hopefully you can learn something from the two pages that follow, or at least have the existing procedures better clarified.

One of the principal ways that pilots can help controllers provide their safe, orderly and expeditious service is to of course be well versed in local procedures. YYJ’s VFR arrival and departure procedures are some of the most frequently used of these, and are also some of the most mis-interpreted.

With that in mind, here at YYJ tower we have created arrival and departure “cheat sheets�, to be used in conjunction with the published VFR arrival and departure procedures in the CFS, and on the reverse side of the Vancouver VTA chart.

Continue to enjoy your summer, and remember I can always be reached at simon.dennis@navcanada.ca for any questions regarding procedures or anything else ATC related here at YYJ. Regards, Simon

As you can see, instead of the currently published diagrams that depict all of the arrivals and all of the departures, these

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Feature Article

TOWER TALK

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YYJ ARR/DEP PROCEDURES (NORTH)

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Feature Article

TOWER TALK

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YYJ ARR/DEP PROCEDURES (SOUTH)

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Aviation Community News

BC Aviation Museum Open House The recent open house at the BC Aviation Museum did not disappoint! Blue skies and big crowds made for a busy day of sightseeing flights and sharing information about the Victoria Flying Club with interested visitors. It is always a great event, and this year was no exception. Thank you to the BCAM volunteers who work so hard! We'll be back next year!

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Member Achievements

Ryan Novotill Instructor: Silvia Zilker

James Chambers Instructor: Michael Bahrey

Ryker Suelzle Instructor: Eugene Nehring

“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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Member Achievements

New Members Axel Schumacher Malcolm Bachand Nicholas Hardwick Joszef Pelyhe Anupam Matety Henry Emson Siomon Willox Randy Pulis Erin Sinclair Daytona Roberts Stephen Roberts Emilien Macchi Khalid Sidki Andrew Flieder Saleen Burnett Jacob Fraser Nick Hummel

First Solo Ryker Suelzle Maryam Shamsi Shirley Kong Ashley Cameron Donna Mbamy-Conci Anastasia Lisnevskaya Alexandria Dempsey Sabrina Ouyang Evie Chan Madisyn Taylor Ryan Novotill James Chambers PPL Flight Test Josh Poland

PPL Licence Isaac Bland Troy Richards Shotaro Suwa Bernd Buchner Zack Rowbotham CPL Flight Test Emmanuel Odonkor Nathan Erlandson Seaplane Matt Hughson Marc Biernacki Nick Hummel

EAA AIRVENTURE - OSHKOSH 2018 If you're on social media at all, you've probably been feeling a bit envious this past week, as you scroll through amazing photos from this year's AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Ten thousand aircraft. Half a million people. Sounds like a good time!

Don't miss out on next years show! Start planning now to attend, and get ready for an experience that will stay with you for years to come!

Doug MacMillan is gathering a list of people who might be interested in joining together in a charter trip to Oshkosh for the annual airshow for July 2018. He can be contacted at aeronut@telus.net.

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VFC News

The Social Side of Aviation The Victoria Flying Club began operations in 1946. Through the years a lot of things have changed: the aircraft we fly, the airspace we fly in, the regulations within which we operate, etc. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that we are a social club.

In all our years of keeping up with changes in the aviation industry, and in flight training best practices, we have worked hard not to lose sight of that.

As the other legacy flying clubs across Canada either close their doors, or become privatized, we continue to operate as a not-for-profit organization, governed by a volunteer board of club members. We exist only because of members – like each of you! This sets us apart from other flight training schools, and it’s a big part of what makes VFC such a special place.

With that said, we are living in a time where people are busier than ever, and more disconnected from the people around them. We connect digitally, and forget to connect live and in person. That has extended to our club as well in some ways. One of our members, Don Devenney, is looking to change that, and we would like to encourage more of you to do the same.

Flying with other pilots is a great way to learn, to share what you’ve learned, and to make new friends who share your passion (obsession?) with aviation and airplanes. VFC is home to literally hundreds of these types of people. Make it your mission to meet some of them!

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LET’S GO FLYING! • Looking for a pilot to share the cost on your next flight?

• Want to try an airport a bit further afield but you’re a bit unsure about procedures, etc.?

• Got a new Instrument rating but you’re a bit nervous about doing IFR “for real” and you’d like someone with experience to help out?

• Or…?

Then give me a call….

Flying is a social experience and I’m always looking for people to fly with. I also like helping new pilots get comfortable in the aviation world.

A bit about me: PPL with about 675hrs TT and 500 PIC Instrument / night rated Former VFC President & Director Author of most of the “Getting’ There” series of articles about local airports.

• Completed VFC aerobatics course (ah….those were the days!)

• • • •

I’m in the Dakota most Saturdays for brunch – c’mon over, join our group and let’s talk aviation. Or you can email me at: flightplanning@devenney.ca .

Don Devenney

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Diploma in Business Administration —Aviation Option Combine flight training with a prestigious university business diploma tailored to the aviation industry.

If you’re graduating or have recently graduated from high school and want to become a commercial airline pilot, this program is for you!

Employers recognize that good pilots do more than fly aircraft; they are active problem solvers, strategic decision makers, and superior communicators. The most successful are skilled in business management, leadership, team building, and crew resource management.

Classes are held at the Victoria International Airport or at the University of Victoria campus over a nine-month period.

Offered in collaboration with the Victoria Flying Club

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The unique program schedule means you can complete both your private and commercial pilot’s license and the Diploma in Business Administration.

The only entrance requirements are successful completion of Grade 12, the desire for a career in aviation, and the motivation to complete an intensive business program.

To learn more or to apply, please contact: Business and Management Programs T 250-721-8073/8072 bmt@uvic.ca For information about flight training, contact the Victoria Flying Club: T 250-656-2833 info@flyvfc.com

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Ground School Schedule

Ground School Schedule August 2017

Private Pilot Classes run Monday and Wednesday from 19:00 to 22:00.

DATE August 2

TOPIC

INSTRUCTOR

Navigation I

Brady

August 7

NO CLASS - BC Day

N/A

August 9

Navigation II

Brady

August 14

Navigation III

Brady

August 16

ATC

Andrew

August 21 August 23

Review

Andrew

CARS & Licencing I

Mike

August 28

CARS & Licencing II

Mike

August 30

Aerodynamics & Theory of Flight

Andrew

September 4

NO CLASS - Labour Day

N/A

September 6

Airframes & Engines

Stephan

September 11 September 13

Systems & Flight Instruments

Stephan

Human Factors & Pilot Decision Making

Silvia

Ground School Course: $350

Ground School Kit: $275

Learn to Fly package: $675 Call Customer Service at 250 656 2833 to register for Ground School today!

victoria flying club 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.

To date, the Victoria Flying Club has received over $18,000 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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