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COPA Flight 5 - Boundary Bay Flying Club
Is hosting an Open House Night at Delta
Heritage Airpark (CAK3) at the RAA Roundhouse
Monday, November 17, 2014 at 19:30-21:30
All COPA Members, Flying Club Members
And aviation enthusiasts are welcome.
Guest Speakers
Kevin Psutka,
Canadian Owners Pilots Association
President and CEO
Kevin will be giving a COPA update on the proposed
Aeronautics
Act ammendments relating to Aerodromes in Canada, and the
100LL
Avgas Replacement Project. This is an important issue to GA
pilots.
Belinda Bryce,
The Magnes Group Inc.
Aviation Manager,
Belinda’s topic is Aviation Insurance 101
1 comment:
Dropped by the meeting, my view:
Urbanization is going to edge out developed airports. Land value, noise, non-green activity. Most airports were a war effort legacy, and it's gone now. My focus would be on smaller municipal airports of the Courtenay or Chilliwack model, of the "friendly farmer" King George and Delta Airpark variety. Rowena is another good example of "all we need". BTW, this is already the model in Europe were airport operations became hideously expensive - aviation went underground, or more accurately to friendly farmer fields.
Avgas replacement. 100LL is doomed because of environmentally unfriendly additives, and will be replaced by yet another aviation fuel by 2025. Sorry, not interested. As long as it is a specialty product it will be expensive and rare. I'm more interested in making my plane run on whatever any other vehicle is running. There was the example of a $800 drum at Resolute - we should trying to make the plane burn whatever the snowmobile runs on, not some new specialized fuel that will cost even more and be harder to find. A specialized fuel is an expensive luxury that I'm not interested in pursuing because it's a dead end. What I wanted to hear was how to adapt my engine to run on mogas, like a Rotax. What modifications can I do, lower compression, electronic ignition, etc. Nope, they were still pitching how to avgas a high compression turbo twin to 25,000'. Nobody I know.
Last presentation was on aviation insurance and was pretty well done. Covered everything you need to know, how to be proactive (for you octogenarians that won't let go of the handles) to keep getting insurance. And how to save costs. Covered some specific benefits of COPA insurance but also was informative and helpful wherever you shop.
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