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Order DC ONE-X and DC PRO Series headsets online at www.davidclark.com © 2018 David Clark Company Incorporated An Employee Owned ® Green headset domes are a David Clark registered trademark. American Company WWW.DAVIDCLARK.COM 230-35383 ONE-X-PRO-X App 8X1075COPA.indd 1 5/7/18 2:44 PM coNTENTS DEpaRTMENTS 4 PRESident’S CORNER ADVANCING AND PROMOTING 7 MAILBOX AVIATION INCLUSION 8 CONVENTION UPDATES GET READY FOR SaINT JOHN 12 KNOW YOUR AIRPLANE BASIC MECHANICS AN ASSET 14 NAVAID MODERNIZATION 43 MAKE YOUR FEELINGS KNOWN 20 INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS FEATURE LEARNING FROM OTHERS 43 EVERYMAn’S JET? 28 ON THE HORIZON MARK YOUR CALENDARS The Cirrus Vision SF50 isn’t the fastest, highest flying or longest range jet but that’s the whole point. With docile handling, a stall speed comparable to a high performance single and enough built-in safety features to keep a pilot ON THE coVER: Jeannie Charrois entered out of trouble, it could very well be the jet for the average GA pilot. Ontario this terrific photo of her family’s RV-10 in member Mark Brooks took a demo flight recently in Toronto and jotted COPA’s Freedom to Fly Photo Contest. down his impressions. Photo by Jeannie Charrois Flight Larry Biever, Alberta & NWT Joe Hessberger, BC & Yukon Phil Englishman, Southern Ontario EDITOR COPA BOARD Russ Niles Executive Committee Cheryl Marek, Southern Ontario [email protected] 250.546.6743 Jean Messier Bill Mahoney, Newfoundland & Labrador Chair, Quebec Director GRAPHIC DESIGNER Brian Pound, Maritimes Shannon Swanson Bram Tilroe Lloyd Richards, Northern Ontario Western Vice-Chair ASSOCIATE EDITOR Alberta & NWT Director Honorary Director John Bogie Steve Drinkwater Brian Chappell DISPLay ADVERTISING saLES Eastern Vice-Chair Katherine Kjaer Maritimes Director Canadian Owners 250.592.5331 [email protected] Jim Bell and Pilots Association Secretary 75 Albert Street, Suite 903, CLassIFIED ADVERTISING Manitoba & Nunavut Director Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 SALES & PRODUCTION COORDINATOR 613-236-4901 | www.copanational.org Maureen Leigh Jonathan Beauchesne 1.800.656.7598 Treasurer Find us on Facebook [email protected] Quebec Director CIRCULATION Maureen Leigh Ex-officio Bernard Gervais President and CEO COPA Members $15 per year ACCOUNTING Anthea Williams Non-Members $30 per year Elected Directors Single Copy Price $4.95 ASSISTANT ADMIN Rajei Gill Shane Armstrong, Saskatchewan (includes mailing in Canada) COpa FLIGHT | JUNE 2018 3 FROM THE TOP PRESident’S CORNER WITH BERNARD GERVAIS WE DESIGN AND& BUILD HANGARS OUR MISSION Individual • Corporate • FBO’s • T-Hangars AT WORK Here’s wHaT WE CAN DO FOR YOU: Architectural & Engineered Drawings Municipal Applications & Permits Airport Applications & Approvals ADVANCe… in which to track their upcoming flight Transport Canada & NavCan Applications It’s not always simple to get more hours, along with our Aviation Scholar- Complete Construction people into aviation to advance and ship Guide, published in partnership promote our passion; it takes a lot with the Air Canada Pilots Association. Questions? Phone 519.857.7639 of effort and dedication. On May 3, We are also expanding the program to or visit www.secandco.com COPA was proud to be in Edmonton allow you to take youngsters up for a If you already have a design or to witness Elevate Aviation, a national flight any time in the year, not just on a drawings, send it along for a free estimate. organization that started in Edmonton, COPA-for-Kids day, giving you and the BAS Inc. FE 2011 Email (CAD or PDF) to [email protected] receive a substantial grant from the passengers a lot more flexibility. See BASBAS Inc. Inc. FE FE 2011 2011 or fax 519.679.2200 BAS Inc. FE 2011 hands of the federal Minister of Status your local COPA Flight for details. BASBAS Inc.Inc. FEFE 20112011 of Women, the Honourable Maryam U S C O M B E • • L C E T S S Monsef, to create a strategic plan to ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND F N A A R • C H P I C P establish and implement ways to create PRESERVE THE CANADIAN E E E N2849A R B economic security for women through FREEDOM TO FLY A I R C S R E careers in aviation. Elevate has been In one of our e-Flights emails you may A I R F INC O T BAS S S S AF CE ETY AC able to garner support from major have seen that, last Nov. 21, COPA HARNESSES AND industry partners, and all are excited to submitted an exemption request that BEECHCRAFT • LUSCOMBE • CESSNA • PIPER partake in this project, which brings a “No hard time, including calendar [email protected] new dimension of women in aviation by time, for the overhaul of variable pitch [email protected] N2849A focusing on economic security. COPA propellers need be observed in the N2849A [email protected]@[email protected]@basinc-aeromod.com was proud to speak for all of you in case of small aircraft with reciprocat- endorsing this project, and we certainly ing engines in non-commercial private BAS INC AIRCRAFT SAFETY HARNESSES AND ACCESSORIES look forward to seeing the results in operations” to Transport Canada — the near future. I will personally put Civil Aviation (TCCA). Fast forward to some time into this, supporting the en- April 2018 when we met with TCCA, deavours of the team and assuring the who is looking at finding supporting success of a project I firmly believe in. fact-based evidence, talking to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) ADVANCE AND PROMOte… as well as investigating what, in the In our case, we have revamped the 12-month inspections, can be done to COPA for Kids program this year to see trends or indications of possible make sure there’s something for the failures of props. COPA is ultimately youngsters after they step out of the looking at exempting private constant- aircraft. Starting this year, the program speed props from the requirement to is now giving all those interested 14- overhaul every 10 years in favour of a to 17-year-olds a free online ground more cost-effective inspection that al- school course to get them to their PPL lows owners to reinvest in other safety- exam and a full-sized COPA logbook improving equipment. www.basinc-aeromod.com 4 COpa FLIGHT | JUNE 2018 LE MOT DU PRÉSIDENT BERNARD GERVAIS Oshawa Airport Hangarminiums INC. 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