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Weekly Update - Issue 551 - November 17, 2024
Featured News

New Cirrus Aircraft Models Get TC Certification

Some of this Week’s Other Highlights in Brief

  • The Grey Cup arrived in Vancouver on board an RCAF CH-149 Cormorant helicopter ahead of Sunday’s CFL football game. “In 1942, during the height of World War II, with the war in Europe raging and thousands of young Canadians serving overseas, both the football unions and Canada suspended play and disbanded their teams," said CFB Comox base commander Colonel Chris Shapka. At the welcoming ceremony at downtown Vancouver’s Coal Harbour, Col. Shapka explained that at the 30<sup>th</sup> Grey Cup competition in 1942, the RCAF fielded teams in a bid “to lift national morale”, emphasizing that the RACF and the CFL “share a deep historical connection.” That year. the RCAF Hurricanes (of Toronto) defeated Winnipeg’s RCAF Bombers 8 to 5 to win the Cup............more
Featured Magazine Article
Take Survey

 

Shingles
A PAIN IN THE BACK

 

 

by Cameron Boyd, M.D.

 

tThe 64-year-old female pilot at- 
tended her CAME (Civil Aviation 
Medical Examiner) even though
she knew that, with her present health 
issue, there was no chance her medical 
certificate would be renewed; she just 
wanted to see the CAME so that he knew 
her present status. 
.....
..more

Featured Reading
Take Survey

A Most Extraordinary Ride

by

Marc Garneau

 

A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space.

On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one of our country’s proudest moments, inspired a nation and ushered in a new era of space exploration for Canada. Twenty-four years later, Garneau made history yet again, becoming the first astronaut to be elected as a Member of Parliament.

 . ...more

Video of the Week

SAREX 2024

SAREX 2024 was the multi-agency Search and Rescue exercise held on and near Vancouver Island in September. Our Tobyn Burton was assigned to cover the exercise on behalf of Canadian Aviator. In September we published his first video on the exercise. Tobyn, also an active YouTuber and Instagram user, has now completed a second video, which treats us to a flight in the RCAF CC-130H Hercules that took part in the exercise. Tobyn captured some great in-flight cockpit scenes as well as some spectacular scenery of the Coast Mountain range on the British Columbia mainland from up close, inside the Herc and looking out the open rear ramp.

Click on the image above to view the video.

 
Airport of the Week
Take Survey

 

Grande Prairie Airport is considered the gateway to the Alberta and British Columbia Peace Region. With daily direct flights to Edmonton and Calgary it offers one stop connections to the rest of the world.

 

Maintaining a friendly and comfortable atmosphere, Grande Prairie Airport has many of the conveniences and amenities as larger airports. 

 

Grande Prairie is a city in northwestern Alberta, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), approximately 456 km (283 mi) northwest of Edmonton. The city is surrounded by the County of Grande Prairie No. 1.

Grande Prairie was the seventh-largest city in Alberta in 2016, with a population of 63,166,[8] and was one of Canada's fastest growing cities between 2001 and 2006,[9] and Canada's northernmost city with more than 50,000 people.

 

The city has adopted the trumpeter swan as its official symbol due to its proximity to the bird's migration route and its summer nesting grounds. For that reason, Grande Prairie is sometimes nicknamed the "Swan City". The dinosaur has also emerged as an unofficial symbol of the city due to paleontology discoveries in the areas north and west of Grande Prairie.

 

The airport has an 8502 by 148 foot main  runway(12/30) and a 6200 foot secondary runway (07/25).

Source: Wikipedia and https://grandeprairieairport.com/  Skyvector

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