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Full-Motion Seaplane Flight Simulation at VFC
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THE PATRICIAN
JUNE 2015
Monthly Newsletter of The Victoria Flying Club - Aviation Excellence Since 1946
“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)
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VFC’s Seaplane Simulator
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COPA Updates
B17 - Sentimental Journey - Pt. 2
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Fleet Captain Corner - Steve Demy
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BC Airport Challenge Updates
Board of Directors
President...................................Ramona Reynolds
Vice President...................................Howard Peng
Secretary......................................Colin Williamson
Treasurer.............................................Rob Shemilt
Directors............................................. Steve Demy
Firat Ataman
Vernon Fischer
Rolf Hopkinson
General Manager.................................Gerry Mants
Chief Flying Instructor....................Graham Palmer
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CADORS Corner
Graham Palmer
1852 Canso Road
Sidney, BC V8L 5V5
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Feedback - The Breakfast of Champions - Tracey Burns
www.flyvfc.com
[email protected]
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May Open House Photos
Phone: 250-656-2833
Fax: 250-655-0910
Editor: Christie Hall
[email protected]
Midnight Design & Communication
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In This Issue
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News from VFC
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VFC News
World’s First Full-Motion Seaplane Flight Simulator:
Victoria Flying Club Still Leading The Way in Local Flight Training After 70 Years
An ambitious technical upgrade
to current equipment has lead the
Victoria Flying Club to unveil the
world’s first full-motion Seaplane
Training Device, and the aviation
industry is taking note.
VFC Chief Flight Instructor Graham Palmer is pleased with the
new developments. “With the
technical savvy and expertise of
VFC member Peter Lagergren
blazing the way, we have made
several advances within the flight
training world. Through accurate
aerodynamic software calibration improvements, Peter has
enhanced the fidelity and performance capabilities of all aircraft
configurations we offer. With the
augmented visual graphic software
created by Don Grovestine, VFC’s
FMX provides the most advanced
and realistic experience possible.
Additionally, through several software and hardware reconfigurations, VFC’s FMX has become the
world’s first ‘full motion Seaplane
Flight Training Device’.”
The Redbird FMX has delivered unmatched training value
for Victoria Flying Club members
and a one-of-a kind experience
to the general public for the past
five years. It is currently the
only Transport Canada Certified
Simulator of its kind on Vancouver
Island, providing synthetic training
realism for Private, Night, Commercial, and Instrument Pilots.
While not a replacement for training in an actual aircraft, pilots of
all levels can hone their primary or
advanced flight skills in a device
which provides accurate motion
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feedback. With the FMX’s electrohydraulic motion platform and
wrap-around visuals, it offers million dollar realism at a fraction of
the cost of all other commercially
available simulators. And now,
for the first time ever, the Victoria
Flying Club’s Redbird FMX offers a
Seaplane training option, currently
unavailable anywhere else in the
world.
This cutting edge development will
expand the Victoria Flying Club’s
already successful Seaplane training program offered at the Victoria
Airport’s Seaplane Base at nearby
Patricia Bay. With the addition of a
Seaplane-capable simulator, pilots
training towards a Seaplane Rating
can benefit from several simulated
water handling scenarios including
all forms of water taxiing and docking under a multitude of conditions,
in addition to gaining practice with
take-offs and landings. Full-motion
Seaplane simulation has never
been done before, and the advances made by VFC have caught
the attention of the developers at
Redbird; In turn, VFC has agreed
to assist in beta testing Redbird’s
development of a “Wide Area
Augmentation Service” (WASS),
a technology found within modern
aircraft GPS systems.
The man behind this incredible
local development is Peter Lagergren, pilot, physicist, and proud
VFC member. A transplanted
American with a 40 year research
and development career in satellite
data communication, Lagergren’s
accomplishments also include
a Commercial Pilot Licence and
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4000+ flight hours, including 275
Cobra combat missions in Vietnam, and 500 hours as an advanced phase military IP. He also
flew as the solo man in a three
ship T-28 aerobatic airshow team.
As a member of the Victoria Flying Club, Lagergren noticed some
quirks in the programming of the
Redbird Simulator. “I started working on the sim,” says Lagergren,
“because I couldn’t hand fly it in
IMC (Instrument Meteorological
Conditions) and that just didn’t
seem right. I was immediately
elected ‘the sim guy’ by acclamation.” Lagergren has since spent
countless hours working with VFC
staff, and the experts at Redbird,
to enhance the performance of
the Redbird FMX, and to add the
additional Seaplane capabilities
currently available only at VFC.
Lagergren is pleased with the final
result, and says the Seaplane
simulation is “a great way for experienced float plane pilots to renew
their skills before going out on the
water and a great way for float
plane beginners to experience it
all before doing it for real.” Additionally, this highly skilled pilot and
scientist is fully enjoying his experience at the Victoria Flying Club. “I
think VFC is the coolest organization that I have been involved with.
Super professional and really nice
people. A safe place to fly.”
VFC President and pilot Ramona
Reynolds echoes Lagergren’s sentiments. “The Victoria Flying Club
is in its seventieth year of training
commercial and private pilots, and
the people here are what really
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make this such an amazing organization. As a not-for-profit, our
members own the Club, and we
love it when members get involved
like Peter has. We are very grateful for his time and expertise, and
excited by his contribution to our
training facility. Having a fullmotion Seaplane simulator on-site
is an incredible accomplishment
and a great asset for our members. We feel confident that this
latest technological advancement
will help us continue in our role as
a local, national, and international
leader in flight training for another
seventy years and beyond.”
We asked Peter Lagergren to
chat with us a bit more about his
work in the simulator. He’s been
a busy guy! His level of understanding of this complex technology is unbelieveable. Thank
you Peter, for sharing your time
and talents with us!
We truly appreciate it!
Notes From The Crypt
Peter Lagergren
So when you have the power of
the keyboard you can do things
just because they seem to be the
right thing to do, so I changed the
background colors of the simulator screens to blue so now when
you get into the sim it doesn’t feel
like you’re crawling into someones
sepulcher. Small things matter.
So when I had light on the subject
I got to work on what are called
“handling qualities”, which are
hard to define quantitatively, but
are easy to see in action. Some
airplanes fly sweetly and pilots
love them and some fly like dogs
and pilots more or less put up with
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them. The history of aviation is
littered with dogs and roses so it
isn’t too much to expect a simulator would follow the same rules.
Our FMX-1000 is really a different
flavor from the airline and military
simulation platforms, because we
the people don’t have that kind
of money to spend. What I found
fascinating in this process has
been learning about the “simmer”
community, which is everything
from guys sitting around in their
underwear dreaming of being Buck
Rogers to serious fliers who use
simulator software to maintain their
awareness of places they are going to fly into and want to practice
procedures before doing the real
thing. For the Buck types, think
Homer Simpson and for the serious ones, Air Canada pilots on a
layover in Berlin wanting to brush
up on Charles de Gaulle airport for
tomorrows flight.
Microsoft spent untold millions producing an amazing piece of software called appropriately enough,
Microsoft Flight Simulator and they
sold tens of millions of them and
plowed a lot of the profit back into
it to make the software incredibly
flexible and, for the most part, true
to life. The basic equations used
in aerospace engineering are the
core of the simulation, and while
the simplifications used to make it
usable by the public won’t let you
design an airplane using it, it can
be made to fly everything from a
4
CF-18 to a Piper Cub on floats.
The operative term here is what
is called “fidelity”, which describes
how well a simulation mirrors the
actual machine and that is a tricky
thing to do. In the big, multi-million
dollar sims, you get to have a few
software engineering types, who
are usually experienced pilots,
hang around and put the finishing
touches on your big investment.
Obviously, you can’t afford to do
that with a general aviation simulator so the customer, that’s us, has
to do it themselves.
So that is what we, including
myself and most of the instructors
on the staff have been doing. The
process is somewhat empirical but
based on sound engineering principles. Once we had the basic aerodynamics of each of our airplanes
sorted out, we spent a lot of time
working on the software controls
that do stability and control effectiveness. Once that was done we
had a working set of software that
the FMX-1000 can use to fly our
airplanes in enough fidelity to the
real aircraft that experienced pilots
can fly it without heartburn. This
also means we can do some ab
initio training in the sim and reduce
the amount of time it takes for students to grasp the fundamentals of
aircraft control. Transport Canada
has approved our FMX-1000 for a
variety of uses, both IFR and VFR
and the time is legally logged. A
true time and money saver.
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B-17 ‘Sentimental Journey’ - Part Two
The Victoria Flying Club is
looking forward to hosting
the Arizona Wing of the
Commemorative Air Force this
coming Summer August 10th
- 17th with their Boeing B-17
Flying Fortress ‘Sentimental
Journey’. As this is a Flying
Tour, the B-17 will be available
for flights, and when not
airborne available for touring on
static display.
This year the Victoria Flying
Club is calling upon members
to act as volunteers to assist in
making this year’s week-long
visit an even greater success.
For anyone interested in helping
out with the visit of this historic
aircraft, please email Graham at
[email protected].
Continued from last month...
On January 14, 1978, at a
membership banquet for the
newly formed Arizona Wing of
the Commemorative Air Force,
Colonel Mike Clarke announced
the donation of the retired B-17,
to the Arizona Wing of the CAF.
B-17G Sentimental Journey
entered service with the CAF in
1978. Arizona Wing members
immediately undertook the
chores of cleaning, polishing
and repainting WW II
markings and bringing the
ship into excellent mechanical
condition. They also initiated
extensive crew training so
that Sentimental Journey was
prepared to fly with the CAF
fleet.
But even the aircraft’s excellent
condition wasn’t enough. Four
operational turrets, operational
bomb bay doors, navigator and
radio operator stations, Norden
bomb sight and machine
guns were required to restore
Sentimental Journey as an
authentic Flying Fortress.
Most people would have been
content to continue the project
bit by bit over several years
but the Arizona Wing members
were eager to complete the
restoration of all military
systems used on the B-17’s
during WW II. In December
1981, the Wing voluntarily
grounded the airplane to
undertake the restoration.
Early projects included
restoration and repainting
in combat color, installation
of the chin and ball turrets
and restoration of the
navigator’s station back to
original condition. Members
soon learned that restoring
an airplane meant trips to
junkyards, bargaining, trading
or begging anyone who had
a needed item, or contacting
businesses that might be able
to fabricate parts that could not
be located. By the end of 1981,
they were ready to put all the
pieces together.
Watch for Part Three of the
B-17 in next month’s issue.
A contest initiated by local
media to name the aircraft
resulted in more than 800
entries, and the ultimate
selection of the name
Sentimental Journey. The
decision was made to use the
most famous pinup picture
of World War II for the nose
art. Permission was secured
from widower Harry James to
add Betty Grable in her most
tantalizing pose to grace the
newly acquired bomber..
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Feature Article
FleetCaptain Corner
FleetCaptain - The Front Counter Interface
Helping smooth the rental experience
DeÞning your Flight Mission
FleetCaptain needs to understand
your mission so it can select the best
plane for you.
If you plan to do accelerated stalls for
example, you need a plane that is
conÞgured for ßight in the utility
category. If you’re carrying a heavy
load, you may need a lower fuel level.
You can use the Front Counter
Interface to enter your mission data.
What is the ßight duration today?
How many people, what do they weigh, in which seats? Baggage? And Transport Canada requires
that the ßight exercises are documented for training ßights, where no such requirement exists for
recreational ßights. FleetCaptain looks at your activity and requires the exercise data only if it is
needed. All the information can be entered into the system at your leisure. When you’re in a hurry,
doing pre-ßight preparations, dealing with passengers, getting a transponder code, Þling a ßight plan
… that’s no time to be in line at a busy dispatch counter. You can put your mission into FleetCaptain
where the dispatcher can then retrieve it with one click, have the system select a plane, print a Flight
Authority form and get you on your way.
What does this mean to you?
You will save time and and enjoy a more relaxed pre-ßight routine. The dispatcher will save time and
avoid transcription errors. While youÕre at the iPad, you can check weather, Þle a ßight plan whatever you want.
Remember that entering a mission is not the same as making a reservation. A plane is not reserved
or dispatched when you enter your data. But when youÕre ready to ßy, go see the dispatcher and
expect speedy service. Give it a try. ItÕs one small step toward making our operation as smooth and
effective as it can be.
Steve Demy
ATPL, ATP (multi), B. Eng. (Electrical)
Victoria Flying Club - Director
Columbia 300 driver
FleetCaptain - Developer
sndaviation.com
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First Solos
FIRST SOLOS
Andrew Matheson
Instructor: Brendan O’Hare
Brenden Manahan
Instructor: Brady Tucker
Connor Neilly
Instructor: Colin Brown
Roderick Mahrt
Instructor: Brady Tucker
“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.”
Scott Auringer
Instructor: Sean Tyrell
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BC Airport Challenge
THE 2015 BC AIRPORT CHALLENGE
Summer’s Here - Let’s Pick Up The Pace!
Current Standings:
Club Aircraft
Summer is here, and it’s a
GREAT time to jump into the
2015 BC Airport Challenge if you
haven’t already started. Every
airport you visit is a chance for
amazing monthly prizes, and every time you fly with a non-pilot
friend, they get entered to win a
Discovery Flight!
There’s a lot of red on the map
still. Over 50 airports yet to be
visited by our members this year.
Is there somewhere you’ve
always wanted to go? Now’s
your chance. Even better... find
a friend or meet someone new
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and get a group together for the
flight. Post your proposed destination on VFC’s Facebook group
page, and invite other pilots to
join you!
Don’t forget the 2015 99s Poker
Run is coming up on Sunday
June 14. Not only is it a super
fun event, but it’s a great way
to cross a few airports off your
“must visit” list for the year - as
many as nine in a single day!
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1 Ian B (7)
2 Don D (5)
3 Ron J (5)
4 BJ C (4)
5 Rustom A (4)
6 Silvia Z (4)
7 Brett W (3)
8 Colin W (3)
9 Cortland R (3)
10 Doug N (3)
11 Jamie W (3)
12 Jessica J (3)
13 Tom V (3)
14 Bill K (2)
15 Brenda M (2)
16 Callum E (2)
17 Crystal S (2)
18 Duncan C (2)
19 Howard P (2)
20 Joey M (2)
21 Scot E (2)
Owner Aircraft
1 John L (4)
2 Dave W (3)
3 Simon C (2)
Safe flying everyone!
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COPA Quadrant
Submitted by: Eleanor Eastick
As always there was a nice
turnout for the May 5th COPA
Flight 6 meeting. The featured
entertainment was several
videos illustrating landings,
take-offs and other close-tothe-ground manoeuvres. It all
made for great hangar-flying as
everyone had something to say
and a lively discussion carried
on for some time. A fun learning
experience!
The next meeting of Flight
6 will be held on Tuesday,
June 2nd at the VFC lounge.
The guest speaker is Jeff
Morris, Chief Executive
Officer and Manager of Flight
Operations, Angel Flight,
Victoria. Jeff is a truly good
and interesting speaker with
his wide range of experience
in aviation. His passion is
Angel Flight, a charitable,
non-profit organization that
provides air transportation
for cancer patients needing
medical services at hospitals
and centralized medical care
facilities in Vancouver and
Victoria. Angel Flight pilots are
volunteers and the service is
provided free.
Come to VFC at 7 PM and
hear what Jeff has to say about
this wonderful organization.
Perhaps you might want to be a
volunteer pilot - find out how!
You need not be a COPA
member to attend these
informative meetings. For
more information, contact
[email protected].
Tofino Flyout goes to
Qualicum, May 30
Submitted by: Eleanor Eastick
While unfortunate that our
primary destination of Tofino,
didn’t pan out due to weather
issues, I think we’re all likely
to agree that our alternative
destination of Qualicum Beach,
made for a thoroughly enjoyable
outing.
Don’t miss out on the next
Fly-Out! For more information,
please contact
[email protected].
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Feature Article
REPRINTED FROM OCTOBER 2013
CADORS
CORNER
By: Graham Palmer, CFI
Since NAV Canada implemented
their “Airspace Redesign” in July
2009 in preparation for the 2010
Winter Olympics, Pilots have been
plagued with CADORs reports
when choosing to navigate through
this area without contacting Victoria
Tower or Victoria Terminal.
In this month’s column we will
focus on the Airspace over the
Gulf Islands stretching from the
southeast at East Point on Saturna
Island towards the northwest along
the southern edge of the Strait of
Georgia towards Gabriola Island
and Nanaimo.
Interoperating the intricacies of the
delineation of this Airspace can be
challenging at first glance. To the
west of East Point at Mt. Warburton
Pike on Saturna Island, Victoria
Tower Class “D” Airspace begins
at 1,200’ up to 2,500’ and extends
westward along Saturna, Pender,
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Mayne and Galiano Island up to
Ganges Harbour on Saltspring
Island. Above this same area,
from 2,500’ up to 12,500’ is Victoria Class “C” Airspace which also
extends beyond Ganges Harbour
northwestward up to Kuper, Thetis,
Valdez, and Gabriola Island.
One of the most troublesome and
awkward facets of this Airspace is
what is referred to by Pilots affectionately as the “Saw Tooth”. Above
the Nanaimo Class E Airspace is a
“notch” extending the Victoria Terminal Class C Airspace to accomodate IFR traffic on approach to the
Nanaimo Airport.
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from the various airstrips, and for
seaplane traffic operating from the
various harbours, and registered
water aerodromes, and for helicopters operating from heliports in the
Gulf Islands, it appears somewhat
more complex. The National Parks
of Canada “Aircraft Access Regulations”, prohibit the landing and
take-off of aircraft within the boundaries of a National Park. A closer
examination of this subject reveals
that while this entire area has been
delineated as a “National Park” on
the Vancouver VTA, in reality this
area has been delineated to encompass a proverbial “mine-field”
of several smaller Parks as seen
in the diagram below. It is within
these individual Park Boundaries
that aircraft are not permitted to
take-off and land without an “Aircraft Access” Permit.
Here, many unknowingly “ChartFolded-Up-and-Put-Away” Pilots
transit up and down the Island
overhead the Nanaimo Airport without contacting Nanaimo Radio, or
Victoria Terminal. Inevitably these
Pilots find themself responding to
a CADORs Report after violating
Airspace.
a voluntary recommendation for
“Noise Sensitive Islanders”.
Additionally, what makes this area
more interesting is that for over
10 years there has been a Noise
Abatement Procedure in effect over
the Gulf Islands. Prompted by the
Island’s Trust, and published in
the Canadian Flight Supplement
(CFS) under Planning (C23), this
procedure requests Pilots to “Operate their aircraft in the most community friendly manner”, and avoid
over-flying the Gulf Islands below
2,000’ ASL unless for the purpose
of take-off and landing. Keep in
mind that this is not a compulsory
requirement by regulation, but is
With the recent release of the 38th
Edition of the Vancouver VTA, the
“Gulf Islands National Parks Reserve” has been delineated with
a magenta line. Interpreting this
change guides Pilots towards the
Aeronautical Information Manual
(AIM) RAC 1.14.5, which suggests that Pilots should not overfly
National, Provincial and Municipal
Parks, Reserves and Refuges
below 2,000’ AGL. Keep in mind
that the only governing regulation
is CARs 602.14 “Minimum Altitudes
& Distances”, stipulating that over
a built-up area that: “Except where
conducting take-off, approach and
landing that aeroplanes shall be
flown no lower than 1000’ above
the highest obstacle located within
a horizontal distance of 2,000’ from
the aeroplane”.
For wheeled aeroplanes operating
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What contributes to the complexity
of this topic is that CARs 602.96(4)
states:
“Unless otherwise authorized by the
appropriate air traffic control unit,
no pilot-in-command shall operate
an aircraft at an altitude of less than
2,000 feet over an aerodrome”.
Keep in mind that there are several
marked aerodromes, water aerodromes, and heliports in the Gulf
Islands on the Vancouver VTA.
Keep in mind that you cannot
overfly the Nanaimo Airport without
talking to anyone; and regardless
of Regulation or recommendation,
it is always wisest to plan to overfly
the Gulf Islands above 2000’ ASL.
Above this altitude, always plan to
communicate with Victoria Tower,
or Victoria Terminal. And always remember the Airspace golden rule…
“It’s always best to beg ATC for
permission, than to answer
CADORs for forgiveness”.
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Feedback - The Breakfast of Champions
Tracey Burns, Executive Coaching and Consulting
It is here that the magic of
perspective unfolds. When we
are willing to embrace that a
perspective other than our own
can potentially shine a light on
behaviours and/or missing skills
that may be getting in the way
of our results we can then begin
the process of change.
“Feedback is the breakfast of
champions.”
- Kenneth Blanchard
What if I asked you, “Are you
open to feedback?” Consider
your true blue answer to that
question. Are you really open
to feedback? Are you a thirst
for feedback? Are you of the
opinion that to see yourself how
others see you is a gift?
It sounds simple enough right?
However, it is here that many
people fall short and instead
the process of giving and
receiving feedback (hearing
where our gaps lie) creates
conflict and upset. Instead,
what was intended to be a
meaningful conversation elicits
defensiveness and resistance.
In an attempt to correct the
outcome we often look at
“what we said” as the source of
breakdown in communication.
Seldom do we address
“who were being”. Were you
righteous or arrogant in your
delivery? What emotion were
you present to as you spoke?
In retrospective, what was your
true intention for the exchange?
What would change if you
shifted your emotion, created
a clear intention and then
delivered the communication?
As the receiver of feedback,
it is important for you to do
your part in order to hear the
feedback objectively. Let’s look
at this further. Think about the
conditions under which you
best learn? What needs to be
present for you? Trust, safety,
compassion? An understanding
of your learning style? Are you
a kinesthetic learner? Visual
or auditory? These are all
important factors to consider,
however another key area that
plays a huge role in our ability
to process feedback is our
past. If we have had a bad or
negative experience in receiving
feedback this will impact how
we receive feedback until we
are willing to learn to trust the
person, process and result
again.
Throughout our careers/life
we attend training seminars,
workshops and perhaps take
complimentary schooling in
order to get ahead. Sometimes
we are keenly aware of the
areas we need to improve
and yet other times we are
completely oblivious. In other
words, our gaps are in our blind
spots.
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Having considered your own
relationship to feedback,
consider a situation that
involves those we lead.
Committee members,
volunteers you lead or maybe
even employees. Like you, in
order to learn and thrive, their
basic, foundational needs must
be met. Think of a specific
time when you delivered
feedback and/or maybe a
performance review. Did you
provide adequate time for
the meeting? What was your
mood? What was your state
of mind during the process?
Do you have a structured
process for giving feedback?
How was the person after the
conversation? Empowered and
ready to implement change or
disempowered and disgruntled?
Remember, the communication
exchange between any two
people is a “relationship” and
as with any relationship, it is
important that you have done
your part to lay a positive
foundation from which the
conversation can occur.
It is incredibly important that
both the giver and the receiver
of feedback ensure that it is
not delivered or received in
a negatively personal way.
Practice sticking to the facts,
provide specific examples
where possible and point to the
behavior without diminishing
the person’s character. Provide
follow up and accountability,
acknowledge change and
encourage those that you lead
to shift. Have them get that you
want them to thrive.
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Taking time to ensure that your
methods of giving and receiving
feedback make the difference
you intended can have profound
effects. Consider what results
you and those you lead could
produce if all people had not
just a positive relationship to
feedback but were a demand
for it. What would it be like if
people asked questions and
truly were interested in the
answers? “Where do you see
I can improve? What stands
in the way of me promoting?”
Creating an environment
where feedback is trusted and
welcomed encourages people
to become life-long learners,
promotes innovation and
cultivates creativity. Capitalize
on opportunities to provide
feedback and model the way by
regularly engaging in receiving
feedback from those you
lead no matter how high you
climb in your career and/or life
accomplishments.
“I have yet to find the man,
however exalted his station,
who `did not do better work and
put forth greater effort under a
spirit of approval than under a
spirit of criticism.”
– Charles Schwab
Tracey Burns, PCC
Executive Coaching &
Leadership Development
www.TraceyBurns.com
Note from the President: All
of us at the Victoria Flying
Club welcome your feedback!
Please feel free to email directly
at [email protected] if you
have any questions or concerns,
or if you just want to drop a note
to say Hi. Thank you. Ramona
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VFC Achievements
VFC MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS
New Members
Ken Lucas
John Wiseman
Edward Atkinson
Bart Casey
Ralph Finck
Anthony Hull
Joel Laurin
Edward Peach
Andrew Lemieux
Alexander MacDougall
Josh Poland
Spencer Loverock
Yi Zhang
Margaret Ross
Mark Dahl
Neil Bennett
Lewis Wilson
Iain Paul
First Solos
Roderick Mahrt
Scott Auringer
Brenden Manahan
Connor Neilly
Andrew Matheson
PPL Written Exam
Katie Smith
Mark Walker
PPL Licence
Elgin Penner
Katie Smith
AIRAF
Michael Bahrey
Class IV Instructor
Jessica Rabideau
A big VFC welcome
to our new members, and to those of
you achieving great
things, we offer
heart-felt congratulations! We are so
proud of your accomplishments!
CPL Flight Test
Thomas Claes
711 A Broughton Street
(street level, by Victoria Public Library)
Victoria BC V8W 1E2
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VFC News
May 9th Open House - A Spring Spectacular!
Our spring open house really was spectacular!
Blue skies, great airplanes, delicious burgers,
and a good crowd made for a fun and productive
day. The most exciting part of any open house
is having the chance to introduce people to VFC,
and to aviation.
Thanks to everyone who visited and shared in
our open house. Special thanks to the BC Aviation Museum, The Catalina Preservation Society,
the "Nanchang guys", and others for sharing their
amazing aircraft with us, to CASARA, UVic, Bart
Casey and other pilots for being enthusiastic
ambassadors of aviation. And to the VFC staff,
instructors and members for being generally
amazing as always.
If you know someone who missed the open
house, but would like to come for a visit, just let
us know. We're always happy to show people
around and take them up for a life-changing first
flight!
Photos: Emma Loewen
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Dream. Discover. Experience. Explore.
Take the first step at VFC!
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VFC Groundschool
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Leaders in Flight Training since 1946
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2015 PRIVATE PILOT GROUNDSCHOOL SCHEDULE
Classes Monday and Wednesday from 19:00 – 22:00
DATE
TOPIC
INSTRUCTOR
June 1st
Flight Operations
COLIN
June 3rd
Navigation
BRENDAN
June 8th
Navigation
BRENDAN
June 10th
Navigation
BRENDAN
June 15th
ATC/Fly-Outs
JASON G.
June 17th
Review
COLIN
June
22ND
Aerodynamics; Theory of Flight & Licencing
IAIN
June
24TH
Airframes & Engines
DAVE
June
29TH
Systems & Flight Instruments
DAVE
July 1st
No Class (Canada Day)
N/A
July 6TH
Human Factors & Pilot Decision Making
BRETT
Canadian Aviation Regulations
BRETT
July 13TH
Canadian Aviation Regulations
BRETT
July 15th
Meteorology
SEAN
July 20th
Meteorology
SEAN
22nd
Meteorology
SEAN
July 27th
Meteorology
SEAN
July 29th
Meteorology
SEAN
August 3rd
No Class (BC Day)
N/A
July
July
8TH
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VFC Classifieds
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 members. Thank-you Thrifty
Foods! To date, the Victoria Flying Club has received over $14,000 from the Thrifty
Foods Smile Card program. These funds have been appreciated by all members of
the club. Thank-you Thrifty Foods!
VFC CHARTER SERVICE
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Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
Charter an aircraft and take up to 3 people.
(restrictions apply)
For more information or to book a flight
Email: [email protected]
Call: 1-250-474-0213
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Help Wanted
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