COPA is excited to announce the 2019 Aviation Career and Scholarship Guide. The 2018 Guide, presented by COPA and the Air Canada Pilots Association, was widely applauded across the Canadian aviation industry as an important source of information for people looking to enter all areas of the field.

We are keen to build on this success for an even more robust Guide in 2019. In order to accomplish this, we need your help. Please complete the form below for each scholarship your Flight offers by November 30, 2018.

To access the 2018 Guide, please visit our website: https://copanational.org/en/aviation-career-and-scholarship-guide/

Over the coming months, Transport Canada is visiting local stakeholders, including COPA Flights, in the various regions. To help Flight Captains prepare for these meetings, we have prepared some high-level talking points on a number of key issues to help guide your discussions. Feel free to tailor as needed with your local or regional perspective.

• General Aviation Safety Campaign
  • COPA is pleased to be working closely with the regulator to explore and promote new, voluntary safety enhancements and best practices throughout the industry
• 10-year Constant Speed Propeller Overhaul Requirements
  • There is no evidence to support keeping this requirement in place
  • The United States, with the world’s largest fleet of General Aviation aircraft, does not have such a requirement and does not have any accident data pointing to this as a cause
  • Requiring owners to budget for expensive, arbitrary overhauls diminishes their capacity to invest in other, proven safety enhancing technology or equipment
• Delays in Service
  • COPA members across the country report numerous instances of TCCA not being able to meet its published service standards
  • Undue delays in processing applications, permits, and other documentation creates barriers to entry for those in the industry
  • As COPA Chapters, we will be dialoguing with COPA on a national level to submit harmonized comments
• Regional Differences within TCCA
  • COPA encourages TCCA to harmonize processes and policies across its regional offices
  • Regional offices should not be making policy that differs from what is in the CARs and TC Advisory Circulars
  • As COPA Chapters, we will be dialoguing with COPA on a national level to submit harmonized comments
• ADS-B and ELTs
  • COPA encourages a dialogue with government and the ANSP that looks at new, modern technology, such as ADS-B, as a possible replacement to antiquated, ineffective ELT units to meet Search and Rescue performance requirements
  • The concept of ELTs dates back decades and recent missing-aircraft incidents have shown it to be unreliable and ineffective
  • Looking at new technology to help find missing aircraft will provide greater certainty for pilot and passengers, as well as their families, and reduce the burden and cost on an already-stretched Search and Rescue network

Nav Canada will soon be conducting another round of Area Operations Consultation Meetings (AOCM). We encourage all COPA Flight Captains, or their representative, to attend these important meetings as they are not only a good source of information about potential plans and priorities, but they allow us to show the GA community is active and involved at the local level. More information on the specifics of each meeting will be shared as the details are finalized. The tentative schedule for 2019 is as follows:

April 2019

Winnipeg – April 11 (Winnipeg AOCM)
Montreal – April 23 (Montreal AOCM)
Toronto – April 24 (Toronto AOCM)
Calgary – April 30 (Edmonton AOCM)

May 2019

Vancouver – May 13 (Vancouver AOCM)

TBD

Moncton – tbd (Atlantic AOCM)

Many COPA Flights have asked COPA to source a group package of Directors and Officers Liability Insurance. In order to do so, we need some information from you. Please complete the form below. Responses will be kept confidential and only aggregate, de-identified information will be used to source a group package.

As part of the ongoing General Aviation Safety Campaign, being delivered in partnership with Transport Canada, we are pleased to announce an exciting new service for COPA Flights.

COPA and Transport Canada are looking for Flights across the country to identify suitable individuals from within their Flights to receive training and accreditation for the administration of the GA Safety Seminar, the new program developed to help more pilots complete their two-year recency requirements.

Once Flights have identified suitable members to receive the training, TC inspectors from the region will provide a briefing and new course modules that those individuals can administer as needed to their Flight. The goal with this new program is to help make it easier for Flights to get the latest information through their rust removers and other safety sessions without necessarily the need for Transport Canada employees to attend in person.

We are asking that all Flight Captains, by December 31^st, identify one or two individuals within their Flights that meet the following criteria:

• Instructor, ATPL or equivalent
• Superior knowledge of the Canadian Aviation Regulations
• Experience and knowledge of the Canadian aviation industry
• Ability to educate

Please provide the name and contact info of these individuals to Carter Mann, Director of Government Affairs: cmann@copanational.org

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over the past 65 years the On the Horizon section of COPA’s magazine has become one of the go-to resources for aviation events in Canada. In 2017, we expanded this section to include the online listing on COPA’s website, where it continues to attract even more traffic than the print version.

As we continue to look at ways to improve the quality of our publications, our publishing and editing team has asked us to have a new look at the way we structure this feature to see if there are any ways of improving it.

With little, or no structure in place, this section has become very challenging both from a quality control perspective, and also incorporating it into the magazine in a way that balances the section’s purpose while optimizing opportunities for editorial content and advertising spaces into the magazine.

In light of the above, we have worked with our magazine team to come up with some guidelines for those wishing to have their events listed in print form in the On the Horizon section of our magazine. We feel the new guidelines will help focus the section on those events coming up first, add incentive for our COPA Flights, and generally improve the quality and ease of reading of the On the Horizon section.

A copy of the guidelines are included below:

On The Horizon

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• Maximum of 5 lines. Max 10 lines if bilingual. Each additional word $.30/word (same pricing as magazine classified ads)
• COPA Flights get free event listing
• Non-COPA Flights may place an ad for $10.00/issue (commencing February 1, 2019)
• No content limits for listings on copanational.org
  
• On the Horizon events will be accepted a maximum of three magazine issues from the event date. Deadline for submission is: the first day of each month for the following month’s magazine
• Web-only ads can be submitted at any time
• Ads submitted for publication in the magazine will be automatically listed on copanational.org
  
• Must contain:
  • City, Province
  • Four-character airport identifier
  • Host organization name
  • Short description of the event
  • One of: contact email address, phone number, or website URL

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• Listings available to COPA Flights only – must include COPA Flight number
• Maximum of four lines – maximum 8 lines if bilingual
• Sorted by province, then alphabetically by city
• Must contain:
  • City, Province
  • Four-character airport identifier
  • Host organization name – including Flight number
  • Short description of the event
  • One of: contact email address, phone number, or website URL

[/td_block_text_with_title][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Reminder: All Flights have voluntary access to COPA’s free website hosting service. Flight Captains should contact Carter Mann for more information and to get set up.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]