Education
15 Ottawa This Week - Nepean - OCTOBER 20, 2011
NEVIL HUNT nevil.hunt@metroland.com
Bradley Dolynuk looks dashing in his pilot’s shirt, gold braid on his shoulders and tie neatly knotted. Ottawa’s skyline spreads out below as he holds the yoke and keeps his feet on the pedals. Dolynuk watches as lightning flashes outside the cockpit and his Cessna is tossed up, down and side to side like a small boat licked by heavy seas. The storm gets worse and the accessibility of air sickness bags come to mind, so Frank Brzobohaty suggests that Dolynuk change course to 180 degrees. As the plane begins to bank to safety, Brzobohaty presses a magic button and as quickly as it appeared the thunderstorm turns into clear blue skies. The simulation comes to an end. Dolynuk isn’t a pilot just yet. He’s in his first weeks of a new professional pilot flight training program offered through Algonquin College. Brzobohaty is chief flight instructor at
Ottawa Aviation Services (OAS), which has offices – and its intriguing flight simulator – near the Ottawa airport. If you have $500,000 to spare, you can own a flight simulator like the OAS model. The made-in-Montreal equipment has two seats, all the controls of a real plane and windows that look onto a wrap-around screen the pilots can see in front of them and through the side windows. The view changes with every touch of the simulator’s controls. Like an Imax movie, the effect can be unsettlingly real. Brzobohaty sits behind the pilot and co-pilot seats at a computer console, playing God. During each student’s flight he manages their experience with the simulator’s software package. Maybe it will rain. Brzobohaty can whip up fog, clouds or crosswinds with a tap on his keyboard, and if that’s not enough to frazzle you, he can call up a 747 and send it straight at your head. Before Dolynuk finishes his flight, Brzobohaty turns day to night in an instant, and the headlights of cars on
Highway 417 twinkle in the distance. He can also play with time, rewinding a scenario or replaying a flight so students can learn from mistakes. Maybe Brzobohaty is enjoying this chance to show off the simulator a little too much. In addition to controlling the time and the weather, he can sabotage the plane itself. FLIGHT SCHOOL, see 16
A special fundraising event took place at Lynwood Park Lodge in Bell’s Corners on Saturday, October 8th. Lynwood Lodge Retirement Residence, as part of Community Lifecare Inc., hosted a Traditional Country Fair Day, raising money for the Literacy Program at Bells Corners Public School. Residents and staff welcomed the community to the festivities. They enjoyed good old fashion fun, while supporting our future leaders. Special thank you to our sponsors, Canadian Tire, (Bells Corners, Mr. Jordan) City of Ottawa, (Goulbourn location) many high school volunteer students, Shoppers Drug Mart, (Bells Corners, Petre Berario) Mr. Utman with his antique car, Bytown fire brigade and Metroland Media.
On Monday October 17th a cheque was presented to the Bells Corners Public School, on Richmond Rd. For more information, please contact Jennifer Hess at 613-596-6969 or email at jhess@clmi.ca
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Bradley Dolynuk keeps things on the level as he looks out on the night sky above Ottawa while piloting a flight simulator at Ottawa Aviation Services. The Canadianmade equipment is used by Algonquin College students in the new professional pilot flight training program. The 18-month course is designed to get graduates jobs right out of school.
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