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And while piling on the miles and hours LOCAL NEws AND MEMBER ACTIVITIES in his airplane, valuable lessons about flying were learned. On the ground, canoe excursions and fly fishing provided diversion and excitement away from the airways. 29 ON THE HORIZON MARK yoUR CALENDARS ON THE COVER: The midnight sun bears down on float planes docked at D.O.T. 32 BOOksHELF Lake near Norman Wells, N.W.T. as their owners attend the Great Northern Fly-In. BOOKS by CANADIAN AUTHORS Photo by Bernard Gervais. ABOUT CANADIAN AViation Clark Morawetz Flight 905-809-4835, [email protected] Québec COPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jonathan Beauchesne, Treasurer B.C. & Yukon 514-585-3959, [email protected] EDITOR David Black Steve Drinkwater 604-351-6851, [email protected] Mathieu Delorme [email protected] 514-248-5379, [email protected] & 604.229.1629 Kate Klassen Atlantic [email protected], 604-366-8211 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Bill Mahoney, Eastern Vice-Chair Russ Niles Alberta & N.W.T. 709-685-6885, [email protected] Bram Tilroe, Western Vice-Chair CAPTURE THE FEELING OF FLIGHT. L’ESSENTIEL, C’EST LE CIEL! 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COPA Members $15 per year Non-Members $30 per year Doug Ronan Single Copy Price $4.95 705-327-4730, [email protected] (includes mailing in Canada) his hers Pour lui Pour elle COPA FLIGHT | NOVEMBER 2019 3 CopaFlight-ApparelPrintAd-Feb.Final.indd 1 2019-01-13 3:25 PM FROM THE TOP PRESident’S CORNER WITH BERNARD GERVAIS WE DESIGN AND& BUILD HANGARS Individual • Corporate • FBO’s • T-Hangars LIFT GALA PILOT SAFETY AND COMMUNICATIONS Here’s wHaT WE CAN DO FOR YOU: Architectural & Engineered LIFT — FLIGHT SAFETY new and challenging initiative that we Drawings Municipal Applications & Permits FOUNDATION GALA took on and supported us, because we Airport Applications & Approvals We held our first-ever black-tie gala need to take the lead on GA safety: we Transport Canada & NavCan Applications event for the Flight Safety Foundation need to make a difference. Complete Construction (FSF),called LIFT, on October 3. It was hosted by our recently elected British MANEUVERING SPEED Questions? Phone 519.857.7639 Columbia and Yukon director Kate Klas- A safety advocate who we support, or visit www.secandco.com sen, who navigated us through WestJet Steve Thorne of Flight Chops, has re- If you already have a design or cofounder Don Bell’s and astronaut cently made a new video that is going drawings, send it along for a free estimate. Chris Hadfield’s stories and presenta- viral: “Fatal Loss of Control plane crash? BAS Inc. FE 2011 Email (CAD or PDF) to [email protected] BASBAS Inc. Inc. FE FE 2011 2011 or fax 519.679.2200 tions, keeping everyone entertained for Every four days! Airliner differences + BAS Inc. FE 2011 an evening of celebration. It wouldn’t GA’s Four big Failures”. In your mind, BASBAS Inc.Inc. FEFE 20112011 have been complete without a musical is your airplane maneuvering speed a U S C O M B E • • L C E S S performance by Chris Hadfield, where minimum or a maximum? Get hooked F T N A A R • C H P I C P he spoiled us with his unique rendition after the first two minutes of that video; E E E N2849A R B of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. Among learn and live to tell others. Check out A I R C S R E other prizes, the guitar on which Had- the rest of Flight Chops’ series of great A I R F INC O T BAS S S S AF CE ETY AC field played was professionally auc- videos on YouTube. HARNESSES AND tioned off by auctioneer (and COPA’s BEECHCRAFT • LUSCOMBE • CESSNA • PIPER legal advisor) Glenn Grenier for $4,200, [email protected] PLEasE LET US HELP YOU: WE which was only a small part of the more NEED YOUR E-MAIL ADDREss [email protected] N2849A than $55,000 (net) raised for the FSF Unfortunately we still have about 20 per- N2849A [email protected]@[email protected]@basinc-aeromod.com that evening through a silent auction, a cent of our members who have not pro- live one and just plain donations. vided us with an email address or even BAS INC AIRCRAFT SAFETY HARNESSES AND ACCESSORIES The goal was to raise awareness on the a phone number. Your email address is need for safety and to help COPA keep strictly used by us and not sold, shared ourselves and our skies safe: to continue or distributed, so privacy is assured. You the important work of safety promo- also get advised of special issues that tion and education throughout Canada’s might come up or to simply be informed. general aviation community and to pro- Please help us help you by providing vide training, education and scholarship us your email address and the most in- opportunities along with our sister asso- formation you can. Visit copanational.org/ ciations across this country. By keeping en/member-my-profile/ or call us at 613- ourselves safer and practising our pas- 236-4901 if you have issues logging in. Im- sion safely, it means we are less likely to mediately below your profile, you will also have extra regulations put into place, so find copanational.org/en/member-com- it also preserves our freedom to fly. munications-preferences/ that will allow I wish to thank everyone who partici- you to decide what type of information pated, our partners and sponsors, but you wish to receive, and to choose your especially those who believed in this preferred correspondence language. www.basinc-aeromod.com 4 COPA FLIGHT | NOVEMBER 2019 LE MOT DU PRÉSIDENT BERNARD GERVAIS GALA LIFT SÉCURITÉ DES PILOTES ET COMMUNICATIONS AVEC LES MEMBRES LIFT — GALA DE LA ont soutenus dans notre désir d’être les FONDATION POUR LA leaders pour la sécurité en aviation gé- SÉCURITÉ AÉRIENNE nérale GA, pour faire une différence. L e 3 octobre dernier avait lieu notre tout premier gala pour la Fondation VITEssE DE MAnœuvrABILITÉ pour la sécurité aérienne (FSA) ap- Un fan de sécurité que nous supportons, pelé LIFT.