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Aviation Excellence Since 1946 November 2018 THE PThe VictoriaATRICIAN Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946 Remembering Our Past, 100 Years Since the End of the First World War 100 years after the end of the First World War, we take a look at some of the Victorian airmen who served and some of the places where they trained. News and Events November 2018 HE ATRICIAN News Around the Club Monthly Newsletter of The Victoria Flying Club - Aviation Excellence Since 1946 T P IMC/IFR ROUND TABLE who earn the awards will be and Commander 12 Wing are Two years and counting, the IMC announced at the quickly commemorating the end of an Round Table group is still going. approaching Wings Banquet, era. Ceremonies to celebrate “To promote flying and aviation in general, and to Their next meeting will be held on scheduled for January 26, 2019! the longest serving aircraft in teach and train persons in the art and science of flying In This Issue November 24th and occurs every Ask Customer Service for your the Canadian Armed Forces, the and navigating and operating all last Saturday of the month, 2PM awards application and about CH-124 Sea King helicopter, manner of heavier-than-air aircraft.” in the upstairs classroom. Contact tickets for the Wings Banquet. will commence at the end of (Victoria Flying Club Incorporation Bylaws, 1946) 2 News Around the Club John Ainsworth to get involved! November. In service since [email protected] WINGS BANQUET ALUMNI 1963, the Sea King served as an anti-submarine helicopter 7 Remembrance Day, November 11 PHOTOS and also came to be used in BOARD OF DIRECTORS Celebration time is just around SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS SAR operations, disaster relief, the corner, and we would love 9 Victoria's Contribution to the '20 Congrats to our alumni on fisheries and pollution patrols, PRESIDENT Ramona Reynolds Minute Club' earning awards which will be to share YOUR good news as and more. The CH-148 Cyclone VICE PRESIDENT Rob Shemilt presented at the Silver Wings VFC alumni. Have you gone will be the standard replacement. 13 First Solos and Member Industry and Scholarship Awards on to an aviation career since SECRETARY Colin Williamson See the website http://skr18.ca/ Achievements Celebration, Ilke Altindis (BCAC graduating with us? Share your for information about scheduled TREASURER Chris Peschke Career Training Scholarship), 'before and after' photos with flypasts. DIRECTORS Bill Kempthorne 15 Fly-Out Bug, COPA Quadrant Jennifer Zadorozniak (Michelle us, to be shared at the Wings Ward Memorial), Quintin Hergt Banquet 2019! Email us at John Ainsworth ADS-B OUT NOW IN BMO John Ryan (Erissa Yong Bursary). [email protected]. 17 Plane Maintenance An ADS-B Out Transponder GENERAL MANAGER Marcel Poland Contributed by Leslie Hunter (Stratus) has been installed and CHIEF FLYING Graham Palmer VFC AWARDS, 2018 END OF AN ERA, SEA KING tested on BMO, ready for 2020 INSTRUCTOR 18 Ground School Schedule Applications for several awards Our neighbours at 443 flying compliance in the US! Private Pilot are being accepted. The students Maritime Helicopter Squadron Further planes are scheduled 1852 Canso Road Sidney, BC V8L 5V5 www.flyvfc.com [email protected] Phone: 250-656-2833 Fax: 250-655-0910 What?! Half a 172 per year? Although VFC’s management team has negotiated our Front cover photo credits: Wikimedia Commons. Editor: Katy Earl credit card fees down considerably over the last year, did Manufacturing Canadian J.N.4 Airplanes; Canadian you know that VFC pays the equivalent of a half of an [email protected] Aeroplanes Ltd., Toronto, Canada. Fuselage building; machines ready for shipment. Created: 31 December 1916. airplane per year in credit card company fees? The Patrician accepts unsolicited submissions. Photo opposite, upper: Instagram: adventuretofreedom. We’d ask you to consider using cash, interact or e-transfer This publication may be reproduced in whole or Flying over Sooke basin at sunset. September 25, 2018. in paying your account to reduce unnecessary fees, yours in part, with prior permission of the publisher or and ours, because we’d like to spend that money on adding author. The opinions expressed are strictly those another plane to the fleet. of the authors. Aviation Excellence Since 1946 2 November 2018 News and Events News and Events Women in Aviation to receive similar Stratus devices, as part of our must be sponsored in writing by two Sustaining or Life NEWS AND EVENTS commitment to keep our members flying where Members in good standing and are submitted to the they want to go! Board for approval. NOV 4 VFC office hours change to 8 AM - 5 SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP OFFICE HOURS CHANGING PM Have you considered becoming a Sustaining We will be switching to winter office hours from the first NOV 11 Remembrance Day - aircraft rental Member of the Club? Sustaining and Life Members week of November. Office hours will run from 8 AM to 5 discount receive a reduced price on fuel, a discount of 10% PM. The VFC Mentor program is ongoing. Check the per hour off the hourly rental rate for aircraft, and board behind the front desk at VFC for more info. NOV 16 72nd anniversary of VFC's are entitled to one vote at each meeting of the incorporation Corporation. They also receive all Club privileges. NOV 24 IMC Round Table, 2PM in large classroom at VFC Ladies, did you know that of our Club’s 166 JAN Next round of CPL Ground School Sustaining and Life Members, only 13 are women? starts That’s less than 8%. JAN 26 Wings Banquet So how do you become a Sustaining Member? If Is your aviation-related event not listed? you have been a Flying Member in good standing This Stratus ADS-B Out Transponder was installed Congrats to Justine Aichelberger and Jesse Seads, Let us know at [email protected]. for not less than 24 consecutive months, ask for on C-GBMO. who got engaged after seeing this question at an application form from Dispatch. Applications Gobind Farms. VFC BY-LAWS, SECTION 9, ON MEMBERSHIP CPL GROUND SCHOOL Sustaining Members shall be persons admitted as such by the Board of Directors, who have held a Flying The next round is starting in January. Membership in good standing for a period of not less Join us to celebrate Reserve your seat with Dispatch today! than twenty four (24) consecutive months, and who have paid such annual fees as may be fixed from time to time the achievements of our members during 2018! by the Board of Directors. Application for Sustaining Membership must be sponsored in writing by two Sustaining Members in good standing. Each Sustaining NEED ADVERTISING? Member shall be entitled to one vote at each meeting of the Corporation and to all Club privileges. 26 JANUARY 2019 6 PM Advertising in The Patrician is affordable! Contact us for more information. Life Members shall be persons admitted by the Board [email protected] of Directors who have held a Sustaining or Flying Membership in good standing for a period of not less than twenty four (24) consecutive months, and who have paid Wings Banquet the entrance fee fixed by the Board which shall be not HIRING: FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS less than ten times the annual Sustaining Member's dues. Application from Flying Members for Life Membership $40 PER TICKET Come teach with us! must be sponsored in writing by two Sustaining or Life Send your resume to Members in good standing. Each Life Member shall be GRADUATES, NO COST [email protected] entitled to one vote at each meeting of the Corporation and to all Club privileges. CFB ESQUIMALT WARDROOM Honourary Life Members shall be persons admitted as RSVP WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE 250 656 2833 GRADS: Share YOUR good news! such by the Board of Directors provided, however, that the number thereof admitted during any one calendar We would like to share your 'before and year shall not exceed one. These members shall be after' pics at the next Wings Banquet! entitled to one vote at each meeting of the Corporation Send to: [email protected] and to all Club privileges. November 2018 3 www.flyvfc.com Aviation Excellence Since 1946 4 November 2018 f News and Events News and Events PleaseHAPPY 72ND Join ANNIVERSARY, Us At TO This US! Year’sthe decades, and weWings look forward Banquet! to many more to Victoria Flying Club Our Club's roots go back to 1919 when the Victoria come! branch of the Aerial League of Canada was set Flight Training Awards Application Form up by returning WWI air veterans. In the 1920s SELF-PACED RECENCY TEST All current VFC students/members are eligible to apply for these awards. Applications and 1930s, the Victoria Aero Club became active, Transport Canada has published in their must be submitted to Marcel Poland in the VFC office by December 31, 2018. operating largely out of Lansdowne, Willows, and latest Aviation Safety Letter information Gordon Head, private fields, as well as various water Name: _______________________________________________________________________ aerodromes. The Second World War largely brought about their Self-Paced Study Program. The Club activities to a close, however. Activities office has some printed out, or you can find Home Phone: ____________________________ Cell Phone: ___________________________ recommenced after WWII air veterans returned a PDF of the Letter here: home to Victoria, and it was on November 16, 1946 http://www.tc.gc.ca/media/documents/ca- Email: _______________________________________________________________________ that our Club received its charter. Membership publications/ASL_3-2018.pdf quickly grew to 150 within two years. Men and women came from all over Victoria to earn their Have news or a story to tell? Email us at Please provide a brief statement describing how you plan to make use of the Flight Training pilot licence at our Club, and in time from abroad.
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