AVIATEUR EXPRESS  #872  - March 2nd  2022

IN THIS EDITION :

  • The Canadian Red Cross Relief Fund for Ukraine
  • Reunion dinner, Saturday, June 4, 2022
  • Return to flying. Are you ready ?
  • 32nd RVA Chez Mo/32nd Mo's Fly-In
  • Training session, Sherbrooke March 20, 2022
  • A "light" electric seaplane in Quebec
  • Do you know our Documentation Center?
  • Renewal of medical certificates
  • Your virtual library.
  • Photo Contest 2020-21

The Canadian Red Cross Relief Fund for Ukraine

Aviateurs.Québec made a donation to the Canadian Red Cross. We also invite you to contribute and thus demonstrate your support for this unprecedented crisis.

To make a donation, click HERE

Reunion dinner, Saturday, June 4, 2022

Make an X on your calendar and reserve June 4, 2022 for a return of our annual dinner.

Yes, we are planning to hold a reunion dinner at the Cabane à sucre D'Amours, in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines. What a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with your friends after this long period of seclusion! So save yourself this date for an unforgettable evening.

Details to come in our next publications.

Return to flying. Are you ready ?

With the return of spring, your plane is about to come out of hibernation and you, as a pilot, are back on the yoke. Are you ready ? And what about your plane?

Here is a typical situation that requires reflection: In the event of an engine failure on takeoff, should you turn around and return to land on the runway?

We cover this eventuality and many others in a video training, approved by Transport Canada, which covers the return to flight after this period of inactivity.

Its objective is to bring you back safely into the air after this long winter period and for some, abstinence. Whether it is to comply with the regulations (RAC 401.05 - knowledge update) or to take care of your skills as a pilot, we recommend that you watch this training.

Topics covered are:

  1. What is the condition of your aircraft?
  2. Are you ready as a pilot?
  3. What is the state of your technical preparation?
  4. Planning and managing your flight.
  5. Piloting defensively "Threat management"

This training is available HERE

RVA Chez Mo/Mo's Fly-In

After a waltz of hesitation concerning the possibility or not of clearing a runway for planes on wheels, the decision was made to go back to what Maurice Prud'homme announced this fall: no runway and therefore RVA for planes on skis or for helicopters.

Moreover, friend Maurice had announced that the whole organization was becoming too heavy for him and that he would not be serving his no less famous chili. And to top it off, we were told last week that Maurice could not be there being hospitalized.

It is therefore in a particular context that the preparation of this 32nd RVA was nevertheless prepared by his friends, including Richard Raymond and Louis Dufresne of the Club COPA 169, Pontiac and a few others.

Last minute surprise, Maurice received a "special" leave allowing him to attend "his" RVA, to the delight of everyone and that of Maurice obviously.

According to Patrick Vergobbi's count, 10 planes and two helicopters landed on the snow, but Mckay and Kawartha roads in Luskville also served as parking places for many other visitors.

What smiles! And it's easy to understand, because for some, it was a return to a winter RVA after a two-year wait.

To see photos of Jean-Pierre Bonin, click HERE

and those of Patrick "Pique-Nuage" Vergobbi HERE

Training session, Sherbrooke March 20, 2022

RECENCY TRAINING ON RISK MANAGEMENT DURING THE APPROACH AND LANDING PHASE

The topics covered will be:

  • Entry into the airport environment
  • Stabilized approach
  • Loss of Control in flight (LOC-I)
  • Landing Transition
  • Go-around
  • Loss of control on the ground — Loss of Control – On Ground (LOC-G)
  • Study of an accident case in Approach and Landing (TSB report)

Your instructor: André Marchesseault from the Paquin Aviation flight school

Location: Sherbrooke Golf Club, 1000 Rue Musset, Sherbrooke, QC J1J 3X4

This training session complies with the requirements of CAR 401.05.

To register, click HERE .

You do not need to re-register if you have already done so for the original January 16 session which had to be cancelled. However, we will ask you by personalized email to confirm your participation.

This event is free for members of Aviateurs.Québec and $45 for non-members. The regular cost of joining Aviateurs.Québec is $75, but if you also join an affiliated association such as the CAES de Sherbrooke then a discount of $20 on joining Aviateurs.Québec.

To become a member of Aviateurs.Québec, click HERE

A "light" electric seaplane in Quebec

"Those who think it's impossible are asked not to disturb those who try"

Until Sunday March 6, you can meet the promoters of a somewhat crazy project: to fly an all-electric light seaplane. BushCaddy R-120.

As I know that Pierre Harvey, the editor of Aviation magazine, passed before me and that Richard Saint-Georges will no doubt write about this project, I'm not going to pull the rug out from under them. In the meantime, to find out a little more, read this article in La Presse

To see the current project with your own eyes and discuss with the promoters at Mail Montenach in Beloeil, you must make an appointment. You have until March 6. Make an appointment HERE

A proposal by Jean-Pierre Bonin

Do you know our Documentation Center?

The Documentation Center is your virtual library where you will find several sections including:

  • The Training section gives you access to tutorials on topics like Foreflight, copy of aviation safety seminars and privileged access to online training courses that are accredited as a knowledge update by Transport Canada.
  • A virtual library of documents from Transports. Canada and Nav Canada
  • A section dedicated to aviation safety.
  • Documentation that could be useful to you as a pilot.
  • Portraits of airmen/airwomen from Quebec.

Take a tour by clicking HERE

Renewal of category 4 medical certificates

A reminder on the procedure to follow.

Physical and mental fitness for a Category 4 medical certificate is established by completing Form No. 26-0297, Medical Declaration for Licenses and Permits Requiring a Category 4 Medical Standard. A reminder that in order to be eligible for a category 4 medical certificate, you must not have any medical conditions that are listed on this form.

This document (26-0297) is available HERE . 

It is recommended that pilots submit a request for a Category 4 Medical Certificate by email to their appropriate Regional Service Center whose email addresses can be found by clicking HERE .

Medical statements should be sent to the regional service center and not to Civil Aviation Medicine to avoid unnecessary delays. Transport Canada agrees to respond within 60 days of receiving the request.

The age of the applicant and the type of permit or license applied for determine the frequency of medical examinations necessary to meet physical and mental fitness requirements. The period of validity of a medical certificate is calculated from the first day of the month following the date of the medical examination or the medical statement.

We also learned from Transport Canada that the 90-day exemptions for logbook signatures will be renewed in January 2022. So don't worry, your logbook is still valid even if you haven't received the label.
Similarly, those who have a card that expires, the exemptions will be renewed as well. Transport Canada should decide on the new timelines shortly.

Your virtual library

Here are links that will take you to the latest editions of these publications.

Click on the title of the publication to view and download it:

Photo Contest 2022 

The 2021 competition is now a thing of the past. The winning photos will be announced in the March/April 2022 issue of L'Aviateur magazine.

And the 2022 contest is back! 

You can now send us photos by writing to us at photos@aviateurs.quebec

You have until March 31 at 10 p.m. to send us your photos.

On the subject of photo resolution… most “smart” phones take photos in acceptable resolution and even “high” resolution. But often, the email software used is set to send only low resolution previews. This can be corrected by the user… You can also go through a manipulation by copying the photo and pasting it into the message. It is also possible to use WeTransfer, MailDrop from Apple, Google Drive in Gmail or OneDrive from Microsoft.

THE IMPORTANT is:

  • Give a TITLE to the photo
  • Give the full NAME of the PHOTOGRAPHER
  • Give YOUR full NAME
  • Give your member NUMBER (IN RULE).

For the rest, we will consider that you have read and accepted the rules when you participate...

Contest rules are HERE

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