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The Patrician

Victoria Flying Club ww.flyfvc.com

March 2011

From the rear seat of a CJ-6 Nanchang

The Patrician Monthly newsletter of the Victoria Flying Club

March 2011

The Victoria Flying Club est. 1946

In this issue: 3 Kona, Hawaii—Al Johnston

“To promote flying and aviation in general, and to teach and train persons in the art and science of flying and navigating and operating all manner of heavier-than-air aircraft.”

(Victoria Flying Club Incorporation Bylaws, 1946)

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10-11 PPL/CPL/Mountain Groundschool Schedules

Board of Directors

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President………………………………….….Lloyd Toope Vice President…………………………..Colin Dormuth Treasurer……………………………………….Ellen Wood Secretary……………………………………….Rob Shemilt Directors………………………………………..Sean Steele Colin Williamson Don Devenney Steve Demy General Manager………………………….Gerry Mants Chief Flying Instructor……………..Graham Palmer

2010 Tax Forms Editor/Publisher: Christie Hall thepatrician@shaw.ca Midnight Design and Communication midnightdc@shaw.ca

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Notice of the

Annual General Meeting of the

Victoria Flying Club March 3rd, 2011 6:00 - wine and cheese 7:00 - meeting meeting to take place in the vFc member’s lounge

Tax Time!

On page 12 and 13 of this issue, you’ll find the Victoria Flying Club 2010 Income Tax Procedure form. If you are wanting to claim your flight training, please fill in your information and drop the form off at the VFC office no later than February 15th.

PLEASE NOTE: In order to claim your Pilot Private License training for the previous tax year, you must be enrolled in Commercial Pilot training.

Letters and feedback are always welcome!

Thank you for the update on Tracy Biddle as she was my very first flight instructor. Imagine that, oodles of hours, ATPL license, new career on the horizon and she gets stuck with a young pimpled faced 16-year old as her last assignment. While it would only be a month until she left the club, I’m thankful for everything she showed me in that short period of time.

Brush up with an annual David Hosick VFC on Twitter check-ride http://twitter.com/#!/FlyVFC

The benefits of membership in the Victoria Flying Club include an annual check-ride. Once a year, you can fly with one of VFC’s Qualified Flight Instructors to brush up on your flying skills. You pay the plane rental fee, and the instructor is included at no charge for up to two hours.

The annual check-ride is a great way to stay safe heading into the busy spring and summer flying season. Book yours today!

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On a recent visit to Kona, Hawaii, I rented a 172 from the local flying school, Tropic Bird. http:// www.airnav.com/airport/PHKO/TROPICBIRD A real treat, it was a new 172SP with the Garmin1000 panel and every possible option Cessna had. Along with CFI Jon Dabel, I undertook the “island flying course”, which is a brief introduction to the Kona airspace combined with an aerial tour.

There was a short wait for the 11,000 ft runway as the US Air Force was doing touch and goes with a P3 Orion and a KC130 tanker, allowing only a small take off window for avoidance of wake turbulence. We climbed up to 6500 feet to skirt clouds around the base of Maua Kea; my attention was divided between the scenery and finding my way around the G1000 panel. We descended over the cloud down to 1500ft on the east side of Hawaii, and followed the coast line below the cloud deck around to the sunnier west side, then back to Kona for a respectable landing.

Of interest, there is no 100LL fuel in the Hawaiian Islands. There is a large underwater fuel storage tank at Honolulu, which holds only 100/130 grade. Apparently it cannot be flushed out to accommodate different fuel, so green gas it is. This fuel is made on the mainland, shipped to Honolulu then barged and trucked to the outlying islands. Probably explains some of the cost of renting a plane. I won’t be complaining about VFC rates for a while!

Alan Johnston

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To Identify the aircraft above, please email: thepatrician@shaw.ca

Last Month’s Mystery

The Grumman Tigercat fighter twin saw service post -WWII. Max speed is 400 kts on a pair if 2100 hp engines.

Roughly 250 built but service life was short when replaced by jets. The few that escaped scrapping became retardant bombers until rescued by warbird collectors.

Correctly identified by: Daryl Williams Colin Williamson Tim Hamblin Phil D’Angelo Wayne Clifton

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New Members

Achievements First Solo

Nima Haydar-Alaghband

Scott Bell

Brandon Schwazer

Skyler Plotnikoff

Joel Truscott

Robert Stewart

Stephen Synnuck Michael Bahrey

PPL Written

Robert Killin

Naoyuki Takai

Matthew Pope

RPP Flight Test

Brenda Vanderheyden

Mike Redgrave

Thomas Green Tim Silvester

CPL Written

Sumit Kumar

Danielle Pomeroy

Allan Rempel Derek Doerksen

CPL Flight Test

Bill Harkley

Kevin Melling Anayas Rai

Welcome to the

CPL Licence

Victoria Flying Club!

Anayas Rai Class IV Written Lars Erik Brown ATPL Simon Dennis 6

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Training at Tutima Academy of Aviation Safety By: Sam Roland I open my eyes.

I open my eyes and what do I see?

I open my eyes and I see the world spinning beneath me.

I know what I do is not for the faint of heart. In fact, I am the only one my age in the northwest of North America that I know of. I am definitely the only one of any age bracket on Vancouver Island. High performance aerobatics is a calling for me but...

I open my eyes and I see the world spinning beneath me but upside down. I struggle to detect the direction of yaw as the world spins by in an incredible blur. I feel pain at my hips as my harness strains to keep me in the airplane. I am in a Pitts aerobatic biplane in an 3g inverted spin hurtling towards the Earth. I initiate the recovery: power to idle, ailerons to neutral, full opposite rudder. As the rotation slows I punch neutral elevator to break the stall. Now that I am out of the spin, I immediately hammer the throttle to full power and pull on the stick until I feel the aircraft buffet due to a near stall. I pull all the way up to the Vx climb attitude, and my instructor and I climb out of the end of my spin training course at over 2000 feet per minute. Mission accomplished – I have recovered from an inverted accelerated flat spin that my instructor put us into while my eyes were closed.

I want to make a point with this article. We aerobatic pilots take safety very seriously. We never, ever, perform aerobatics in a Cessna 152, 172, or any other airplane that is not built for it. If the Pilot’s Operating Handbook does not say it’s Kosher – we do not do it.

There may be pilots who call themselves aerobatic pilots, but if they’re breaking the Canadian Aviation Regulations regarding aerobatics they are flying recklessly and giving aerobatics a bad image. Flying a C172 through a reverse half Cuban eight or hammerhead is outright dangerous. Low level aerobatics is even more dangerous. An aerobatic pilot is a very disciplined and safety conscious individual who enjoys exploring the third dimension.

He or she enjoys exploring the limits of his or her own capabilities along with respecting the limits of the airplane. If you come across or hear a story about a pilot performing negligent or reckless aerobatics please do not lump the pilot into the “foolhardy aerobatic category.” Instead, simply label him as a reckless pilot.

I can now literally find myself in any spin and recover within seconds.

I have spent the last five days in King City, California, a three hour drive south of San Francisco where the hills are rolling green and the air is warm blue. I have just finished the Advanced Aerobatic Proficiency Course at Sean Tucker’s school, the Tutima Academy of Aviation Safety. I have learned to land the Pitts S-2C biplane. I have learned an exorbitant number of aerobatic maneuvers: tail slides, torque rolls, outside rolling turns, lomcevaks… the list goes on. But most importantly, I have increased my confidence in my ability to handle aircraft by leaps and bounds. As long as I do not over speed or over-stress an airplane, I will always be able to recover the airplane from any unusual attitude and land safely back home (provided I gave myself ample altitude, of course).

True aerobatic pilots are disciplined individuals who value safety first, before all else.

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(Photo: Sam and the Pitts S-2C) Sam Roland is a competition aerobatic pilot who started flying contests six years ago with the Victoria Flying Club’s Citabria “C-GJTM”. After the Citrabria was sold, Sam travelled to the mainland to continue his training. Now proficient in Sportsman aerobatics, Sam has competed in nearly every competition on the west coast from Canada to Southern California. Sam could not have accomplished all that he has without the stellar mentorship and assistance provided by a few special members of the aerobatic community. Sam is always eager to share his passion for aerobatics. Please feel welcome to contact him at samuel.roland@gmail.com on any topic related to aerobatics and he’ll be more than happy to talk with you.

Open 8am4pm M-F 8am-2:30pm Weekends

*Colin Williamson and Sam are planning an aerobatic get together for a Saturday in mid-April. Come out and meet fellow pilots and learn about aerobatics! An Extra 300 or Pitts S-2C biplane from the mainland will be there! Check April Patrician or contact Sam for the exact date and details.

Located at the Victoria Flying Club

Join us for breakfast or lunch...inside or patio

101—1852 Canso Rd

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Images courtesy of: Allen Lynch

Skyler Plotnikoff Instructor: Dirk Pritchard

Scott Bell Instructor: Dirk Pritchard

“Without disruption of air traffic, these fearless, forthright, indomitable and courageous individuals did venture into the wild blue yonder in flying machines. Furthermore, these skilful individuals did safely land said flying machines at Victoria International Airport, incurring no significant damage to self or machine, thus completing first solo flights.�

Robert Stewart Instructor: Dirk Pritchard

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Date

Monday and Wednesday Evenings 1900—2200 Topic Instructor

Mar 02

Meteorology

Simon Dennis

07

Meteorology

Simon Dennis

09

Meteorology

Simon Dennis

14

Meteorology

Simon Dennis

16

Meteorology

Simon Dennis

21

Human Factors and Pilot Decision Making

Brad Fraser

23

Flight Operations

Yasuhiro Koide

28

Flight Operations

Yasuhiro Koide

30

Navigation

Jeff Lightheart

Apr 04

Navigation

Jeff Lightheart

06

Navigation

Jeff Lightheart

11

Radio and Electronic Theory

Dave Kupchenko

13

Review (Witten Exam Seminar)

John McConnichie

18

Review

Brad Fraser

To sign up for Groundschool, or to purchase your Groundschool Kit, please contact the Victoria Flying Club Office at 250-656-2833.

The

Victoria Flying Club is very excited to partner with Thrifty Foods in their successful Smile Card program. Pick up your smile card today at the VFC office, and 5% of your grocery purchases will go towards creating scholarships and awards for VFC members.

Thank-you to Thrifty Foods for their support!

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March 25-April 17, 2011 Date

Topic

Instructor

Mar 25

1700-2100

Radio and Electronic Theory

Dave/Dirk

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0830-1700

Licencing Requirements/CARS

Koide/Kristen

27

0830-1700

Theory of Flight and Aerodynamics

Koide

Apr 01

1700-2100

Airframes and Engines

Dave/Sean

02

0830-1230

Systems and Flight Instruments

Dave/Sean

02

1300-1700

Human Factors/Pilot Decision Making

Brad/Dirk

03

0830-1700

Crew Resource Management

Brad/Dirk

08

1700-2100

Flight Operations

Jeff

09

0830-1700

Navigation

Jeff

10

0830-1230

Navigation

Jeff

10

1300-1700

GPS

Graham

15

1700-2100

Meteorology

Simon

16

0830-1700

Meteorology

Simon

17

0830-1700

Meteorology

Simon

To sign up for Groundschool, or to purchase your Groundschool Kit, please contact the Victoria Flying Club Office at 250-656-2833.

Mountain Flying Seminar Tuesday March 15 at the Victoria Flying Club 0900-1300 $75 Please call the Victoria Flying Club at 250-656-2833 to sign up.

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Please print, fill out, and return the following two pages to the Victoria Flying Club office .

Victoria Flying Club 2010 Income Tax Procedure Please Note: Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) has recently been requiring proof of enrollment in the Commercial Pilot Program before allowing a deduction for the hours under the Private Pilot Licence. A letter from the Club confirming enrollment in the CPL is available to students actively pursuing a CPL (i.e, a Category 1 Medical, enrollment in Commercial Ground school, working towards a Night Rating or actively completing the dual requirements of the CPL). Members are reminded that all deductions taken are the responsibility of the person claiming the deduction on their tax return.

Instructions: Complete all areas of this form. There is no need to complete the form if you reached the maximum hours per course in 2009. Mail/fax/or drop off this form to Dispatch.

Allowable deductions:

As outlined by Revenue Canada Taxation 875 Heron Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L8

Licence or Endorsement: Private Pilot Licence Commercial Pilot Licence Instructor’s Rating Night Rating

Allowable Tuition Fees (Please read carefully): Private Pilot Course Any number of dual flying hours. Solo hours to the extent that dual and solo hours do not exceed a total of forty-five hours.

Revenue Canada has been requiring proof of enrollment in the Commercial Pilot Licence program prior to allowing a deduction for the PPL. (See above) Commercial Pilot Course Any number of dual flying hours and solo hours to the extent that dual and solo hours do not exceed a total of sixty-five hours (Commercial Licence).

NO CREDIT MAY BE TAKEN FOR TIME BUILDING OR HOURS IN EXCESS OF THE TRANSPORT CANADA MINIMUMS. Private Pilot Course Only Ground school Jan 1 to December 31, 2010

$250.00

$___________

________hours dual Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2010 ________hours solo Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2010 ________hours dual and solo claimed in 2009 and earlier re private licence ________TOTAL CLAIM in hours (CANNOT EXCEED 45 HOURS)

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Commercial Pilot Course Ground school Jan 1 to December 31, 2010

$495.00

$___________

Ground school Retread

$ 50.00

$___________

________hours dual Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2010 ________hours solo Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2010 ________hours dual and solo claimed in 2009 and earlier re commercial licence ________TOTAL CLAIM in hours (CANNOT EXCEED 65 HOURS)

Other Ratings Rating:______________________ Hours: Dual____________ Solo___________

To Be Completed By The Student I, _________________________ certify that: I intend to work in the occupation of _______________________and that I was enrolled in the course entitled ______________________in order to furnish me with skills in that occupation OR I am qualified as a ___________________________ and that I was enrolled in the course entitled ___________________________ in order to improve my skills in that occupation.

My hours claimed for 2010, when combined with hours claimed in 2009 and earlier does not exceed the maximums outlined of 45 hours for private and 65 hours for commercial course. __________________________ Signature of Student

____________________________ Date

Do you wish your tax form mailed or picked up?______________________________

For Office Use Only Date received ____________________ Course _____________________________ Hours:

_____________

Dual $_________________

_____________

Solo

Ground Briefing: _____________ Ground school:

$_________________

Dual $_________________ $_________________

Total Hours Claimed: ____________Private _____________

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Sunday, May 1 (rain date May 15), Pitt Meadows, BC (CYPK): 99s Poker Run. Rescheduled from Fall of 2010.

Open to all pilots. Everyone welcome.

Abbotsford, Boundary Bay, Chilliwack, Delta Airpark, Langley, Squamish, Victoria, Pitt Meadows

Lots of fun & prizes Funds raised go towards aviation scholarships & projects.

For more information: www.bccoast99s.com, or call Raeleen at 604-837-4148.

Lindair Services Ltd Specializing in Cessna, Piper, Beaver float and wheel-equipped aircraft.

A high-quality Service Department that is ready to complete any inspection or repair requirement you may have.

5180 Airport Road South, Richmond, BC Tel: 1-800-663-5829 Fax: 1-800-667-5643

www.lindairservices.com

There’s always lots happening the world of aviation on Vancouver Island and in BC. Rent a plane, gather your friends, and go join the adventure!

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Aircraft - Accommodation - Aviation Books and Gear - Help Wanted - Miscellaneous To meet the deadline for next month’s issue, email your FREE ad by the 15th of each month to: thepatrician@shaw.ca

1980 Cessna 172N 1/4 share CYYJ TTSN 1735 160hp H2AD all AD's done. VFR, dual nav/com, ils, 7" colour screen moving map gps, adf. Hangared at Viscount. Incorporated.

1/4 share $19,000.

1/3 share $25,000. whm@shaw.ca

The Patrician is always looking for articles, stories, and photos that would be of interest to the members of the Victoria Flying Club. If you have something to contribute, please email: thepatrician@shaw.ca as soon as possible to get in the next issue.

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