AVIATEUR EXPRESS # 863 - November 24, 2021 | IN THIS EDITION : - Aviation Safety - Aircraft icing
- Recency training (RAC 401.05) - Vol en hiver
- News from Transport Canada on the renewal of medical certificates
- How to preserve your engine
- Flying to extremes
- Saint-Georges airport: an essential service unknown to the general public
- Recency training, Neuville
- Your virtual library.
- Photo competition 2020-21
| Aviation Safety - Aircraft icing | It only takes a very small amount of roughness, caused by a layer of ice, snow or frost as thin as 0.40 mm (1/64 inch), to disrupt the air flow on the airfoils and control surfaces of an aircraft. The consequences of this roughness can be a serious loss of lift, an increase in drag and maneuvering difficulties, particularly during the take-off and initial climb phases of the flight. Ice can also prevent the movement of the control surfaces or significantly increase the weight of the aircraft, not to mention that it may obstruct probes essential to piloting. The presence of ice should always be taken seriously, regardless of the amount involved . For more, click HERE | Recency training - Vol en hiver | We are pleased to announce that the training session Vol en hiver is available on the AVPBOX platform . Viewing this video will qualify you for a knowledge update in accordance with CAR 401.05. You are compliant, but still anxious to maintain your level of competence, we invite you to take this training. To access this training, click HERE Photo: Jean-Pierre Bonin | News from Transport Canada on the renewal of Category 4 medical certificates | Transport Canada announces a change in the procedure for requesting or updating a Category 4 medical certificate. Essentially, the change clarifies that the offices responsible for administering these requests are the regional offices and not the national office. This change is currently in effect and will be published in the Aeronautical Information Manual the next time it is published on March 22, 2022. Here is the text explaining the procedure to be followed. 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 to be able to take advantage of 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 Category 4 medical certificate request by email to their appropriate regional service center whose email addresses can be found by clicking HERE . Medical reports should be sent to the regional service center and not to Civil Aviation Medicine to avoid unnecessary delays. Transport Canada undertakes to respond within 60 days of receiving the request. The age of the applicant and the type of permit or license applied for determines 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 medical declaration. We also learned from Transport Canada that the 90-day exemptions for logbook signatures will be extended in January 2022. So, no worries, your logbook is still valid even if you haven't received the logbook. label.
Likewise, those who have a carnet that expires, the exemptions will be renewed as well. Transport Canada is expected to rule on the new deadlines shortly. For your information, here is the text that will be published in the Aeronautical Information Manual in March 2022 LRA 1.9.3 Physical and mental fitness - Renewal of a category 4 medical certificate A pilot wishing to maintain a Category 4 Medical Certificate shall complete Form 26-0297, Medical Declaration for Licences and Permits Requiring a Category 4 Medical Standard, at least 60 days before the expiry date of their medical certificate. This will allow TC licensing personnel enough time to issue a new Category 4 Medical Certificate before the original medical certificate expires. It is recommended that pilots applying for a Category 4 Medical Certificate do so by e-mail to their appropriate regional service centre. E-mail addresses can be found HERE. Medical declarations should be sent to the regional service centre and not Civil Aviation Medicine to avoid unnecessary delays. | How to preserve your engine | Why limit as much as possible the fixed points on the ground or the taxiing on the ground? As you all know, piston engines burn a mixture of air and gasoline. This operation causes the explosion which causes the pistons to come to life. But we also get combustion residues. By force of circumstances, these combustion residues end up in the oil. In fact, deep in the engine is oil, residue, acid and water. " Water? Anything ! Some voices will cry out. To be able to be convinced of the presence of water in our oil sumps, it is enough to remember a few principles of elementary physics. Hot humid air meeting a sudden drop in temperature will condense into fine droplets. A hot engine, when the richness lever is pulled to suffocate it, contains humid air (like the ambient air). The engine cools, air at room temperature enters the engine and cylinders, CQFD. Each time the engine is stopped, a certain quantity of water is "created" which cannot escape from the crankcase. The water naturally goes directly to the bottom of the sump. Those who are still in doubt can pour a little cooking oil into a glass and then a few drops of water. The result is obvious. For more, click HERE Source: Aviation and pilot | A true modern-day adventurer, Dominique Prinet has published the story of some of his adventures under the title 'Flying to Extremes' published by Hancock House . Unfortunately, this book is only available in English, but we saw fit that it might be of interest to some of you. You can order it HERE Dominique Prinet was a bush and tundra pilot in the Far North and in the Arctic in the sixties and seventies. Describing some of the most memorable adventures - and misadventures - led in the Canadian Arctic with bush planes, Flying to Extremes covers the era of the late 1960s and early 1970s from base to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Writing with clarity, humor and precision, Prinet takes us to a world of endless snow and ice and gloomy gray winter days on a sparsely populated tundra. Stories range from flying in bad weather, his single-engine plane icing up and sinking, as Prinet wonders if he should tell the sport fishermen sleeping in the cabin amid boxes of fish and fishing gear that they are on. about to crash - maybe not! Or as he rescues his fiancée from their plane that sinks into the ice, he meets a native trapper who drove his dog sled through the bush to find out why a plane had landed, but had not taken off. Other adventures range from the near sinking of his Cessna 185 along the Arctic coast to a flight of Beyond the many near misses, this book also deals with people; the trappers, prospectors, miners, adventurers, and gold bullion thieves who were the wildlife of Yellowknife's main bar at the time. And, for those who wish to dream, there is always the flight to the Nahanni River, with its Deadman Valley, the hot springs, the lost or dead prospectors, the numerous plane crashes in search of gold, and all the affiliated Nahanni tradition. This entertaining book provides a summary of Prinet's adventures and captures some of the humor, surprises, danger and history of northern communities, in the ever-changing landscape of the Canadian Arctic. Readers familiar with the region will no doubt find this title both nostalgic and captivating to read. Listen to an interview with Dominique Prinet on Radio-Canada (Ohdio) by clicking HERE . Photo: Hancock House | Saint-Georges airport: an essential service unknown to the general public | Aviation has played an important role in the development of southern Beauce. Saint-Georges airport is witness to this development, certain facts of which remain unknown to the population. Here is an article published in the local newspaper L'Éclaireur Progrès on October 27, which describes the development of this airport. To view this article, click HERE Photo: Hugues Drouin | Recency training, Neuville aerodrome, November 21 | We are happy to have been able to return to face-to-face training session. Last Sunday, Aviateurs.Québec in collaboration with the Club aéronautique de Neuville presented training session. Nearly thirty pilots responded to the invitation. We were present with the participation of Michel Chartier, president and Sophie Dufresne, VP member services. A first for us, we recorded the training. Sylvain Dubé, a member of Aviateurs.Québec, operated the cameras. Our goal is to be able to offer this training offline on the AVPBOX platform . We would like to thank Patsy McGrath, president of the Club aéronautique de Neuville , René Boisvert, iFly College instructor as well as Sylvain Dubé for their invaluable collaboration in the organization and running of this event. Photo : Sophie Dufresne | Here are links that will take you to the latest editions of some publications. Click on the title of the publication to view and download it: | Aviateurs.Québec Photo Contest 2021 | Congratulations to Pierre-Étienne Bergeron, winner of the October round of the Aviateurs.Québec photo contest! Pierre-Étienne wins a cap or a polo shirt.The 2021 competition continues! The 2021 competition continues! Now is the time to submit a photo or two for the November 2021 round! We currently accept photos (aviation related, read regulations ). Send your photos to photos@aviateurs.quebec . before November 30 at 10 p.m. The winner will receive one of the following prizes: cap or polo shirt In order to allow everyone to have the chance to win during the year, the same person cannot be declared winner of the month more than four (4) times during the year. You also have until the same date to vote for any other photo of your choice! The winning photos of the month and the photos having had the most "likes" during the year (up to a maximum of 20 in total and coming from "active" members [membership in good standing]) will be judged subsequently for determine the three winning photos. (See text below) You can still vote for any of your favorite photos from the year 2021 by clicking "Like or love" before January 11, 2022 by going to our Facebook page The price structure: Grand annual winner: gift certificate $ 75 plus trophy
2nd and 3rd annual: gift certificate $ 25 plus trophy
Monthly winners: Cap or Polo In order to allow everyone to have the chance to win during the year, the same person cannot be declared winner of the month more than four (4) times during the year. The winning photos for each month plus the photos with the most votes during the year, up to a total of 20, will be finalists. For a monthly round to be held, you must have received at least five photos, from at least three different photographers. Otherwise, the photos received are entered in the following month's round. The complete contest rules can be viewed HERE | AVIATORS.QUÉBEC AVIATEURS.QUÉBEC IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR: "Bring together and represent the aviators of Quebec 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 resources assistance, training and information. " TO CONTACT US : CP 89022, CSP Malec, Montreal, QcH9C 2Z3 1-514-255-9998 / 1-877-317-2727 / info@aviateurs.quebec OUR SUMMER SCHEDULE: Monday to Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | | | | |
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