AVIATEUR EXPRESS #946 - January 8, 2025

Photos submitted to the 2024 Photo Contest will be  presented to an external jury to determine the three winners of the Photo Contest Trophies. They will also be eligible for the year-end drawing for ten prizes from ALL photos received.

To see all the photos from the 2024 Photo Contest

We are relaunching the contest for 2025. You too could have your photo put in the banner of our newsletter and our Facebook page. To send us your photos, write to us at photos@aviateurs.quebec

Check out the details of this competition

IN THIS EDITION:

  • Gilles Lapierre, a great figure in the history of Aviateurs.Québec, leaves us at the age of 80
  • All-You-Can-Eat Lobster Benefit Dinner: Don’t miss this superb event.
  • Aviateurs.Quebec Insurance Plan
  • Recency training session: Mirabel, January 25, 2025
  • Recency training session: Sherbrooke, January 19, 2025
  • Annual General Meeting: April 26, 2025
  • Underwater egress training
  • Transport Canada: Aviation Safety Letter, Edition 4/2025
  • Pilotes de brousse : La réalité des pilotes d'Air Tunilik Pilots
  • Nav Canada: modification to Mirabel airspace
  • The 1st RVA 2025: Sainte-Anne du Lac , February 22, 2025
  • News from one of our partners: Bel-Air Aviation
  • The St-Exupéry film in theaters soon
  • Richard Saint-George's book now available in Quebec
  • The forum pilotes.quebec is online and waiting for you
  • NAV Canada: tutorials to tame CFPS
  • Your virtual library

Transport Canada has posted their latest issue of Aviation Safety Letter.

You can download it by clicking on the following link:

Aviation Safety - News, issue 4/2024

News from one of our partners: Bel-Air Aviation

NAV Canada: Some tutorials on the AWWS platform

To help you get to grips with this new platform, NAV Canada has posted a few videos that guide you through using CFPS.

How to use CFPS

How to query the CFPS

AIR.tv season 3 on YouTube

Your photo:
If possible in high definition. Minimum format: 1024 pixels in its largest dimension. Required information:

  • LOCATION where the photo was taken
  • The NAME of the PHOTOGRAPHER
  • YOUR FULL NAME (please note that only members in good standing can participate)
  • You have read and accept the complete regulations available on the Aviateurs.Québec website by clicking HERE

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Submit your photo to photos@aviateurs.quebec

The photo used as a banner will be chosen by the person(s) administering the competition.

For subsequent editions of the newsletter, the photo chosen will be from all the photos received since the beginning of the current year. At the end of the year, the photos (maximum 26) that have been chosen in the banner will be submitted to an external jury to determine the three winning photographers.

First prize: $150 gift certificate + trophy
Second prize: $100 gift certificate + trophy
Third prize: $50 gift certificate + trophy

10 other winners will be determined by random draw among ALL photographers who participated during the year: $55 credit applicable against a membership renewal or a purchase in the Aviateurs.Québec store at the winner's choice.

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"To bring together and represent Quebec aviators in order to promote general aviation and flight safety, to promote accessibility and protect the right to it, to facilitate exchanges between members and provide access to assistance, training and information resources."

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