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THE PATRICIANDecember 2016

The Victoria Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946

First airplane lift installed, 70th Anniversary Party pics,and more!

“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)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT Ramona [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT Howard PengSECRETARY Colin WilliamsonTREASURER Vernon FischerDIRECTORS Steve Demy

Rob ShemiltRolf HopkinsonJohn Litherland

GENERAL MANAGER Gerry MantsCHIEF FLYING INSTRUCTOR

Graham Palmer

1852 Canso RoadSidney, BC V8L 5V5

[email protected]

Phone: 250-656-2833

In This Issue

2 News Around the Club

5 Social Media Picks 6 The Little Pilot Shop

7 VFC's 70th Anniversary Party

10 Guide Dogs and Service Dogs Information for the Public

11 Income Tax Forms

13 First Solos and Member Achievements

15 PrepAIR Tower Talk Contributed by Simon Dennis

17 Fly-Out Bug

18 Ground School Schedule

THE PATRICIANMonthly Newsletter of The Victoria Flying Club - Aviation Excellence Since 1946

December 2016

Editor: Katy [email protected]

The Patrician accepts unsolicited submissions.

This publication may be reproduced in whole or in part, with prior permission of the publisher or author. The opinions expressed are strictly those of the authors.

Front cover photo credits: Instagram: cadestewart. Prepping for a flight while on the VFC's ramp.

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Aviation Excellence Since 1946 2 December 2016

HOLIDAY HOURS

Although the Club will be closed December 25th, 26th, and January 1st, you can book plane rentals for those days. Arrange with Dispatch ahead of time.

FOOD BANK CHALLENGE - MISSION COMPLETE

We did it! We joined 34 other businesses in Victoria in participating in VIATEC's yearly Food Bank Challenge, with food and donations going to the Mustard Seed. In this Challenge, taking place over three and a half weeks, over $82,000 was raised by the collective group of companies! The winner of the Challenge was Carmanah Technologies (maker of solar powered taxiway lights used at airports around the world) for the highest cash and food donation. FROM THE OFFICE

Marcel Poland, Operations Manager shares the following: "We have started

a new IFR CHART/CFS PRO RATED cost program. The IFR charts have a 56 day cycle at the end of which they are no longer valid and cannot be used. We will be pro-rating the next rotation if you purchase your charts close to the end of a cycle. The first reduction will be at the halfway mark and then the three quarter mark. Pricing will be posted below the charts. This will only be for the IFR charts and the CFS. Call if you need any clarification."

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - STUDY IN BC CONTEST

If you are an international student or alumni, you are eligible to enter Study in BC's contest to win an IPad Air! Details in the image below or at studyinbc.com/contest. The contest is only open until December 21st, so get your pics in soon!

WINGS BANQUET, JANUARY 27

Mark your calendars for the next Wings Banquet, January 27, 6 pm. Tickets are

$40 per person, and graduates are free. Contact Dispatch for tickets or further details.

HANGAR PROGRESS

The first of the airplane 'hangers in the hangar' has been installed and is attracting many onlookers, eager to see it working in action. If you are interested to see your aircraft get air time in the safety of the hangar, contact Marcel Poland to get in while you can!

MEETING ROOM RESERVATIONS

Are you looking for meeting space for your own Meetup, business meeting, or party? Contact Customer Service at the Club to book your spot or connect you with the Dakota Cafe.

Have news or a story to tell? Email us at [email protected] for a chance to have your news or story published in The Patrician.

News Around the Club

VFC News

Image top: Instagram: cadestewart. Prepping for a flight on the VFC's ramp.Image bottom left: Competition open to international students at studyinbc.com/contest until Dec. 21st.Image bottom right: The first airplane lift has been installed.

December 2016 3 www.flyvfc.com

AIRCRAFT RENTAL DISCOUNT HOURS

Special holidays, e.g. Remembrance Day

Monday to Friday, 1700–0930 $10/hr rental discount, or0.2 simulator time credit per hour of flight (approximate value $20)

Saturday and Sunday, 1700–0930 $15/hr rental discount, or0.3 simulator time credit per hour of flight approximate value $30)

NEWS AND EVENTS

DEC 6 COPA Flight 6 meeting and social

DEC 25, 26 Victoria Flying Club is CLOSED

DEC 28, 29 Kids Fest 2016 at the BC Aviation Museum

JAN 1 Victoria Flying Club is CLOSED

JAN 2 New round of PPL classes starts

JAN 3 COPA Flight 6 meeting and social

JAN 27 Wings Banquet

Is your aviation-related event not listed? Let us know at [email protected].

ARE YOU A VFC ALUMNI?We would love to hear where your pilot licence has taken you! Email your story to

[email protected]

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Contact us for more [email protected]

Kids Fest 2016 December 28 & 29

11:00am to 3:00pm

If you are a young person or an adult

who is young at heart, drop by the British Columbia

Aviation Museum for some aviation-

related fun during the holidays.

Crafts

Games

Basics of Flight

Hands-on Experiences

Prizes to be won!

British Columbia Aviation Museum

1910 Norseman Road, Sidney, BC V8L 5V5

Email: [email protected] www.bcam.net

ENTRANCE BY DONATION

VFC News

LOUNGE RESERVATIONSReserve your spot early!

4 December 2016Aviation Excellence Since 1946

Women in AviationVFC News


VFC News

SocialMedia Picks

Instagram: matthewhughson. October sky

Instagram: nolnefm. Bella Coola Airport

Photo: Marcel Poland. The Club Christmas tree

Photo: Marcel Poland. Getting festive at the Club

Instagram: auderlandson. Night flying Instagram: pseudonymsierra. Night flying Instagram: thedevilstolemyprada. Prepping for takeoff

Instagram: jimmyhesketh. Looking fly Instagram: feoeduardo. VFC alumnus Eduardo Feo on the job, going through the takeoff checklist in a Citation V Instagram: daniellanewberry


VFC News

The Little Pilot Shop

While you are at the Victoria Flying Club, don't forget to take a look at our 'Little Pilot Shop.' We have warm jackets (great conversation starters!), IPad mounts, mag lights and more!


VFC News

VFC's 70th Anniversary Party


VFC News

On November 19th, around 100 people came together to celebrate the Victoria Flying Club's 70th anniversary. We enjoyed a fantastic catered meal put together by Food for Thought Catering. Afterwards we all gathered in the hangar for a paper airplane contest, won by Rodger H. Door prize winners, dessert, and dancing followed into the night!

A huge thank you to Kathy Hargreaves for all her tireless work in organizing and arranging all the fun and good eats for us. Thanks also goes to her family, Rodger, Jamie, Krista, and friend Leah, for setup, serving, and cleanup help.

Also, thanks to Brenda, Becca, Connor, Kalim, Josh, Kyle, Shelby, Justin for their assistance; Jim and Chris McNeill for sharing their gorgeous 1940 Dodge Business Coupe, Model D15; the gentlemen of the Catalina Preservation Society for bringing the Canso for photos and tours; Grant Hopkins for providing his WWII crash truck and 1942 jeep; VFC Director Rob Shemilt and Island Blue Print for printing out copies of the December 1941 edition of The Patrician; the Peninsula Panthers, ENEX Fuels, Sidney Taxi, VIP Pilot Supplies for donating door prizes; and the Dakota Cafe for their floor space.

We also wish to thank Robert Lovett for his fantastic photography. If you wish to have prints of the photos, you can contact Robert through his Facebook page www.facebook.com/Transect/ or by email at [email protected].

VFC News


VFC's 70th Anniversary Party, continued

VFC News


On January 18th, 2016, the Province implemented the new Guide Dog and Service Dog Act and Guide Dog and Service Dog Regulation.

As a service provider to the public we have an obligation to reasonably accommodate persons with disabilities. This includes visually impaired persons requiring guide dogs and persons with disabilities requiring service dogs to assist them with daily living. We are providing this information for the benefit of both our members and our staff and trust you will find it helpful.

In accommodating persons with disabilities, it is reasonable to expect that a guide or service dog be clean, well-groomed, free of offensive odours, and appear healthy. The guide or service dog should behave in an appropriate manner while on the premises. For example, the dog should not show aggression or pose risk to others or property; the dog should not solicit attention or food, run freely, urinate or defecate in inappropriate areas, disrupt business transactions, bark, or growl.

If the guide or service dog is not behaving in an appropriate manner and you are unsure if the dog is certified or trained to a high standard, you may ask to see a person’s government issued certificate or other documentation showing that the dog has been suitably trained. Guide and service dog and handler teams carrying government issued certificates will have undergone training to a high standard and are monitored and assessed.

If you have raised concerns about the behaviour of the guide or service dog with the handler and the dog continues to

misbehave, you can ask someone to remove his/her dog from your premises. You may also consider making a complaint to the Registrar of the Guide Dog and Service Dog Program as set out below.

You can also expect to see certified dogs-in-training out in public with dog trainers. If you have any questions about whether the dog-in-training and dog trainer are certified, you may ask them to produce a government-issued certificate. Although the dog is still in training, the dog should still be under control of the dog trainer at all times.

Retired guide or service dogs are allowed to continue to live with their owner handlers and are issued a separate certificate. Retired dogs do not, however, have the same access rights to businesses, transit, etc. as a guide or service dog team.

Unless you are selling, preparing or serving food, you may choose to allow non-certified guide and service dogs, dogs-in-training, and/or pets onto your premises. For example, you may be approached by an uncertified dog-in-training and handler/dog trainer as part of their skills training in public to practice at your business location. Permitting the team to practice their skills on your premises may assist them in preparing for an assessment to become a certified dog and handler team. If you sell or serve food, you are bound by section 25 of the Food Premises Regulation which only allows public access to those guide or service dog and handler teams with government-issued certificates.

Denying a certified guide or service dog and handler team access or accommodation can lead to a violation ticket, prosecution and fine up to $3000 under the Act and/or a possible Human Rights Code complaint by the aggrieved party. The Human Rights Code also requires you to reasonably accommodate persons with disabilities.

If you have a concern about a certified guide or service dog team or you wish to make a complaint about someone falsely representing a dog as a member of a certified guide or service dog team, you may contact the Registrar of the Guide Dog and Service Dog Program by sending an email to: [email protected], by toll-free telephone at 1-855-587-0185 option #5, or by writing to Security Programs Division, PO Box 9217 Stn Prov Gov, Victoria V8W 9J1.

Guide Dogs and Service Dogs – Information for the PublicFrom VFC Management

2016 Tax Forms


Victoria Flying Club

2016 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 deductible hours per course in 2016. Mail/fax/or drop off this form to Dispatch.

Allowable deductions: As outlined by Revenue Canada Taxation875 Heron Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L8

Licence or Endorsement: Private Pilot LicenceCommercial Pilot LicenceInstructor RatingNight 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, 2016 $300.00 $___________

________hours dual Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2016

________hours solo Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2016

________hours dual and solo claimed in 2016 and earlier re private license

________TOTAL CLAIM in hours (CANNOT EXCEED 45 HOURS)

2016 Tax Forms


Commercial Pilot Course

Ground school Jan 1 to December 31, 2016 $495.00 $___________

Ground school Retread $ 50.00 $___________

________hours dual Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2016

________hours solo Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2016

________hours dual and solo claimed in 2016 and earlier re commercial license

________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 2016, when combined with hours claimed in 2016 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?______________________________Tax Forms received by Victoria Flying Club prior to February 1, 2016 will be completed by February 28, 2016.

For Office Use Only

Date received ____________________ Course _____________________________

Hours: ________________ Dual $______________

________________ Solo $______________

Ground Briefing: ________________ Dual $______________

Ground school: $______________

Total Hours Claimed: ____________Private _____________


First Solos and Member

Achievements

Gavin JohansenInstructor: Brett Stevens

New MembersArwyn PaiceBill LaneDarren Hansen Heather RichardsHector Solorzano-VelazquezHolden BenKalim MabroukiKingslin Qilin LvMikael TissariMonica DittrichRobert SabyanWhitney FordeWilliam Webb

First SoloGavin JohansenKael CampbellMichal Kantoch

PPL Flight TestRyan Varchol

CPL Flight TestAl JohnstonRichard Rebneris

Kael CampbellInstructor: Sean Tyrrell

Michal KantochInstructor: Silvia Zilker

Member Achievements

Image: Instagram: pilot_laura. A foggy November day.

“Without disruption of air traffic, these fearless, forthright, indomitable and courageous individuals

did venture into the wild blue yonder in flying machines. Furthermore, these skillful individuals

did safely land said flying machines at Victoria International Airport, incurring no significant

damage to self or machine, thus completing first solo flights.”

Member Achievements


Diploma in Business Administration —Aviation Option

continuingstudies.uvic.ca/aviation

Combine flight training with a prestigious university business diploma tailored to the aviation industry.

If you’re graduating or have recently graduated from high school and want to become a commercial airline pilot, this program is for you!

Employers recognize that good pilots do more than fly aircraft; they are active problem solvers, strategic decision makers, and superior communicators. The most successful are skilled in business management, leadership, team building, and crew resource management.

Classes are held at the Victoria International Airport or at the University of Victoria campus over a nine-month period.

The unique program schedule means you can complete both your private and commercial pilot’s license and the Diploma in Business Administration.

The only entrance requirements are successful completion of Grade 12, the desire for a career in aviation, and the motivation to complete an intensive business program.

To learn more or to apply, please contact: Business and Management ProgramsT 250-721-8073/8072 [email protected] information about flight training, contact the Victoria Flying Club:T [email protected]

Offered in collaboration with the Victoria Flying Club


Tower Talk

NEW VOICES COMING TO THE TOWER AND CUSTOMER SERVICE SURVEYS

’Tis the season. The beacon light on top of the tower goes on with its definitive thud a little earlier each passing day, the airport authority uses the rain advantageously to sweep and clean our runways while the rest of the country uses something called a plough (Google it, don’t ask me), and we get our bodies used to frigid single digit day time highs. We all make sacrifices. It is also the time of the year that we naturally look back on the calendar that was, what we accomplished, what we didn’t, and what we intend to.

Here at YYJ tower, it has been a busy year. As many of you know, a challenge over this past year that has affected you is one of tower staffing - specifically a lack thereof, to the point where it has at times imposed temporary restrictions on general aviation aircraft. Contributing to this is an issue facing the entire aviation industry and also industries beyond ours: a whole generation retiring, creating a void of skilled employees. A pilot can not be trained within a short amount of time, and neither can a controller. If they are successful, it can take upwards of four years for the combined application, testing, training, and qualification phases of an ATC.

Tower Talk Highlights

Victoria Tower Customer Service Surveywww. prepairyyj.com/survey

PrepAIR Round Table Forum at the Victoria Flying Club in January or February 2017, stay tuned for more details

PrepAIR YYJApril 29, 2017

YYJ presents its own unique challenges for controllers and the training of new ones, but do not worry, there is honest reason for optimism! We have numerous trainees arriving in 2017, and we are doing everything we can to ensure that the appropriate tools are in place to ensure their success.

While new voices are introduced on our frequencies and the trainees embark on their respective training programs, we will still face the possibility of short staffing days through at least the upcoming spring and summer. As always we will do the most we can to accommodate all traffic and requests. It is, and will continue to be in 2017, a fine balance between workload and staffing. We are working through our processes to ensure our staffing level is increased in a timely and thorough manner. We will also be entrusting all users to provide our new voices on air the respect and patience that you afford all of us controllers, for we all remember what it is like to be a student. I firmly believe that we are all in fact students of aviation, and to be as safe as we can, we must continuously be students. So in a way, we are simply welcoming new peers to our YYJ community.

"... a whole generation retiring, creating a void of skilled employees..."

Air traffic controllers exist to facilitate a safe, orderly, and expeditious service. I can not stress that enough, and the service that we are mandated to provide should extend beyond the confines of frequency bands and headsets. Through PrepAIR, we are very pleased to introduce to the local YYJ flying community a Victoria Tower Customer Service Survey. Nav Canada has never before released an initiative such as this at a local YYJ tower level, and it is yet another way that we intend to increase constructive communication with our users. Now, you get to start the conversation - how are we doing?

We want to hear it all: the positive, the negative, and the in-between, with a singular focus on better serving you moving forward. The survey is simple, short, anonymous if you

from

by Simon Dennis, YYJ Tower ATC, ATPL

TOWER TALKDecember 2016


Tower Talk

VFC smile cards

Pick up your smile card today at the VFC office, and 5% of your grocery purchase will go towards creating scholarships and awards for VFC mem-bers. To date, the Victoria Flying Club has received over $17,738 from the Thrifty Foods Smile Card program. These funds have been appreciated by all members of the club. Thank you Thrifty Foods!

wish, and delivered and submitted online through PrepAIR’s website at www.prepairyyj.com/survey. By the time you read this, the link will be active and the survey available, and we encourage everyone to take a few minutes to give us your thoughts.

Feedback isn’t truly useful unless we disseminate the results back to those that provided it. With this in mind PrepAIR will do so by way of a brand new round-table discussion forum, to be first held at the Victoria Flying Club in either January or February of 2017, before our annual pilot refresher seminar.

This three hour session will become a regular fixture throughout the year, to be held every one to two months on a weekend afternoon and be mediated by myself and possibly other tower representatives. It will provide yet another way for controllers and pilots to effectively communicate off air and face to face.

Along with a continuous dissemination of our survey (which will be permanently available via the URL above), the discussion during these sessions will be centred around a question and answer format, giving pilots more of a forum than our more structured annual seminar to simply ask questions. During our seminars, there never seems to be an end to the demand for the closing Q and A session, and it is only due to time that we have to cut it short. These ‘mini-seminars’ will provide a continuation of this discussion and

fill the need for a forum between our annual refresher event. They will be, as with all PrepAIR events now and in the future, completely free of charge and open to all. Stay tuned for specific details in January’s edition of Tower Talk when registration details for PrepAIR YYJ 2017, coming April 29th, will also be released.

Until then, I have some pre-Christmas vacation and travel coming up, so you will not hear from me on air until I return mid-December. Continued thanks for striving to make yourself a better pilot, for your patience with us at the tower as we all work and fly through short-staffing days, and for your support of PrepAIR. Again, please take the time to participate in our new survey via our website. Your comments and voice will be heard more than ever before.

Look back upon the year that was, on the challenges both in and out of the cockpit that you faced and overcame, on those still in progress, and ultimately upon what you have learned. Continued learning is so important in everything that we do, but especially in the tower and skies. Fly safe, take care, and best of the season.

Simon Dennis is a YYJ tower air traffic controller, ATPL holder, co-creator of PrepAIR Pilot Accredited Inter-user Refresher seminars, and former VFC instructor. He can be reached at [email protected].


The COPA Flight 6 Board consists of:

Flight Captain (President): Rob Shemilt Co-Captain (Vice President): Allan Rempel Navigator (Treasurer): Art Reitsma

Eighteen members of COPA Flight 6 showed up for the November meeting featuring James Bogusz from the Victoria Airport Authority. We last heard from James about a year and a half ago and James brought us up to speed on further changes planned at YYJ. Although the focus of the VAA is managing the property and facilities, they are certainly open to helping the General Aviation community exist at this very busy airport.

Aircraft movements continue to grow at YYJ making it sometimes difficult to manage the commercial and general aviation side of the business, but should questions or concerns arise, James will address them. One COPA Flight 6 member brought forth a proposal to alleviate inbound and outbound traffic by proposing a shorter runway beside 09/27 for general aviation use, but this was met with some resistance from the VAA. Although a good idea, runways

are an expensive undertaking and the VAA has other more pressing facility upgrades before this could be considered.

If you value the freedom to fly at YYJ and other aerodromes in Canada, I urge you to attend COPA Flight 6 meetings and show your support. In conjunction with James’ presentation, COPA Flight 6 held its annual meeting, with one result of no changes at the Board of Directors level. Rob Shemilt will remain in the Captain (President’s) role along with Allan Rempel as Co-Captain (Vice-President) and Art Reitsma as Treasurer. The next COPA Flight 6 meeting will be Tuesday, December 6th 7:00 PM at the Victoria Flying Club. Meeting topic TBA.

From the BOD, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and all the best VFR/IFR weather in 2017. Again please join us at VFC, and you neither need to be a member of COPA National nor a Victoria Flying Club member to attend.

Email: [email protected]: copaflight6.blogspot.ca

FLY-OUT BUG COPA Flight 6

COPA Quadrant

Images: James Bogusz from the Victoria Airport Authority leads the discussion on upcoming changes planned at YYJ.

Ground School Schedule


Ground School ScheduleWinter 2016

Private Pilot Classes run Mon. and Wed. from 19:00 to 22:00.

DATE TOPIC INSTRUCTOR

Dec 5 Navigation I Brady

Dec 7 Navigation II Brady

Dec 12 Navigation III Brady

Dec 14 ATC Brett

Dec 19 Review Brett

Dec 26 NO CLASS N/A

Dec 28 NO CLASS N/A

Jan 2 Canadian Aviation Regulations & Licencing I Brett

Jan 4 Canadian Aviation Regulations & Licencing II Brett

Pricing: Ground School Course: $350Ground School Kit: $275Learn to Fly package: $675

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The Victoria Flying Club operates a charter service to a variety of destinations the lower BC area. VFC Charter offers inexpensive, timely, and direct transportation to places not serviced by other commercial carriers.

The charter service is an on-demand operation (no set schedules) and is operational in day VFR conditions. Please contact us for more information on destinations and costs.

For more information or to book a flightEmail: [email protected]

Call: 1-778-350-3213

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