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IAOPA
Dr. Fang Lui, ICAO secretary general, Mr. Patrick Ky, EASA executive director, and The Honorable Michael Huerta, FAA administrator will welcome delegates to the 28th IAOPA World Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, (21-24 July) during an opening session moderated by AOPA Live's Tom Haines. Key industry and government executives will be talking candidly about their vision for general aviation and the needs of general aviation in the future. These discussions will lay the groundwork on which affiliates will be deciding the priorities and efforts of IAOPA for years to come.
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Peninsula News Review
It's been an exciting spring break for Cadet Flight Sergeant Wynn Toronitz, 16, of Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, and his fellow cadet pilots at the Regional Cadet Air Operations Pacific in Comox.
The main focus for the Spring Gliding camp is to upgrade their solo glider pilot license to the Front Seat Familiarization rating. This allows them to take a passenger during flights.
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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
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Canadian Skies
The 2016 CF-18 demonstration jet will pay tribute to a formative period in the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The newly painted Hornet, unveiled at a ceremony at 4 Wing in Cold Lake, Alberta, on April 5, 2016, highlights the 75th anniversary of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), a program that ran from 1939 to 1945 and generated 131,553 aircrews for the Allies during the Second World War.
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| 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.
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By Mark Huber
 A stagnant fatal accident rate combined with pressure from the NTSB and Congress is forcing the FAA to take a hard look at its current regulations governing occupant safety and crashworthy fuel systems in rotorcraft. This ultimately could lead to regulation that includes mandated system retrofits. The problem stems from regulatory changes made in 1989 that mandated crashworthy seating and 1994 that required crashworthy fuel systems in all new-production helicopters.
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FLYING Magazine
According to author James Benelli: "Good judgment comes with experience; unfortunately, experience is usually gained through bad judgment." That saying is probably as old as Wilbur and Orville. We old pilots have developed our good habits through many years of flying and training.
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Air & Space Magazine
The Wright brothers' original patent application for a "flying machine," which had been missing for 36 years, has turned up in an underground storage center in Kansas. The find, reported in detail in The Washington Post and The Kansas City Star over the weekend, came 113 years, almost to the day, after the brothers filed their patent on March 23, 1903.
They were turned down at the time (the first powered flight was still months away), and the patent wasn’t granted until 1906.
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Chicago Tribune
Sitting in the kitchen of his Orland Park home, Ken Creed explains "the hundred dollar hamburger."
"You've got a plane, you love to fly, but you've got nowhere to go, so you fire it up and head out to a restaurant a few hours away, eat a hamburger and come home," he said.
Eventually, Creed decided he wanted to set his sights on a more meaningful destination, which is how he found his way into humanitarian work.
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General Aviation News
According to author Jeffrey Madison: I once was the instructor for a high fashion student. Her day-trading job had recently netted her a lot of money. Her hard work paid out handsomely and she wanted everyone to know it. If that meant stepping out of the pilot's seat of her own airplane in stylish high heels, so be it.
Her determination to train in haute couture stressed out more than a few flight instructors at the FBO where I worked. They were frustrated by her lack of progress — the result of poor rudder control — and her dismissal of the many other dangers of flying in heels.
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