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Aviation Inspectors Worry About SMS

Aviation Inspectors Worry About SMS Transport Canada’s depiction of aviation inspectors at work. Canada’s aviation inspectors are increasingly giving the Safety Management System a failing grade and more of them believe aviation accidents will be […]

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Sunglasses Spark Cockpit Fire

April 21/14-A Pacific Coastal Airlines Beech 1900 (C-FPCO) flight PCO135 taxied to position for take-off from runway 26L in Vancouver (CYVR). The pilot’s sunglasses, having been left on the glareshield, shorted out the windshield heat […]

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Ice Gives Way Under Twin Otter

April 20/14-The Transwest Air de Havilland DHC-6 200 (C-FGLF) operating on skis had landed at Scott Lake NT and was taxiing to the un-loading area. The aircraft began to break through the ice into slush. […]

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Avcorp Gets Technology Grant

Delta, B.C.’s Avcorp has been awarded a $4.4 million federal repayable contribution to develop new metal bonding technologies for use in aircraft parts manufacturing. The funding will allow the company to hire staff, including university […]

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Fighters To Poland A Major Operation

Last week the federal government announced that Canada will send six CF-18 fighters to Poland in response to escalating tensions in the Ukraine. The aircraft will be part of a NATO operation and will patrol […]

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YVR Drone Video Stirs Controversy

An unidentified person who goes by the YouTube name of Quadrotor Dragonfly is stirring some angry controversy after a clearly illegal and potentially dangerous drone flight resulted in a bird’s eye view of a 737 […]

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Feds Looking for Quick Helicopter Fix

After 20 years of attempting, by various means, to replace Canada’s Sea King helicopters, the federal government has embarked on a kind of speed date with those who might provide one. The Canadian Press is […]

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F-35 Decision Back to Harper

The Harper government now has all the information it has asked for to make a decision on how to move forward with acquiring new fighter jets for the RCAF. The RCAF has finished a comprehensive […]

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F-35 Decision Back to Harper

The Harper government now has all the information it has asked for to make a decision on how to move forward with acquiring new fighter jets for the RCAF. The RCAF has finished a comprehensive […]

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Benjamin Chapman

Flight Date: April 17, 2014 Flight School: Future Air Flight Instructor: Peter Ross Message:Congratulations Benjamin on your first solo.

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McLeod Salvages Fourth in Rovinj

Pete McLeod hits a pylon during racing at Rovinj. Photo by Samo Vidic Canadian Red Bull Air Race competitor Pete McLeod says he was lucky to salvage a fourth place finish out of last weekend’s […]

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Homebuilt Ground Loops

April 11/14-The privately operated amateur-built Super Petrel 100, C-FYGH, was operating on a local pleasure flight from Olds-Didsbury, AB to a private airstrip 10 nm nw of Springbank, AB. An approach was conducted for the […]

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172 Flips, No Injuries

April 12/14-The pilot of C-GZHQ, a Cessna 172N registered to the Abbotsford Flying Club, was conducting a touch-and-go on runway 26L at CYPK (Pitt Meadows Airport). When the aircraft did not accelerate for take-off as […]

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First Air Fires Wayward Pilots

First Air has fired two pilots who went off course on a routine flight March 31. First Air said Thursday it dismissed pilots who got lost on a routine flight from Rankin Inlet to Iqualuit […]