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| COPA Flight Challenge: Win an Oshkosh AirVenture VIP Prize
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COPA
The COPA Flight that recruits the most COPA members (new or membership expired before July 31, 2015) will win the "bragging rights." The Grand Prize will be drawn between all participating COPA Flights. The winning COPA Flight will then draw the Grand Prize amongst its members. Prize includes: Helicopter flight for two over AirVenture 2016; two VIP passes to the Airshow Pavilion; two adult weekly passes and much more. For more information and the challenge form follow these links:
eFlight — COPA Flight Challenge
eFlight — COPA Flight Challenge Form
| COPA Yarmouth Convention, AGM
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COPA
Plan your vacation and join COPA Flight 63 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia as they host the COPA Convention and Annual General Meeting June 24-25, 2016. Talk to the exhibitors, take in a seminar or two and get an update on COPA National activities since the last year's AGM in Winnipeg. Visit www.copanational.org for further information and to register.
Vankleek Hill Review
The thrill of flying is infectious. Royal Canadian Air Force Captain Isabelle Labonté, of the 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, said that from the very first time she flew, she knew that she wanted to become a pilot.
Her first time in the air was spent in a glider, enjoying the silence surrounding her as she flew through blue skies with the Air Cadet glider program.
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COPA
Nominations closed on Feb. 4, 2016, for COPA directors positions in seven regions.
In Manitoba/Nunavut, Northern Ontario and Newfoundland/Labrador, there was one nominee for director and therefore the nominees in each of those regions won by acclamation. Congratulations to Jim Bell, Lloyd Richards and Ray Hawco.
Elections are being held in B.C./Yukon, Alberta/NWT, Saskatchewan and the Maritimes. Voting takes place between February 24 and April 4. Visit www.copanational.org for more information.
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Canadian Skies
Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, delivered a Canadian registered Cessna Citation CJ3+ aircraft to fractional operator AirSprint Inc.
"With more than 150 Cessna Citation light jets in the region, the CJ-series has proven to be the light jet of choice for Canadian operators, and we are confident the CJ3+ will be an ideal addition to the AirSprint fleet," said Kriya Shortt, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing.
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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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CBC News
An Air Tindi plane that was forced to land on Great Slave Lake in November 2014 took off overweight for the icy weather conditions that day, according to the Transportation Safety Board.
The Cessna 208B Caravan carrying five passengers was on its way to Fort Simpson from Yellowknife when the pilot was unable to maintain altitude due to icing and was forced to land on ice in the North Arm of the lake.
No one was injured but the airplane was damaged when it struck a rock outcropping.
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Canadian Skies
Like just about everything Arctic, the very name of Yukon-based Air North conveys a sense of adventure, mystery, and optimism. Adventure and mystery because most Canadians have yet to experience the majesty of the land above the 60th parallel, and optimism because of the vast region's potential and its indomitable residents. Even Air North's quarterly inflight magazine Yukon, North of Ordinary hints at the land's uniqueness.
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AVweb
As the inevitable autonomy of everything looms just ahead, rock-star entrepreneur Elon Musk had this to say at a recent development conference: "You can't have a person driving a two-ton death machine. It's too dangerous." And that's to say the driverless car visionaries don't just want to offer you an autonomous vehicle, they'll insist on denying you even the choice of manual operation as part of a brave new safer (and boring) future that could arrive as soon as a decade from now.
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Valley Breeze
Three years after he made the first flight in a small aircraft from Rhode Island to North Carolina using aviation biofuel, pilot Ross McCurdy is taking to the skies again, this time on a historic transcontinental flight.
The Smithfield resident and Ponaganset High School science teacher plans to fly a certified light aircraft 5,000 miles round-trip from Rhode Island to California, using biofuel made with renewable Camelina plant seed oil.
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AVweb
A reader recently questioned the wisdom of flying IFR in "old" aircraft with traditional flight displays that lack modern accouterments — GPS in particular. It's a fair question and one that deserves some thought. I have to admit that growing up in an earlier age, and having flown IFR for almost a decade before I had the luxury of even a DME, and three decades before I experienced glass, I don't feel deprived if I have to keep an E6B and a plotter handy to periodically check ground speed and ETAs. But there is more to it than this.
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General Aviation News
One of the best things about flying is the ability to see wondrous sights from a point of view few people ever have. It's a rare privilege to venture to some of the most remote parts of the country so quickly, especially considering the alternative might involve cross-country travel by snowshoe or mule. Wilderness airstrips provide splendid access to these national wilderness treasures.
Bob Bement, now 81, is a fellow who knows a good thing when he sees it.
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