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COPA
The Northern Lights Award Foundation is now accepting nominations for its 8th Annual Awards Program. Each year, the national not-for-profit foundation honours outstanding Canadian women who have made a significant contribution to Aviation or Aerospace, and who continue to lay the groundwork for other women to enter or excel in these industries.
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COPA
Aviation tourism company Air Journey will soon have an impressive milestone to add to their 18 years' of expertise: the year 2016 will mark the company’s sixth escorted tour around the world.
Participating pilots will be able to fly their own private planes and their guests on a 66-day, 25,000-nm odyssey that includes visits to 24 different countries and islands.
For an individual private pilot, such a trip would not only be overwhelming, but nearly impossible, considering all the logistics. But as company founder Thierry Pouille explains, part of Air Journey's value to the private pilot is its ability to take care of these details. "We prearrange virtually everything — weather briefings, route planning charts, permits, customs, fuel stops, hotels, ground transportation, and more. Then we fly along, making sure that everything goes smoothly."
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AVweb
Canadian GA and business aircraft can again take shortcuts over U.S. airspace on their way to Canadian destinations. The FAA has amended a NOTAM issued a couple of weeks ago that made such overflights illegal without special security measures. As we reported last week, the NOTAM, apparently issued at the request of the TSA, cancelled the decades-long agreement between the two countries that allowed Canadian aircraft to transit U.S. airspace without security or Customs requirements.
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Northern Pen
According to author Tom Green: I am attempting to write a few short words about how it was when I was flying for the mission. I flew for the Mission 20 years, and then took the Operations Manager position for the Mission for another 16 years. There have been quite a few pilots who have flown for the Mission over the years, I was only one.
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| Call for nominations — COPA Board of Directors
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COPA
Every two years half of the positions on the COPA Board of Directors are up for election. In 2016 a total of nine positions will need to be elected.
Visit: http://www.copanational.org/2016_Board_Nominations.cfm for more information.
| Call for Neil Armstrong scholarship applications
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COPA
Applications for Neil Armstrong Scholarships are now being accepted. First place scholarship is valued at $7,000. Second place $3,000 and third place $2,000.
Application forms are available at the COPA office or online:
http://copafoundations.org/new-page/.
Applications must be sent to COPA's office in Ottawa, Ontario, by March 1, 2016.
The purpose of the scholarship fund is to honour one of Canada's foremost aviation members, and to provide flight training to worthy young persons who exemplify the fine character, optimism and love of adventure which were the characteristics of Neil J. Armstrong Qualified applicants shall be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants not less than 15 years of age on the date of application and not older than 21 years of age.
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Nanaimo, British Columbia, sales rep Ken Welte volunteers at the Air Cadet squadron in Nanaimo offering weekly instruction on airframes, navigation, engines, air law, meteorology and airmanship. He also takes students flying for free in his Cessna 172 so that they can gain practical experience.
"I encourage students to take advantage of every opportunity through Air Cadets," says Welte, who is with Sutton Group — West Coast Realty.
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The name "CubCrafters" is synonymous with innovation. Our Carbon Cub literally redefined expectations of "backcountry aircraft". Now, the Carbon Cub CA is ready for pilots in Canada. Contact us and Find Your Adventure!
Learn More at cubcrafters.ca
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General Aviation News
According to author Jeb Burnside: One of my earliest aviation memories is of a family holiday trip from our home in Illinois to Florida, spending the season with not one, but two, grandmothers and relations.
Any Christmas dinner for 30 or so members of the same family won't be without its drama, and I'm sure that one didn’t surprise. But my memories of that December were more focused on the transportation: A Cessna 205 with an N-number ending 99Z.
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The Atlantic
Eight out of nine passengers, and the flight attendant, were throwing up — whether from the turbulence itself or from fear, I couldn't tell. We'd already been thrashing around for an hour and a half on what was ordinarily a 30-minute trip, rain pelting the windows as the flight captain and I struggled to make it through a thunderstorm. And then, as if to reinforce my guilt over letting us take off in the first place, we got struck by lightening.
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AVweb
Recently, Sea Rescue, a TV show produced by ABC, will showcase last winter's efforts by general aviation pilots to help relocate endangered sea turtles stranded on Massachusetts beaches. The program follows the journey of the "great turtle airlift," as GA pilots volunteer their time and their airplanes to help transport the turtles to facilities that can care for them until they're ready to be released into the wild.
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AVweb
A new study suggests pilots hit by lasers in flight don't suffer any lasting eye damage from the attacks. Researchers at the University of Calgary said they looked at the medical records of 58 male and three female pilots who were examined shortly after reporting a laser strike between April of 2012 and November of 2014. Many reported momentary blindness and blurry vision after being hit by the laser but all recovered.
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