Hi all,

The next PFC Event of 2013 is the "Mountain Flying Seminar". This seminar plus some flying components is required for people who do not already done the Mountain Flying Familiarization and Flights and wish to fly in mountainous terrain. People who have already done this and may wish to use it as a bit of a Rust Remover. Many of the trips we have planned for 2013 will require you to have this training/familiarization to participate in them.

MOUNTAIN FLYING SEMINAR
PFC at CZBB
Saturday Feb 9, 9 AM

RSVP with PFC Dispatch (604.946.0011)

Flight safety in the mountains is not an elusive or difficult concept, but it does require an awareness and understanding of the hazards associated with mountain flight to reduce the risk and bring about an enjoyable experience. These seminars are intended for those who are about to obtain the PFC Mountain Check ride, and for those who have already done the check ride and are interested in improving their skills. Topics covered in the seminar include weather considerations, navigation, mountain wave phenomenon, turbulence, ridge crossing, course reversal procedures, canyons, illusions, aircraft performance considerations, survival considerations, precautionary landings, and much more.

The training involves the Saturday Ground School portion (about 2.5 hours), a ride in the Simulator where we put you through advanced manoeuvres and various scenarios to add to your flying skill-set, (and this portion has the advantage of being able to be done at any time regardless of the weather as long as the weather doesn't knock out the electricity to run the simulator). This is followed by a local mountain flight in a 172 to complete the other phases of the air training, taking about 1.5 hours.

If you've already done the Mountain Familiarization/Check, you would still benefit from the taking the Ground School session, as well as the Simulator Ride portion because it does allow you to practice scenarios you wouldn't do in the mountains in a real airplane as part of a training exercise. The Redbird Simulator does a pretty darned good job a creating a realistic training/familiarization scenarios for this king of training. Any simulator time you do for this can be logged as Dual Simulator time, and it is less expensive than renting a 172 (plus it is not weather dependent).

Cheers

Pete