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| Don't miss CIA Expo in Toronto!
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Porter Pilot Recruitment
An impressive array of speakers have confirmed participation for this year's Careers In Aviation Expo (CIA) in Toronto!
Porter Airlines president/CEO Robert Deluce will kick off the Toronto event at Porter's hangar 6 on April 9 at Toronto Billy Bishop airport. It's a great opportunity for future aviators and aerospace professionals to learn from the experts — and experience live two of Canada's top aviation companies in action!
Wings and Helicopters CIA Expos present a tremendous opportunity for those interested in aviation and aerospace careers to rub shoulders with industry leaders from a variety of sectors from coast-to-coast.
Special presentations and panel sessions highlight a broad spectrum of roles including flight operations/pilots; varied aviation professions aircraft maintenance and engineering/aircraft completions; flight schools, colleges and universities and more!
Check out the agenda: http://www.careersinaviation.ca/expo/toronto/agenda
Register online: http://www.careersinaviation.ca/expo
| COPA members it's your time to vote!
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COPA
Nominations closed on February 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.
By Dave McElroy
We will depart from British Columbia's Okanagan Valley on or about June 6 and return there a couple of weeks later. Some aircraft may wish to join us at Kelowna or Vernon for the departure — but individual aircraft will of course be free to join anywhere along the route — and of course to leave the squadron at any stage of the proposed route. We have roughed out a very tentative itinerary. At this stage it is totally flexible; it can and will be adjusted to conform to the wishes of participating pilots. Highlights of this iteration suggest: 4,400 nm — 30 hours at 150 knots or 40 hours at 110 knots
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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.
AVweb
Women of Aviation Week will kick off with the arrival of an Air Canada flight at Vancouver International Airport. Onboard the airplane will be an all-female flight crew and they'll be cleared to land by a female air traffic controller in a media event. That it took a coordinated effort by WOAW, Air Canada and Nav Canada to put together perhaps highlights the gender imbalance in aviation.
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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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Cowichan Valley Citizen
According to author Fergus Anderson: I feel I have to add comment to the letters of Manuel Erickson and Bernice Ramsdin. She is quite right, in spite of what Erickson says, about small aircraft over Chemainus. They are there and they are noisy.
What the lady needs to know is that almost all the cutting out and revving up of these machines is part of a practice manoeuvre called "stall and recovery." Flying in the forested mountains of British Columbia is a dangerous business and all pilots have to learn all they can about keeping their machine in the air.
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The Peterborough Examiner
Snowmobiles sometimes break through the lake ice at this time of the year in the Kawarthas but this time it was an airplane.
A small two-seat airplane crashed through the ice in Lancaster Bay, Ontario, just north of Fowlers Corners, Pam Donaldson reported online at UR Peterborough.
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The Atlantic
Thanks to many people who have written in, over the past 24 hours, about another parachute-save episode involving a Cirrus airplane. Recently, over Republic airport on Long Island, a father who had been taking his teenaged daughter to see colleges in Rhode Island had an engine failure while coming back to New York. He pulled the parachute; the airplane came down safely; and then he and his daughter walked away.
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By Mark Huber
 Over the last year, there has been a barrage of negative stories in both the state and national media that basically paint the air ambulance industry as a bunch of robber barons. They say the industry charges exorbitant fees for services and then hunts down and hounds dumbfounded patients for payments. The good news: You got flown to a higher level of care that saved your life. Of course, now you are going to die of a heart attack when you get the bill.
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AVweb
Standards organization ASTM has approved two new standards for general aviation aircraft on the thorny issues of icing behavior and icing protection. ASTM says its new standards thread the needle between practicality and performance, establishing handling characteristics and icing protection for airplanes ranging in size from two-place singles to 19-seat business jets.
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Business Insider
According to author Benjamin Zhang: As Business Insider's transportation reporter, flying on planes is an integral part of my job description.
Unfortunately for me, acrophobia is also a major part of life. Simply put, I don't like heights. Although I thoroughly enjoy flying on big airliners, small planes still bug me. I don't like the instability, the single engine, and I don't like the all-too frequent instances of general aviation aircraft falling out of the sky.
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Aerospace Manaufacturing and Design
Erickson Inc., a global provider of aviation services, has an exclusive agreement with Seeker Aircraft Inc. to be the United States manufacturer of the Seeker surveillance aircraft.
The Seeker aircraft is a purpose-built light observation aircraft designed and developed for aerial surveillance missions. The aircraft provides superior fields of vision, the ability to carry a variety of sensors, and the capability of stable, slow flight.
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Air & Space Magazine
On the night of October 19, 1917, eleven German zeppelins slowly ascended from their depots and headed toward the English coast on what was expected to be a 25-hour raid. Although hampered by British anti-aircraft guns, they managed to drop all of their bombs, killing 34 people and wounding 56 others.
When the zeppelins attempted to return to base, they ran into headwinds and fog; eight of the 11 accidentally crossed the Alsatian border into Central France.
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