Experience Spectacular. Aviation destination

THE PATRICIAN
February 2016
The Victoria Flying Club ~ Aviation Excellence Since 1946
VFC Challenge
2016:
Experience
Spectacular.
Aviation destination info
for Tofino - p. 9
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THE PATRICIAN
February 2016
Monthly Newsletter of The Victoria Flying Club - Aviation Excellence Since 1946
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“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.”
This Issue
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Women in Aviation News
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Getting There - Tofino
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Ground School Schedule
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VFC Achievements
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Eerie Encounter
Eleanor Eastick, VFC Member
(Victoria Flying Club Incorporation Bylaws, 1946)
Board of Directors
President...................................Ramona Reynolds
Email: president@flyvfc.com
Vice President...................................Howard Peng
Secretary......................................Colin Williamson
Treasurer.............................................Rob Shemilt
Directors............................................. Steve Demy
Vernon Fischer
Rolf Hopkinson
General Manager.................................Gerry Mants
Chief Flying Instructor.................... Graham Palmer
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Sidney, BC V8L 5V5
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VFC Challenge 2015
Final results
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Mentoring
Tracey Burns
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COPA Quadrant
Eleanor Eastick
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News from VFC
VFC News
Notice of Victoria Flying Club AGM - March 3 2016
The Victoria Flying Club Annual
General Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, March 3rd in
the VFC pilot’s lounge. The meeting will begin, as it always does,
at 6:00pm with wine and cheese.
The business portion of the evening gets under way at 7:00pm.
What Happens at the AGM?
The purpose of the Annual General
Meeting is to provide an opportunity for discussion and decision
making amongst club members.
As a not-for-profit organization, we
are governed by an elected volunteer Board of Directors. Three of
the main functions of the AGM are
to review prior year results, discuss
plans for the current year, and also
to establish the board of directors
for the upcoming year.
Who is Eligible to Vote at the
AGM?
While attendance at the AGM is
open to all members, voting priviliges are extended to those with
Sustaining Memberships and Life
Memberships only. If you have
been a member in good standing of the Victoria Flying Club for
24 consecutive months, then you
are eligible to apply to become a
Sustaining or Life Member. Sustaining Members and Life Members recieve a discount on aircraft
rentals, fuel, etc. If you have been
a member for 24 consecutive
months, please pick up a Sustaining Member or Life Member application from the VFC office, and
plan to attend the AGM.
How Can You Get
Involved?
The Board of Directors consists
of a group of Victoria Flying Club
members who use their collective
knowledge and skills to conduct
Editor’s Note
I would like to extend a large thank you to Christie
Hall for her years of commitment to the VFC community, with best wishes for her future successes. You
will be missed!
As of this month, Christie has passed the editorial
baton of handling The Patrician on to me. I come to
the Club with a different sort of aviation background.
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club business on behalf of all
members. They are governed by a
set of by-laws and make decisions
regarding aircraft and equipment,
facilities, staffing and various other
areas of club business. Sustaining
and Life Members are eligible to be
nominated for a director position.
Nomination forms are available at
the VFC office and nominations will
also be accepted from the floor
at the AGM. Directors must be
nominated by two other Sustaining
or Life Members.
Being involved with the VFC Board
of Directors is a great opportunity
to contribute to the future of the
Victoria Flying Club, and to the local aviation community.
For more information, please contact VFC Manager, Gerry Mants,
at gerrym@flyvfc.com or 250-6562833.
For years, I worked with STR-SpeechTech Ltd, the
Victorian company behind the broadcast software
and ATIS voice you hear when you fly in and out of
the Club (if you were at the Wing’s Banquet this
year, you may even have shook hands with ‘The
Voice’ himself!). I look forward to getting more involved in the flying side of aviation and to hearing
your own experiences.
Katy Earl
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VFC Achievements
FIRST SOLOS
Ned Peach
Instructor: Brett Stevens
Ranjit Devi
Instructor: Brett Stevens
Constantine Trikeriotis
Instructor: Sean Tyrell
Pragadesh Sunderasan
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.”
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VFC Achievements
VFC MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS
New Members
Ryan Kuhn
CPL Flight Test
Alexander Tay
Sahib Singh
Lynn Flandera
Brandon Hay
Tyrone Sinclair
Christopher Gibbs
Denise Howden
Gary Sorge
Griogair Stewart
Iain McBride
Ilke Altindis
Isaac Craghtten
Jirawat Dendandome
Joshua Allen
Joshua Mackey
Paul Kroeker
CPL Flight Test
First Solo
Adan Thornton
Constantine Trikeriotis
Glen Golonka
Ned Peach
Stephanie Boucher
Pragadesh Sunderasan
Ranjit Devi
PPL Written Exam
Cem Uner
PPL Flight Test
Mitch Warren
Night Rating
Elgin Penner
Ethan Bugden
Ron Ducharme
Seaplane Rating
Gavin Rose
Group 1 IFR
Ethan Bugden
Qizhao Chen
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VFC Member Contribution
Eerie Encounter
Eleanor Eastick, VFC Member
“Traffic, twelve o’clock opposite
direction, type and altitude
unknown. I’m not talking to him.”
Now there’s a radio transmission
that’s enough to make any pilot
sit up higher and take notice.
We were eastbound from
Victoria, 5500’, maybe ten miles
offshore from the mainland when
Vancouver Terminal contacted us
with the unsettling alert. Needless
to say, my passenger who was also
a pilot, and I leaned forward in
our seats, scanning the clear sky
ahead for the traffic. We didn’t
have a TCAS in our C172, but
maybe that wouldn’t have helped
in this case....
It was a beautiful sunny day,
perfect VFR conditions, just the
type of day, in fact, when most
mid-air collisions take place.
Pilots are relaxed, their eyes are
generally at the default focus
of two metres, sky-scanning
becomes undisciplined and
haphazard. After all, don’t we fly
our little planes to unwind, to
get away from the earthbound
noise, traffic and troubles? Ah,
complacency!
On top of that, for the relaxed
VFR pilot in controlled en
route airspace, there is an
expectation of being looked
after by someone hunched over
a radar screen in a darkened
room somewhere. Now Terminal
had spotted a prime target and
startled us out of our laid-back
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lethargy. Was the conflicting
traffic some careless aviator
who’d strayed into the airspace,
no clearance, off-frequency and
without a Mode C? Or was it
something more sinister?
Yoicks! I vaguely recalled reading
that it takes a minimum of 12.5
seconds to initiate an avoidance
manoeuvre...rapid calculation
of two aircraft closing on one
another at 120 KIAS times two!
Eyeballs bugged out with serious
sky-scanning, left, right, up,
down. Dang! why is it so hard
to see another aircraft in a big,
seemingly empty sky!
Then, quite literally, out of the
blue, there it was! Below and
slightly to port.
“Did you see that thing?” I
gasped to my passenger as I
watched a bright sphere of
light pass somewhere beneath
our aircraft and vanish a short
distance behind.
Yes, he had caught a glimpse of
“the thing”. It was not another
plane, it was not a stray weather
balloon, it was not a boat on
the water more than a mile
below us. Was it a reflection off
something? No. Whatever it was,
it had shown up on radar.
There was only one conclusion:
it was a UFO! Cue the creepy
music!
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Now that doesn’t mean to imply
the traffic was a space ship give me a break! I’m a big fan
of 1950s sci-fi and I’d know an
alien ship if I saw one - they’re
shaped like saucers or cigars
with rows of pulsating coloured
portholes. No, the thing seen by
myself and my passenger was
an unidentified flying object,
or UFO. This was a term coined
by the USAF in 1953 and defined
as “any airborne object which
by performance, aerodynamic
characteristics, or unusual
features, does not conform to
any presently known aircraft or
missile type, or which cannot be
positively identified as a familiar
object.”
Well, that definition certainly
applied to what we saw on that
lazy summer day in the late
1990s. In this case, it was a very
low-level UFO. Since I was over
featureless water, there was
nothing by which to judge its size
or altitude other than to say it
was below 5500’. It was maybe
twenty feet below me, maybe
500 feet; its size? Maybe one
foot across, maybe twelve feet.
It was a sphere of steady white
light without a really distinct
edge, not a hard edge such as
a weather balloon would have.
It wasn’t spinning or pulsating.
Okay - weird, what else can I
say? But it was real because it
was observed on radar, although
the controller never came back
with “traffic is now past you”. It
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must have disappeared off his
screen as suddenly as it vanished
from my view.
It was all over in 15 seconds.
I have puzzled about this off
and on since that day, and I
have concluded that the UFO
may have been ball lightning,
regarded by scientists as a
relative of St. Elmo’s Fire, that
unearthly glow that can come
off ship masts and aeroplane
wingtips. St. Elmo’s Fire has
been observed throughout the
ages and is a well-documented
weather phenomenon.
But ball lightning - those
eerie orbs in the sky - has
been witnessed and recorded
throughout history but only
accredited as a genuine physical
occurrence in the 1960s. Prior to
that time, despite innumerable
eye witness reports, ball
lightning was considered a hoax
at worst and the eye witnesses
unreliable at best. In truth,
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it does sound unlikely that a
sphere of glowing matter could
enter a room, bounce around
as if looking for something and
then quietly leave through a
door or window. Ball lightning
was so often described as doing
just that. Now science admits it
exists.
Today there are video files of
naturally occurring ball lightning,
the first recorded in 2012 in
China. The ball captured on video
travelled horizontally roughly
50 feet in two seconds before
dissipating. Since then scientists
have even been able to produce
ball lightning in laboratories. Oh,
goody! In fact, you can make your
own ball lightning at home with a
lit or recently extinguished match
and a microwave. But don’t try it;
it will wreck your nuker!
The science behind all this
is quite beyond my meagre
brain; it has something to do
with plasma and ionization and
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electromagnetic charges. I can
only report what I have learned
from my research and compare it
with my pragmatic experience.
The facts are these: lightning
shows up on radar, ball lightning
is spherical, it has the brightness
of a domestic lamp, it can last
up to one minute, its intensity
remains constant, it can move
horizontally a few metres per
second, it disappears suddenly
without any noise. Ball lightning
is generally associated with
thunder storms, but not always.
During WWII, night fighter pilots
in both the European and the
Pacific theatre reported seeing
balls of light moving around their
aircraft, following them or flying
in formation with them. They
were never threatening. These
phenomena were so common
that they were given the name
foo fighters. At the time, they
were investigated seriously as
possible secret weapons of the
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enemy. But the enemy was also
experiencing foo fighters, and in
all likelihood investigating them
as secret devices of the Allies.
It has been suggested that
the foo fighters could have
been light reflections from ice
crystals in the air, or that they
could simply have been retinal
afterimages of flak bursts
nearby. Neither explanation
cuts it. The Robertson Panel, an
American study group formed
in the early 1950s, suggested
that the foo fighters were
electrostatic phenomena similar
to St. Elmo’s Fire, but did not
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use the term ball lightning.
(Incidentally, that illustrious
panel came into being to
investigate the extraordinary
number of sightings of UFOs
around Washington, DC at that
time and undoubtedly spawned
the alien spaceship genre of
really bad movies).
To date, there is no allencompassing explanation of the
foo fighters. Ball lightning comes
the closest but even that falls
short. Pilots are forever seeing
UFOs, even photographing
them from airliners at high flight
levels; most are identified pretty
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quickly, but there are a few
unexplainable phenomena out
there yet.
As for me, a low-level goodweather VFR rec pilot - did I
observe ball lightning? I think so,
unless, of course, it was a flying
saucer from outer space. Cue
the creepy music!
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Destinations
Getting There - Tofino
GETTIN’ THERE
Aviation information for local destinations
aviation information for local destinations
Destination:
Tofino (CYAZ)
Why Go?
There are books and websites
full of reasons why you’d want
to go to Tofino. The beaches
are spectacular, the local area
has a ton of attractions and the
flight itself has some amazing
scenery – mountains, lakes,
islands, etc. All in all, the flight
to Tofino is the quintessential
West Coast aviation experience.
Depending on conditions, routing, etc. figure on about sixty to
seventy-five minutes flight time
each way. However, unless
you go the long way around the
coastline, this IS a mountain
flight. If you’re flying Club aircraft you need to have taken the
Mountain Flying Course to go to
Tofino. Weather is also a factor. Tofino is usually accessible
in the summer but hit-and-miss
during the winter.
Rent-a-Car. The golf course has
a restaurant that’s open during
the summer but other than that
if you want food you’ll need to
head into town.
Getting There
There are basically three routes
you can take to get to Tofino.
They are:
• Victoria -> Lake Cowichan ->
direct to Tofino.
• Victoria -> Lake Cowichan ->
Nitinat Lake -> coastline to
Tofino.
• Victoria -> Sooke -> coastline
to Tofino.
The first option is the most
direct route however be aware
that between the end of Lake
Cowichan and Barkley Sound
you’ll encounter some pretty
mountainous terrain. The second route takes a bit longer but
is more scenic, taking you past
a couple of lighthouses. The
third route is the longest route,
and it’s the only way to get to
Tofino if you haven’t taken the
Mountain Flying Course.
Finally, no matter which route
you take remember you’ll be
cross-ing Barkley Sound so
you’ll want to have sufficient
altitude to reach shore if you
need to.
From the airport it’s a good
twenty minute walk to the
beach, and about a ten minute
walk to the golf course. To get to
town you will need to call a taxi
from the airport terminal building
or have made other transportation arrangements. Located in
the airport terminal building is
Orca Airlines as well as Budget
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Destinations
Once you’re over Lake Cowichan or out over Sooke you’re
out of controlled airspace and
on your own. Don’t forget to
monitor Pacific Radio on 126.7.
You also have the option of
climbing higher and requesting
flight following from Vancouver
Centre.
Rwy 25 extends into the trees
while Rwy 29 is close to the
beach.
As you cross Barkley Sound
you’ll be heading in the general
direction of Ucluelet, probably
a good time to start monitoring the Tofino frequency since
on a nice day there can be a
lot of traffic headed in and out
of Tofino. Start your descent
when you feel it’s safe to do
so. You’ll make your initial call
to Nanaimo Radio (DON’T call
them “Tofino Radio”… they get
rather grumpy) before reaching
Florencia Bay. As you proceed
inbound to Tofino airport watch
for the areas that have altitude
restrictions.
• Taxiway Foxtrot has a gravel
covered ditch about halfway
along. It is passable (or was
at the time of this writing) but
you do have to be careful if you
choose to cross it.
Local Knowledge
• If you’re landing on Rwy 16
it’s better to go around the hill
that’s on the approach path as
opposed to turning base inside
the hill.
• The quickest way to the
beach is south-east along the
terminal apron and taxiway Golf
to the road, turn right and follow
the road down to the main road.
There’s a parking lot with beach
access across the road. All in
all, about a 15-20 minute walk.
• Check out the WWII vintage
building that houses the weather station.
almost instantly so you’ll want
to keep a constant watch on
that nearly permanent fog bank
sitting off-shore. Because the
weather can change while
you’re in flight it’s a good idea
to make use of Nanaimo Radio
or Pacific Radio for up-to-date
weather information while you’re
enroute. Also, pay attention
to fuel reserves and alternates
when doing your flight plan. If
you get to Tofino and can’t land
your only viable alternates are
usually Qualicum, Nanaimo or
Victoria. Make sure you can get
there. Port Alberni is often overcast when Tofino is so you can’t
always count on Port Alberni as
an alternate.
Other local weather factors to
be aware of include:
• There are no Weather Cams
at Tofino but the ones at Amphitrite Point and Estevan Point
Lightstation can give you an
idea of what Tofino will be like.
• You need to be aware of
wildlife, particularly deer and
bears. Bears often hang out in
a small clearing off of taxi way
G and occasionally can be seen
in the infield between the runways. I’ve also heard of people
having to go around because of
animals on the runway so be on
the lookout.
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• Fuel is available by card lock /
credit card at the main apron.
Weather
Ucluelet Tourism:
• The thresholds of Rwy 25 and
Rwy 29 are close together and
it’s really easy to get mixed up
and land on the wrong runway.
Tofino has a METAR and a
TAF however you’ll also have
to engage the Mark I eyeball.
Weather at Tofino can change
Flying into Tofino isn’t really
complicated and you shouldn’t
have much of a problem. However, here are a few things to be
aware of that you may not find
written down:
• There’s a landing fee at Tofino
which, at time or writing, is $15.
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Tofino Airport:
www.tofinoairport.com/index
Tourism Tofino:
www.tourismtofino.com/activities
www.ucluelettourism.ca
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VFC Challenge
2015 VFC CHALLENGE
We enjoyed a fantastic year
flying all over BC. Here are
the last stats for the 2015 VFC
Challenge (Dec. 28th):
Current Standings:
Club Aircraft
1 Kevin S (15)
2 Peter H (13)
3 Brett W (11)
4 Colin W (11)
5 BJ C (9)
6 Ian B (9)
7 Jessica J (8)
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8 Brenda M (8)
9 Ron J (8)
10 Don D (8)
11 Bill K (5)
12 Rustom A (5)
13 Silvia Z (4)
14 Tom V (4)
15 Jamie W (3)
16 Andrew Y (3)
17 Joey M (3)
18 Cortland R (3)
19 Doug N (3)
20 Marna J (2)
21 Duncan C (2)
22 Crystal S (2)
23 Scot E (2)
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24 Callum E (2)
25 Howard P (2)
Owner Aircraft
1 Norman Y (31)
2 Tom D (12)
3 John L (9)
4 Dave W (4)
5 Simon C (2)
THANKS FOR
PARTICIPATING!
A big thank you to Doug Neal
for keeping the online stats up.
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Coaching
Mentoring
Tracey Burns, Executive Coaching and Consulting
For this issue I thought I’d
cover the topic of mentoring
since it is a process that
involves communication and is
relationship based. Two topics
I’m asked about often. Loosely
defined, mentorship refers to a
personal, developmental
relationship in which a
more experienced or more
knowledgeable person supports
a less experienced or less
knowledgeable person. If you’ve
been mentored and/or been a
mentor then you will know that
it involves so much more than
this definition. If you’re currently
in a mentoring relationship
and have volunteered to be a
mentor to someone, you will
know that mentoring is truly an
act of generosity and service,
a gift that creates meaningful
relationships that sometimes
span longer than the life of
the mentoring agreement. I’ve
often heard people recall with
fondness the incredible impact
a mentor had on them.
If you’re currently a mentee
then I’d like to take a minute to
acknowledge your willingness
to trust another human being
with your ongoing development.
One of the greatest gifts in
being a coach is that we learn
something about ourselves from
each client we work with. Our
clients trust us to address
matters that other people
will avoid. Such is the
mentoring relationship. Trust,
communication and relationship
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are the building blocks of the
mentoring relationship. In
addition, mentoring creates the
opportunity for you to learn
about yourself through this
unique relationship.
Quite often I am hired to support
people to become better
communicators and therefore
improve their mentoring
relationships. My first lesson
in communication usually
involves listening. In this age of
technology, we are absorbing
more information than ever
before, we are so rushed we
seldom really take time to listen,
truly listen to the people around
us. Do you know that coaches
are trained to listen using
multiple levels of listening? Did
you know that there was more
than one level?
My second lesson is to put
your judgments, thoughts and
interpretations on hold and
DISCOVER. Get curious, who
is that person over there? I
don’t know about your little
gremlin but I know my little
gremlin works overtime, if left
unchecked it will constantly
finish sentences and add things
onto the end of sentences. So
tell your little gremlin shhhhhhhh
and practice listening and being
with people. What you might
find will surprise you. Although
we are all unique we are also
very similar in our fundamental
desires. This point was brought
home to me several years
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ago when I had the chance to
train and lead a group of new
coaches in Malaysia. Despite
the difference in our cultures I
quickly realized that they
desired the same things in
life that I did, to be happy,
experience good health, to be
understood and to love and be
loved.
There is much more to a
mentoring relationship including
structure and a clearly defined
plan. If you’d like more
information on how to begin
mentoring in your organization
and/or business I’d love to hear
from you. In the meantime, I
thought I’d share one of my
favourite quotes that I think
defines the very essence of
mentoring.
“The greatest good you can do
for another is not just to share
your riches, but to reveal to him
his own.”- Benjamin Disraeli
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Submitted by: Eleanor Eastick
The first meeting of Flight 6 for
the New Year took place on
January 5th and attracted a
big turnout; twenty-two people
came to learn about winter
aircraft maintenance and cold
weather flying. The AV
presentation by Flight Captain
Rob Shemilt was followed by an
animated discussion with good
input from the owners of planes.
The COPA Flight 6 Board
consists of:
Flight Captain (President)
Rob Shemilt
The next meeting will take place
on February 2nd - Groundhog
Day - don’t forget it! The
evening’s topic is not yet
confirmed, but come along
anyway to the VFC Lounge at 7
PM for some good hangar-flying
and ??? It’s a chance to keep
in touch with fellow members
and pilots. We always have fun
when we get together.
Co-Captain (Vice President)
Allan Rempel
Navigator (Treasurer)
Art Reitsma
March will feature a talk by an
airline pilot who flies the longhaul routes overseas - this
will be a meeting not to be
missed! Plans for spring
meetings will deal with flying
into the US and getting a grip on
their ever-tightening procedures,
and talks about the summer funflyouts to come.
You don’t need to be a COPA
member to attend the meetings.
For further information,
contact copaflight6@gmail.com.
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!
711 A Broughton Street
(street level, by Victoria Public Library)
Victoria BC V8W 1E2
Aviation Excellence Since 1946
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Dream. Discover. Experience. Explore.
Take the first step at VFC!
Call us today to get started! 250-656-2833
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