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AVweb
The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) has announced a major decision that may help ensure that Canadian airport operations are not hampered by wind farms. It had a little help from some bats, too. Ontario's Environmental Review Tribunal has ruled that a proposed wind farm would potentially "harm human health" by creating obstacle hazards in the pattern for Collingwood Regional Airport in southern Ontario and Stayner aerodrome, a privately operated airstrip a few miles away.
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| COPA reaffirms importance of general aviation to Canada's transportation system
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COPA
The Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) has filed a response to the Transportation Review Act (Emmerson Report) reaffirming the importance of general aviation as a vital component of Canada's transportation infrastructure. In its comments, COPA points out that the Emmerson Report has made no mention of GA's multi-billion contribution to Canada's ability to provide a myriad of other crucial services, but instead only focused on the commercial and scheduled services carriers’ role. COPA President and CEO Bernard Gervais stressed that the report failed to recognize and exploit the existence and importance of general aviation in the assessment of Canada's transportation need.
Gervais goes on to let Transport Canada know that "for general aviation to continue to fulfill this vital role in Canada's transportation infrastructure, its special needs require to be acknowledged, formalized and satisfied. An aviation policy for Canada should include not only enabling legislation and support for commercial aviation but just as importantly also specifically and separately for general aviation. For regulators at all levels to benefit most, COPA offers to work collaboratively with all levels of government on matters affecting GA. Continued areas of concern for the GA sector include:
- The lack of a land use policy which will assure airports have a safe, obstacle free and neighbor-friendly operating environment.
- The frequent application on GA of regulations designed for commercial operators and the inability of regulators to distinguish regulations proportionate to the risk GA operations pose.
- The lack of an airports policy encouraging municipalities to define land areas where airports may be built, including privately funded aerodromes.
- Regulatory compliance costs which are not proportionate to the risks GA operations present.
- The lack of an Aviation Policy specifically addressing regulations from a GA perspective."
For more information and to see the entire response please visit COPA's website.
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Calgary Herald
The years and the miles flew by for Sherry Irvine as she once again sat in the rear seat of her dad's much-loved, old Aeronca Champion plane.
As a young girl, more than half a century earlier, she'd first climbed into the two-seater aircraft, her father Aevult Schlenker at the controls, and they'd soared together over the family farm near Medicine Hat.
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Alaska Highway News
Pilots came from far and wide to the Dawson Creek airport to take part in the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) aviation gathering on Saturday.
Kevin Psutka, president of COPA, said the group chose to hold its annual general meeting in Dawson Creek to give their members a chance to show off their aircraft.
"This is a once a year event for pilots of light aircraft to come and celebrate aviation," said Psutka.
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Zenair’s all-metal STOL designs are sold as standard or advanced kits. The roomy CH 750 on floats is more popular than ever with recreational pilots; the CH 801 has an impressive 1,000 lbs useful load; the classic CH701 “sky Jeep” still sets the standard in its category after 30 years! Read More...
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Waterloo Chronicle
After more than a decade of searching across Canada for a long-lost plane from his past, a local flying enthusiast has finally located it and is inviting the community to help him restore it so it can fly once again. Sameer Haqqi spent 12 years searching for the 1967 Cessna 337B Super Skymaster aircraft before finding the shell, stripped of all working components, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, earlier this year.
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Skies Magazine
For the first time, a Canadian pilot has been selected to receive a Ben Wiplinger Memorial Seaplane Rating Scholarship from Wipaire, Inc. Established in 2015; the scholarship provides $1,500 for recipients to pursue a seaplane rating and to further the community of seaplane pilots in honour of Wiplinger's contributions.
While the scholarship was originally only intended to celebrate Wipaire's 55th anniversary in 2015, it was so successful that it was renewed for 2016 and will be available again in 2017.
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AVweb
China's first general aviation "airpark" will open to the public soon and will feature a host of services and industries based on non-scheduled aviation activity. The Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC) says it wants to build 50 facilities like the one it’s almost finished in Jingmen in Central China's Hubei province. The services and basic facilities at the 30-square-kilometer AVIC Airpark are done and include a 6,000-foot runway, a 2,800-foot runway and an adjoining reservoir where seaplanes can land and take off.
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General Aviation News
The pilot reported that he was returning from an air race competition and that, about 15 minutes into the flight, he heard a "thump" and thought the Lancair Legacy had struck a bird. He then heard a second "thump" along with a "rattle and vibration," so he found a place to make a forced landing.
While preparing to land, he heard an "explosion" and then saw flames by his left foot and black smoke fill the cockpit. The pilot made a forced landing to a field near Livingston, Texas, and exited the airplane before it was destroyed by fire.
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AVweb
While those of us in the cheap seats uniformly cheer for low oil prices because, well, we can buy more gas and fly more, what if the reverse were true? What if anemic oil prices are the cause of declining aircraft sales? Writing this week in Aviation Week, the Teal Group's Richard Aboulafia made this very argument, albeit one that applies to high-end business aircraft.
Transposing the curves of global oil prices over those of business aircraft sales, Teal finds a fit.
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