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Weekly Update - Issue 466 - April 01, 2023
Featured News
 

Purchase of Boeing Patrol Aircraft One Step Closer

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Earlier this week the Government of Canada announced that it has issued a Letter of Request (LoR) to the U.S. government requesting an offer for the procurement of up to 16 Boeing P-8A Poseidon to fulfil the RCAF’s requirement for a ‘Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft’ (CMMA) to replace its aging fleet of Lockheed CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft, in service since 1980. This follows on the government’s ‘Request For Information’ issued last February to various potential suppliers, and the high-level meeting between Canadian federal ministers, U.S. authorities and Boeing representatives in Washington, D.C., reported on by Canadian Aviator in our February 24 newsletter. . ............more

Hawker Typhoon to Fly Again

On Vancouver Island, not far from CFB Comox, a group of dedicated volunteers is rebuilding, to flying condition, a British-designed and built Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber that saw action in the Second World War. The group are members of The Typhoon Legacy Co., headed by Ian Slater, and they are motivated to “remind people of the sacrifices made by Canadians during the war.”    .......more

Airline Pilot Organizations Object to Single-Pilot Cockpits

Several airline pilot groups are joining forces to protest any move toward single-pilot operations by airline companies or airliner manufacturers around the world. Representative of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA), the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have issued a statement that states, “…technology, no matter how sophisticated, is not a replacement for pilots on the flight deck.”.....more

Featured Magazine Article
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ATC Readbacks

 

WHEN THEY ARE REQUIRED, NOT REQUIRED AND NOT WANTED

 

by MICHAEL OXNER

Radio communications, as we all 
know, are not perfect. Pinching a cable can make your headset function inadequately if a wire gets broken, radios don’t always work as well as we’d like, and so on. Even when everything is working just fine, sometimes the transmission is a little garbled, blocked by another transmission, or you’re just distracted in the moment and miss the call....
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Featured Reading
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Flying Canucks III

by

Peter  Pigott

“In the five years since the Flying Canucks series began,” says Pigott, “I have never ceased to marvel that everything connected with aviation in Canada took place in the proverbial blink of an eye.” It is barely eleven decades since Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian to achieve sustained flight, and only 90-odd years since J. Dalzell McKee and Earl Godfrey made the first flight across Canada.  ........more

Video of the Week

Hawker Typhoon to Fly Again

A Comox Valley group is rebuilding a rare Hawker Typhoon Second World War aircraft. The painstaking work began years ago to locate and find original pieces. CBC video producer, Mike McArthur, went to check out the progress.
Click the Above Image  to watch the video:
Airport of the Week
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Natashquan Airport (CYNA) is located adjacent to Natashquan, Quebec.

Natashquan is a municipality in Minganie Regional County Municipality, Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada. It should not be confused with the adjacent but separate Innu reserve of Nutashkuan.

 

The community is located on the north shore of the Jacques Cartier Strait and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, straddling both banks of the Little Natashquan River, some 120 km (75 mi) east of Havre-Saint-Pierre. (Source: Wikipedia)

 

The airport has a 4495 by 100 foot lighted asphalt runway (14/32).

Airport Diagram Website |Skyvector 

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