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Weekly Update - Issue 527 - June 01, 2024

Feds Announces New RCAF Training Contract

Federal Defence minister Bill Blair announced on Wednesday (May 29) the awarding of a 25-year contract valued at $11.2 billion that will see the acquisition of 71 training aircraft of various types for the RCAF. The contract, which is to begin in 2029, was awarded to SkyAlyne Canada Limited, a partnership between KF Aerospace of Kelowna, British Columbia and CAE of Montreal. The partnership was formed in response to the federal government’s desire to consolidate various flight training related contracts into a single contract as per their previously announced Future Aircrew Training (FAcT) program. more

IPhone as an ELT?

There was a tragic loss of two lives in a plane crash in a remote area between Squamish and Vancouver on May 24. The TSB is gathering information.What makes this incident unusual is that it was the nearby Squamish detachment of the RCMP that first received word that an accident had occurred, via an automatic crash notification from a smartphone. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria was notified and helped coordinate the response (there was no immediate report on whether the aircraft was equipped with an ELT and whether it was triggered in the crash). more

Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief

The Reno Air Racing Association has announced the new home of the National Championship Air Races, and it is Roswell, New Mexico. The first races will take place in September 2025. The host airport will be Roswell Air Center (KROW). It counts over 5,000 acres under its control and is currently also used as an aircraft ‘boneyard’ for the storage of unused aircraft. Roswell is also known for its annual UFO Festival, this year being held in July........more

Featured Magazine Article

The Evolution of Radio Navigation

WITH GPS, MORE OF A REVOLUTION

by ED Mc DONALD

Navigating, whether it is in a
car, boat, aircraft or spaceship,
has been revolutionized by
satellite-based navigation, commonly
known as GPS. What we take for grant-
ed today has been the product of an
evolution that began shortly after the
Second World War and has accelerat-
ed dramatically in the past 20 years............................more

Featured Reading

African Skies

by

Robert S. Grant

Readers of Robert Grant’s regular columns and occasional features in Canadian Aviator magazine know that his prose brings alive the environments he finds himself in. His book African Skies is no exception, as Grant recounts his experiences in Africa, from Algeria’s Sahara Desert in the north to the jungles of the Congo, from Sudan’s Darfur region in the east to Liberia on Africa’s west coast. And many more regions are described in the over 400 pages full of African Skies, and the sights found on the ground between flights. ....more

Video of the Week

Apple’s Crash Detection Feature

Smartphones are continuously getting smarter. With a smartwatch or phone that includes crash detection as a feature, pilots can have another type of emergency location device to augment their ELT. It works with cellular services if available, otherwise an SOS is sent via satellite. This writer knows of at least two instances where aircraft accidents were initially reported via cellphones with this feature. This short video explains how the feature works on an Apple iPhone.

Click the above image to view the Video.

Airport of the Week

Rankin Inlet Airport (CYRT) is located at Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and is operated by the government of Nunavut.

Rankin Inlet is an Inuit hamlet on the Kudlulik Peninsula in Nunavut. It is the largest hamlet and second-largest settlement in Nunavut, after the territorial capital, Iqaluit. On the northwestern Hudson Bay, between Chesterfield Inlet and Arviat, it is the regional centre for the Kivalliq Region.

In the 1995 Nunavut capital plebiscite, Iqaluit defeated Rankin Inlet to become territorial capital of Nunavut.

Archaeological sites suggest the area was inhabited around 1200 CE by Thule people who were bowhead whale hunters. By the late 18th century, they were succeeded by Kivallirmiut (Caribou Inuit) who hunted the inland barren-ground caribou, and fished for Arctic char along the coast, as well as the Diane River and Meliadine River.

The town itself was founded by the owners of the Rankin Inlet Mine, just north of Johnston Cove. Starting in 1957, the mine produced nickel and copper ores from an underground operation. The mine was the first case of Inuit miners in Canada.

The airport has a 6000 by 150 foot lighted asphalt runway (13/31).

Source: Wikipedia Skyvector

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