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The Journal of the Canadian Owners and Pilot’s Association FlightJANUARY 2018 CRASH SIMULATION HELPING AIRPORTS BE READY CHECK PILOT CHANGE TCCA STEPS OUT OF PROCESS IFR CHECK RIDE CHANGE COPA DRIVES RULE RELAXATION SATELLITES AND GA NEW TECH ON THE HORIZON Photos of the Year Great Entries in Our Annual Contest (P.38) Over 70 Classified Ads (P.45) PM#42583014 Flight coNTENTS EDITOR Russ Niles [email protected] 250.546.6743 DISPLAY ADVERTISING SALES Katherine Kjaer 250.592.5331 [email protected] CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SALES AND PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Maureen Leigh 1.800.656.7598 [email protected] CIRCULATION Maureen Leigh ACCOUNTING Anthea Williams ASSISTANT ADMIN Rajei Gill COPA Members $15 per year Non-Members $30 per year Single Copy Price $4.95 (includes mailing in Canada) 38 COPA BOARD FEATURE Bernard Gervais, President and CEO 38 PHOTO OF THE YEAR Executive Committee We got almost 50 photos from every corner of Canada for our 2017 Photo Jean Messier of the Year contest and a lot were beautiful sunset shots like the one above Chair, Quebec Director by Dennis Perron. We also got a huge variety of airplane portraits, scenery Bram Tilroe shots out the window and images captured by action cameras mounted on Western Vice-Chair, Alberta & NWT Director the outside of the aircraft. In the end we picked an overall winner and two Brian Chappell runners up for our Photos of the Year. We also picked an image that will go Eastern Vice-Chair, Maritimes Director on the background of the 2018 COPA membership card. Go to page 38 for Jim Bell Secretary, Manitoba & Nunavut Director the winners and some other really nice examples of aviation photography. Jonathan Beauchesne Treasurer, Quebec Director Elected Directors DEPARTMENTS Shane Armstrong, Saskatchewan 4 President’s CORNER ADS-B CONTRADICTIONS Larry Biever, Alberta & NWT Joe Hessberger, BC & Yukon 8 MX ADETEILBO CTING DANGER Phil Englishman, Conrad Hatcher, Cheryl Marek, Southern Ontario 10 NEWSLINE CHECK PILOT CHANGES, IFR TESTING RELAXED Bill Mahoney, Newfoundland & Labrador Brian Pound, Maritimes 16 COLUMNS SAT-FI FOR GA, AFFORdabLE ULTRALIGHT… Lloyd Richards, Northern Ontario Honorary Director 26 ON THE HORIZON MARK YOUR CALENdaRS John Bogie 28 NEWS BY REGION DRILLS AND HONOURS Canadian Owners and Pilots Association 75 Albert Street, Suite 903, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 613-236-4901 | www.copanational.org COVER ART: A Canadian scene on the Burntwood River that Find us on Facebook earned second spot in our photo contest. Photo by Bruce Bowles COPA FLIGHT | JANUARY 2018 3 FROM THE TOP President’s Corner WITH BERNARD GERVAIS WE DESIGN AND& BUILD HANGARS Individual • Corporate • FBO’s • T-Hangars Space-BASED ADS-B T CCA, NAV CANADA AT ODDS Here’s wHaT WE CAN DO FOR YOU: Architectural & Engineered Drawings Over two years after my first com- ELTs rely on an old mechanical g-switch Municipal Applications & Permits Airport Applications & Approvals ments about the Aireon tracking technology, a fragile whip antenna and Transport Canada & NavCan Applications system presentation given by Nav a wide variety of installation quality. All Complete Construction Canada (see President’s Corner, Janu- can be greatly surpassed by stronger ary 2016), the project is taking shape sold-state devices and the antenna we Questions? Phone 519.857.7639 with more satellites going up, won- already use for our transponder. Even or visit www.secandco.com derful technology taking us out of the the simple accelerometers we have in If you already have a design or stone age where aircraft will be able our phones can probably do a better drawings, send it along for a free estimate. to be seen all over the world. job than the ELTs. BAS Inc. FE 2011 Email (CAD or PDF) to [email protected] And even though there is still no offi- BASBAS Inc. Inc. FE FE 2011 2011 or fax 519.679.2200 So as we look at a possible mandate BAS Inc. FE 2011 cial mandate for Automatic Dependent for ADS-B out, one of our require- BASBAS Inc.Inc. FEFE 20112011 Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out ments is for the development of a U S C O M B E • • L C E S S in Canada as spelled out by Transport F T N safety feature that would replace the A A R • C H P I C P Canada (TC), Nav Canada says there 406MHz ELT with as good a track E E E N2849A R B will clearly be a mandate. In fact, they record as space-based ADS-B is pur- A I R C S R E are asking for feedback on their “Terms A I ported to have. Back in January 2016, R F INC O T BAS S S S AF CE ETY AC of Reference — Canadian ADS-B Out I said: “What’s preventing it from be- HARNESSES AND Mandate” as you read this. Pressed for ing applied to private or general avia- BEECHCRAFT • LUSCOMBE • CESSNA • PIPER an answer, TC officially yssa “nope”, [email protected] tion? Right now, it’s a technical race while NC says “of course we will have between something that arbitrarily [email protected] N2849A ADS-B Out.” I have yet to figure this works (ELTs) and something that will N2849A [email protected]@[email protected]@basinc-aeromod.com one out. Regardless, we’re in the pro- most always work as long as your cess of looking at what’s best for us, ADS-B transponder transmits, and BAS INC AIRCRAFT SAFETY HARNESSES AND ACCESSORIES for our members and for general avia- give you a much better chance of be- tion in the country, trying to leverage ing found should something happen.” this technology above our heads as we General aviation is entitled to the fly across the country. I will refrain from same level of safety as the airlines and comments or an opinion at this point. the big commercial operators. In the One thing I am absolutely certain of is meantime, we still encourage everyone that this system could replace any form to use an ELT, personal locator beacons of Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) or any other means such as portable such as the 406MHz which TC should devices for alerting search and rescue. make mandatory for us in the near fu- And don’t forget to listen to 121.5 MHz ture. Several recent incidents in the past on another radio if you have one. months (June 2017 in Cranbrook and COPA Flights will be consulted in this past November around Revelstoke, the next few weeks on the ADS-B both in BC) have shown once again that subject, as well as several others. Stay when ELTs don’t go off, they’re just a tuned for the invitation and have a few useless pounds in the aircraft. Our safe and happy new year. www.basinc-aeromod.com 4 COPA FLIGHT | JANUARY 2018 LE MOT DU PRÉSIDENT BERNARD GERVAIS Oshawa Airport Hangarminiums INC. 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Plus de deux ans après mes premiers nique (g-switch), une fragile antenne All units are Steel• T-Hangars Pre-Engineered Buildings with •insulated C-Unit AttachedConveniently walls and Box roofslocated Hangars as at wellthe Oshawa as Executive Airport, just 60 km from Toronto City Airport commentaires au sujet de la présen- fouet et des installations de qualité à • 65’Electric x 50’ Twin Bi-Fold Hangar441 Doors.Aviator Units Lane, Oshawa, Ontario • 50’ x 45’ Twin Hangar Units tation de repérage Aireon faite par tout le moins variables. 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Même les 441 Aviator Lane, Oshawa, Ontario permettant à tous les aéronefs d’être accéléromètres sur nos téléphones Call For more information, specs and photos, visit 905-436-2600Oshawa Airport vus partout autour du monde. peuvent probablement faire un meil- Hangarminiums www.oshawaairporthangarminiums.comINC. or call 905-436-2600 Et même s’il n’y pas encore de leur travail que les ELT. EST. 2009 mandat officiel pour la surveillance En se tournant vers un mandat dépendante automatique en mode possible de l’ADS-B Out, une de nos Hangarminium Units available for purchase or rent: • T-Hangars diffusion (ADS-B) Out tel que pre- demandes est le développement • C-Unit Attached Box Hangars • 65’ x 50’ Twin Hangar Units scrit par Transports Canda (TC), Nav d’un dispositif de sécurité qui pourra • 50’ x 45’ Twin Hangar Units Canada (NC) dit plutôt qu’il y en aura remplacer nos ELT et offrir une fiche All units are Steel Pre-Engineered Buildings with insulated walls certainement un.