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THE PATRICIANAugust 2017

The Victoria Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946

Fourth Annual FormFestPhotos and More Photos! - page 5

The Social Side of AviationPeople and Planes - page 15

“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 [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT Rolf Hopkinson

SECRETARY Colin Williamson

TREASURER Chris Peschke

DIRECTORS Steve DemyRob ShemiltJohn AinsworthJohn Litherland

GENERAL MANAGER Gerry Mants

CHIEF FLYING INSTRUCTOR

Graham Palmer

1852 Canso RoadSidney, BC V8L 5V5

[email protected]

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

In This Issue

2 News Around the Club 5 Fourth Annual FormFest

7 Air Cadet First Solos

9 Tower Talk - Simon Dennis

12 BCAM Open House Photos

13 Member Achievements

15 The Social Side of Aviation 18 PPL Ground School Schedule

THE PATRICIANMonthly Newsletter of The Victoria Flying Club - Aviation Excellence Since 1946

August 2017

Editor: Katy [email protected] Editor: Christie Hall [email protected]

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News Around the Club

VFC News

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.

HELP WANTED!VFC LINE CREW

Join a great team!

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

AIRCRAFT RENTAL DISCOUNT HOURS

Special holidays, e.g. Canada Day, Civic Holiday, Labour Day

Monday to Friday, 1700–0930 $10/hr rental discount, or0.2 simulator time credit per hour of flight (approximate value $20)

Saturday and Sunday, 1700–0930 $15/hr rental discount, or0.3 simulator time credit per hour of flight approximate value $30)

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

Is your aviation-related event not listed? Let us know at [email protected].

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!

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.

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Women in AviationVFC News

SAVE $3000 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. • SAVE MONEY AND SAVE LIVES: TAXI SAFE, FLY SAFE!

OFF YOUR NEXT FLIGHT!

VICTORIA FLYING CLUB RUNWAY INCURSION SAFETY AWARENESS

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.

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.

For more information or to book a flightEmail: [email protected]

Call: 1-778-350-3213

VFC CHARTER SERVICE - BE THERE IN MINUTES!

www.islandblue.com

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

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book printing

art & framing

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!

Fourth AnnualFormFest!


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Air Cadet First Solos

Donna Mbamy-ConciInstructor: Eugene Nehring

Anastasia LisnevskayaInstructor: Luc Arseneault

Alexandria DempseyInstructor: Luc Arseneault

Ashley CameronInstructor: Stephan Heinemann

“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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Air Cadet First Solos

Madisyn TaylorInstructor: Silvia Zilker

Sabrina OuyangInstructor: Michael Bahrey

Maryam ShamsiInstructor: Imran Ismail

Evie ChanInstructor: Stephan Heinemann

Shirley KongInstructor: Imran Ismail

Feature Article


TOWER TALK August 2017

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

cards are divided into direction-specific (north and south) procedures, with more in-depth 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. Continue to enjoy your summer, and remember I can always be reached at [email protected] for any questions regarding procedures or anything else ATC related here at YYJ. Regards, Simon

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YYJ ARR/DEP PROCEDURES (NORTH)


Feature Article


YYJ ARR/DEP PROCEDURES (SOUTH)


Aviation Community News

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!

BC Aviation Museum Open House

Ryan Novotill Instructor: Silvia Zilker

James ChambersInstructor: Michael Bahrey

“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.”

Ryker SuelzleInstructor: Eugene Nehring


Member Achievements

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

First SoloRyker Suelzle Maryam Shamsi Shirley KongAshley Cameron Donna Mbamy-Conci Anastasia Lisnevskaya Alexandria Dempsey Sabrina Ouyang Evie ChanMadisyn Taylor Ryan NovotillJames Chambers

PPL Flight TestJosh Poland

PPL Licence Isaac Bland Troy Richards Shotaro Suwa Bernd Buchner Zack Rowbotham

CPL Flight TestEmmanuel OdonkorNathan Erlandson

SeaplaneMatt HughsonMarc BiernackiNick Hummel

Member Achievements


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 [email protected].


VFC News

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!

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: [email protected] .

Don Devenney

The Social Side of Aviation

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Diploma in Business Administration —Aviation Option

continuingstudies.uvic.ca/aviation

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.

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 ProgramsT 250-721-8073/8072 [email protected] information about flight training, contact the Victoria Flying Club:T [email protected]

Offered in collaboration with the Victoria Flying Club

Ground School Schedule


Ground School ScheduleAugust 2017

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

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Navigation INO CLASS - BC Day Navigation II Navigation IIIATCReviewCARS & Licencing ICARS & Licencing IIAerodynamics & Theory of FlightNO CLASS - Labour DayAirframes & EnginesSystems & Flight InstrumentsHuman Factors & Pilot Decision Making

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BradyN/ABradyBrady Andrew AndrewMikeMikeAndrewN/AStephanStephanSilvia

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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