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What is your name?Greg Duerksen  Instagram Name (If Applicable):@CVAV8R What is your occupation?New Construction / Maintenance at Camp Qwanoes What is your home airport? CYCD What year did you start flying?1993 Where did you learn to fly?Started at Coastal Pacific, then Principal Flight Training, currently training at Vital Aviation  Why did you start flying?I’ve had a […]

Canadian Aviator Magazine which is owned and edited by BCGA member and supporter Steve Drinkwater is offering a special subscription rate to BCGA & COPA Members! The special member price is an annual subscription (6 issues) for $12 (Regular price $26). Call 1-800-656-7598 to subscribe. Thank you to Steve and Roberta for their continued support

Are you a teen who has what it takes to leave ordinary behind? If you do, then NAV CANADA’s Explore Aviation Summer Camp is made for you! With the success of last year’s inaugural camp, NAV CANADA is announcing the second edition of the Explore Aviation Summer Camp for teens. Last summer, 30 students attended the first edition of

Copied from: Aman Parhar Editor, Vanderhoof Omineca Express  Vanderhoof Airport will expand its apron by 50 feet and has received approval from the Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund Society (NKDF), British Columbia Air Access Program (BCAAP) and the Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT) to do so.​The first grant for the project from NKDF was received on May 26, 2018

Underwater Egress TrainingLangley on January 24th & Nanaimo January 28th50% Off BCGA Member Discount!ONLY A Few Available We are excited to announce that Pro Aviation Safety Training will be offering an underwater egress course on January 24th in Langley and January 28th in Nanaimo. Pro Aviation is offering a BCGA Member discount for this course and the

Dear BCGA Members, As we begin a new year I would like to take a moment to thank all the BCGA members that have continued to make this organization a success! This will be our 4th year and we have come along way. 2018 was a great year as we saw more pilots flying and

One year ago the Kelowna Flying Club (COPA Flight 36) began its flying program with the purchase of a Grumman Tiger C-GVXY. The addition of an aircraft really put the flying back into the flying club. The model used by the Kelowna Flying Club for the purchase and management of the aircraft was adopted from

At a recent BCGA seminar the usual hot topic of 406Mhz ELTs, Spot & Inreach GPS trackers came up in the discussion. We have written here before on How To Help Your GPS Tracker Help You. In that article we give an example of a customs. message that you can and should include in your

What is your name?Mike Guiel Instagram Name (If Applicable):@instaguiel What is your occupation?Property Manager What is your home airport? Langley (CYNJ) What year did you start flying?2015 Where did you learn to fly?Skyquest Aviation Why did you start flying?It wasn’t something I’d wanted to do as a career when I was younger and after taking a

The 2018 BC General Aviation Association annual general meeting was held on October 27th in Kamloops, BC. We could not have asked for a better day for flying as members flew in from the Lower Mainland, Kelowna, Chilcotin and from as far as Prince George. The skies were clear and the winds calm and volunteers