Exploring the Quebec Backcountry CHALLENGING TIMES
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DIVERSITY CHALLENGE WOMEN, FIRST NATIONS FINDING THEIR WAY IN AVIATION PRINT IS ALIVE Aviation Book Publishing In Digital Age SKI TRIP EXPLORING THE QUEBEC BACKCOUNTRY MAX IS BACK How Pilots Will Keep It Safe BATTLES LOST The Worst Warplane Ever? CHALLENGING TIMES COVID and Controllers www.canadianaviator.com MARCH/APRIL 2021 $6.95 GARMIN’S CANADA’s most D2 AIR POPULAR AVIATION Aviation NEWSSTAND Smartwatch PM42583014 R10939 TITLE Review DISPLAY UNTIL APRIL 30, 2021 MTOW 750kBg / URsefuIl SloadT 300Ekg /L CeLrtifi edB NIG2HT/V3FR Dual Garmin Glass cockpit, Garmin autopilot Steerable nose wheel Three blade constant speed propeller Wing luggage compartement 2x 20 kg Fuel tanks 120l Rescue system BRISTELL.COM MARCH/APRIL 2021 VOLUME 31 NUMBER 2 n n THIS ISSUE n WWW.CANADIANAVIATOR.COM 5 WALKAROUND Let’s Get Training 6 WAYPOINTS Planes, Products, News 9 AIRMAIL Due Credit, War Hero Memories 10 GEAR AND GADGETS Four New Product Reviews 12 RIGHT SEAT Max is Back 14 HEALTHY PILOT Pacemaker Considerations 16 ON THE STEP Building Confidence 36 18 Sam’s Journey 36 FIRST NATIONS Quebec Backcountry TRAINING INSTITUTE 20 Cole’s NOTES Many First Nations communities De Havilland History are reliant on aviation for supplies, transportation and emergency 22 EXPERT PILOT services but Indigenous pilots Common Knowledge have been few and far between. The First Nations Training 24 PEP TALK Institute aims to change that Ground Effect with programs geared specifically to that demographic. 26 VECTORS By AnnA PAngrAzzi Controller Downsized 42 FLIGHT ATTENDANT TO 28 UNUSUAL ATTITUDES PILOT Preparation Is Key Allison Couch knew her future 30 ON THE ROCK was in aviation and at a young 42 age she’s already experienced it Flying Priest from a variety of perspectives. 32 DOWNEAST She’s been a maintenance planner and flight attendant but 60 Years of P&WC her goal has always been to be 34 TALES FROM THE LAKEVIEW in the cockpit. She takes us on that journey so far. A Terrible Warplane By Allison CouCh 47 GARMIN D2 AIR ON THE COVER The past decade has seen a proliferation of wearable On the Cover technology and the new watch Quebec’s back - from Garmin has a host of country offers myriad adventures. features specifically for pilots. Photo by Samuel Daigle It might also remind you to stop and smell the flowers. 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Aviation was already on the career, but that lure of challenge, adven- sectoral support for the avia- cusp of an acute labour shortage as the ture and faraway places that has kept the B tion industry to combat the flood of employment that characterized pipeline filled is less productive than ever. devastating effects of the CO- the 1970s through the 1990s matures into The pandemic and the economic hard- VID-19 pandemic isn’t forthcoming from a giant retirement bubble. All those well ship it has caused has compounded that the federal government. Indeed, slashing paid, well represented pilots, technicians with an exodus of skilled workers looking travel options is a fundamental tool for and specialists are looking forward to for alternative employment. controlling the spread of the disease. comfortable retirements with little incen- Add it all up and there’s the possibil- As companies struggle just to keep the tive to stay on in a work environment that ity that there will not be enough people lights on and thousands of people lose their has changed a lot in the past 30 years. left to manage the recovery we all hope jobs, it’s hard to look to the future but that’s Meanwhile the work/life balance priori- for. As counterintuitive as it seems, now exactly what the industry needs to be do- ties that increasingly guide the career paths is the time to expand training and re- ing if it wants to avoid a staffing crisis that of younger workers don’t favour the odd cruitment to ensure the recovery from could be more devastating than the virus. hours that, ironically, workers in service in- the pandemic doesn’t come with a pain- Although much of the industry seems dustries like aviation endure to make that ful and lingering hangover. It will be up to be at a standstill, time marches on and convenient 9-5 lifestyle possible for so many. to businesses large and small to manage the mere passage of time represents an Of course, there will always be those their own futures by ensuring they have existential threat to any hope of future who are laser-focused on an aviation the workforce they need. Pratt & Whitney Canada Distributor and Designated Overhaul Facility (DDOF) Specializing in the Maintenance and Overhaul of the PT6A, R-985 & R-1340 Engine Series www.covingtonaircraft.com • Ph. (918) 756-8320 Se Habla Espanol • FAA Repair Station No. CP2R750K WWW.CANADIAnAvIAtoR.COM 5 COMPILED BY RUSS NILES n n WAY.POINTS n A,N,48,11.041,16,18.132,08/23/2000, CANADIAN AVIATION NEWS 20:5 A,N,48,11.041,16,18.132,08/23/2000, WaY.POINTS 20:53:03,ZOO,20:53:03,ZO A,NA,N,48,11.041,16,18.132,08/23/2000,20:5 A,N,48,11.041,16,18.132,08/23/2000,20:5 A,N,48,11.041,16,18.132,08/23/2000, 20:53:03,0,200A,NA Major GA Building Initiative in the Okanagan KELOWNA FLYING CLUB TO BUILD MUCH NEEDED HANGARS The Kelowna Flying Club Leading KGAS is KFC’s president Dave (L) Image of a similar layout plan. (R) An aerial view > (KFC) proposes to develop McElroy, a former Canadian Owners and of the current General Aviation aircraft parking area. a 5.5-acre plot of land on the west Pilots Association chairman the founder side of the central Okanagan airport of Give Hope Wings, an organization that per hangar. KGAS also plans to include (CYLW) into a much-improved site raises funds for national charity Hope Air. a self-serve Avgas sales and dispensing that would include 42 steel T-han- “Together with our airport partners, facility on the site. gars and around 50 paved outdoor we will transform YLW into the premier “This development project will increase tie-down spots. Paved taxiways will General Aviation destination airport in and diversify airport revenues, while interconnect the site with north/ Canada by 2025,” McElroy told Canadian lowering the airport’s administrative and south-aligned Taxiway D. Of the 50 Aviator. “We’ve received positive expres- maintenance costs to deliver the service tie-downs, 10 would be made avail- sions of interest for most of the paved tie- of managing general aviation parking,” able for itinerant parking. down spots and for the hangars too.” senior airport operations manager Phil- The not-for-profit KFC formed a sub- KGAS is taking a novel approach to lip Elchitz told Canadian Aviator. “There is sidiary, Kelowna General Aviation Servic- the project by making it a ‘cost-plus’ en- significance demand for enhanced aircraft es Ltd. (KGAS), which began discussions deavour, meaning there is no profit built parking and low-cost hangars at Kelowna late last year with the airport’s manage- into the pricing model.