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Chilliwack Progress
The final pies are being baked, the employees have their layoff notices, crowds are gathering for one last slice, and the iconic Chilliwack Airport Coffee Shop is set to close its doors for good.
Recreational pilots across British Columbia know Chilliwack because of the coffee shop and its famous "I Fly for Pie" logo that put the city on the map.
But after 36 years in operation, and a long and contracted dispute with management of the airport, the three Good sisters who run the coffee shop have been told to be out by Feb. 28.
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TheChronicleHerald.ca
A Nova Scotia firm has pioneered a new anti-laser guard to protect pilots threatened by those flashing increasingly powerful lasers at airliner cockpits.
Designed by Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and its optical filters division, Lamda Guard, the guard is a thin film that can be fixed to the inside of a cockpit window to protect pilots. Metamaterial announced a deal with Airbus Tuesday to test and certify its new product at Halifax's Discovery Centre.
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CBC News
The Ontario Provincial Police officials say they are "deeply concerned" that a person pointed a laser at one of the force's helicopters during a training exercise in Elgin County on Monday night.
No one was injured. A search is on for the suspect.
Sgt. Peter Leon, provincial media relations co-ordinator for the OPP, based in Orillia, Ontario, said the pilot was able to maintain control of the helicopter and landed the aircraft safely at about 9:30 p.m. in the area of Elgin County, on the north shore of Lake Erie and south of London.
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SKIES Magazine
On Feb. 13, 2017, MCpl Jesse Sorensen was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal from the United States Air Force for meritorious service from April 1, 2011, to July 9, 2016.
Sorensen is currently serving in the Combined Air Operations Centre at 1 Canadian Air Division in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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SKIES Magazine
The October 2016 crash of a 1974 Cessna Citation eight minutes after takeoff from Kelowna, British Columbia, which killed the pilot and his three passengers, is focusing fresh attention on Canada's regulations governing cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) and flight data recorders. Currently, only Canadian multi-engine, turbine-powered commercial aircraft flown by two pilots and carrying six or more passengers are required to carry a CVR.
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Leduc Representative
For more than 40 years in Leduc, Alberta, the Canadian Air Cadets program has strived to provide education to promote an interest in the air element of the Canadian Forces, along with promoting the importance of physical fitness, leadership, camaraderie and other important life skills for youth ages 12 to 18.
The 831 Squadron out of Leduc continues to maintain its presence in the city and provide a place for youth by providing a variety of fun, challenging and rewarding activities.
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FLYING Magazine
Anyone who knows the airline industry will agree that it faces one pressing and indisputable issue: High-seniority pilots from the regional airlines are being recruited by the major carriers to crew growing fleets, creating an acute shortage of qualified pilots coming into the regional airline system as first officers.
The shortage of qualified pilots in North America is impacting operations in ways no airline has experienced before, but it's a problem many saw coming after the passage of Public Law 111-216, aka the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010, which went into effect on August 1, 2013.
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Plane & Pilot
Raron, Switzerland: This little Alpine village, also the final resting place of the celebrated poet Rainer Maria Rilke, is tucked away in the Canton of Valais. Here, you can almost hear him polishing his lines: "To write a single verse, you must first see many towns, people and things; you need to know the animals, and feel how the birds fly."
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General Aviation News
According to author Ben Visser: I recently received a question on octane ratings similar to the questions I typically receive. The reader wanted to know what the rich and lean rating would be for 100, 110, 112, 114 and 118 octane racing gasolines. And what would be the R+M/2 of 80/87, 100/130, 100LL, and 115/145 avgas?
The problem here is that the octane rating of a fuel is not a physical property of a fuel, it is a performance property. It is like someone asking "What is the horsepower rating on a Lycoming 540 engine?"
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FLYING Magazine
People like to ask, "What was your favorite flight?" There are so many, I wouldn't know how to choose. But ask me to choose my least favorite flight, and I can tell you in a heartbeat. It started on a beautiful February day. My buddy Shaun decided to join me. We made a lot of good decisions during that flight, except one: Taking off.
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AVweb
It's probably even money that every pilot who has flown more than 40 hours has awakened in a cold sweat after having had a takeoff nightmare — trying to get performance out of an airplane that is barely in the air, unwilling to climb and rushing toward something tall and menacing.
It's even worse when you're awake and it's happening for real: You're in a loaded airplane that has been reluctant to leave the runway and now is not showing any interest in climbing over the trees. How did you get there and what can you do about it?
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