AFC Blog Articles

• Training for Aerial Firefighting and the CL-415
• How a 13-year-old girl made a critical contribution to the Spitfire’s Design
• Flooding in BC
• Golden Anniversary: The Canadian Forces Snowbirds
• President’s Column – November 2021
• Attitude
• COPA Safety Program
• CADORS Reports. Should I be worried?
• President’s Column – October 2021
• President’s Column – September 2021
• Engineer accidentally flies a Lightning
• Steve Henry’s STOL-modded Just Aircraft Highlander
• Celebration of Life for Ron Price
• This Plane Accidentally Flew Around the World
• Winnebago Made A Flying RV
• President’s Column – August 2021
• The Importance of Checklists
• Safety Corner – The long  road from “The Captain is always right” to Safety Management Systems
• AFC Darts Tourney 2021
• Tour of the Lockheed HC-130J Hercules aircraft.
• Abbotsford International Airshow 2021 – Flying In
• Canadair CL-215, 415, and 515; The most efficient aerial firefighting water bombers ever created.
• July 11 Flyout to Victoria
• July 10 Cleanup Party
• Canada’s National Airshow Cairn – Update
• Outline History of the AFC – 2009 to 2012
• Klein Vision AirCar
• President’s Column – July 2021
• June 19 Work Party Results
• Making It Look Easy: The “Magic” of Standard Operating Procedures
• How to scare your passengers.
• The Avro Manchester
• President’s Column – June 2021
• Flight into Danger: Never give up and trust the training!
• F-4 Phantom Jet Slams into Wall with its Afterburner On
• Clubhouse cleanup party
• Sunday Work Party – Help Needed
• Outline History of the AFC – the latest instalment
• Blue Angels Leader, Gil Rud (1986 – 1988)
• Canadian firm first to operate privately-owned F-16
• RAA’s Zenith CH750 Cruzer has a new look!
• President’s Column – May 2021
• Flowers are in bloom
• Remote Air Traffic Control Begins at London City Airport
• The TESLA of Aviation? Flying an ELECTRIC PLANE!
• Awesome Aircraft Paint Schemes
• AFC Centennial Cairn hypostatis established
• McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo; Canada’s Nuclear-Armed Sentinel
• Flying the Beech 18
• Aircraft-based RV
• Goodyear Inflatoplane
• How a A-10 Warthog’s “GAU-8 Avenger” Works
• Why Aircraft Engines Quit
• President’s Column – April 2021
• Vulcan at Red Flag
• de Havilland Mosquito – Was It The Most Versatile Aircraft of WW2?
• The Avro Arrow
• Flying the Virtual Skies: Boeing 707
• Safety Corner
• How Aerial Firefighter Pilots Are Trained
• President’s Column – March 2021
• Update on the AFC Centennial Cairn
• The End of the DC3
• Bought the Farm: An Etymology
• Stand Up Comedy – “Air Traffic Controller”
• The odds were against them: The night my dad’s Lancaster was shot down in flames
• Runways Optional: Twin Otter Tales From The Arctic
• Tour of the F-15C Eagle Cockpit
• President’s Column – February 2021
• Why to be a member of the Airshow Society
• Three Bomber Formation
• Cringeworthy Mistakes I’ve Made as a Pilot (and What They Taught Me)
• Tecnam Developed an Airplane Just For Transporting COVID-19 Vaccines
• President’s Column – January 2021
• Microsoft Flight Simulator history – 1982-2020
• MiG-23 Flogger Walkaround Tour
• Hind Mi-24 Helicopter Walkaround Tour
• AFC Supports Abbotsford Food Bank
• GHW 2021 Coast to Coast National Fundraiser
• President’s Column – December 2020
• New fuel dipsticks for GMA and IUK
• Lise Ash is Giving Hope Wings
• Flight into Yesterday
• Canadian pilot flies to 200 airstrips in 3 months.
• Flying a Westland Lysander
• Virtual Flight on the Concorde with the real crew.
• Piloting JAZZ Dash-8 into Challenging Castlegar Airport
• Aerobatic Hercules
• Boeing 747: Queen of the Skies
• Blue Angels’ final flight in the legacy Hornet.
• Guided Tour Inside the E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane
• President’s Column – October 2020
• AFC History 1967 to 1979
• Lise Ash joining Give Hope Wings again!
• Airspace inefficiency being exposed due to lack of air traffic
• Elsie MacGill
• Impressive flying in a Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight
• President’s Column September 2020
• AFC Centennial Cairn Project
• AFC loses Clark Stelmaschuk and Bill Gibson
• COVID 19 Closure of AFC Clubhouse and facilities update
• Werner Griesbeck and his Wonderful 1938 Fairchild 24K
• President’s column August 2020
• Airshow Timecapsule opening ceremony
• Member Dues Reduction 2020/2021
• A Grandpa and his grandson
• John Spronk Memorial Bench
• Loss of Erissa Yong-Wilson
• Happy 70th Gerry!
• Instructions for fuelling an airplane, by Jeremy Cole:
• F-35A Lightning II Walkaround
• A-10 Thunderbolt (aka The Warthog) Guided Tour
• President’s Column July 2020
• New aviation photography website: https://navpathimaging.com
• “Welcome to Matsqui, Home of the World Famous Abbotsford International Airshow”
• Early years of the AFC
• New winch installed in IUK’s hangar
• Francis Kendall graduation
• Aircraft wash station supplies
• The third place pool trophy
• Taxiway wildflowers.
• Skywriting with a Cirrus SR22
• President’s Column, June 2020
• Gradual re-opening of the AFC Clubhouse and resumption of Flight Ops
• IUK is back in service
• The Cairn and the Time Capsule
• Obit for former AFC member Lorne Nicholson
• Bad landings, close calls, errors and saves
• F-18 Fighter Operations with Mark “Snotty” Bortnem
• How does a turbofan engine work?
• First Flight: Cessna Skycourier
• Need to rent a cheap airplane?
• The Fairey Gannet, a 3400hp, 310mph, bi-fold wings, coaxial propellers, oldest flyingturboprop.
• President’s Column – May 2020
• Avionics upgrades for IUK nearing completion
• BC Coast 99’s poker run postponed
• Origins of the Abbotsford Flying Club and Airshow
• Classic recordings from the Royal Aeronautical Society
• Some things to do while stuck at home
• Finding missing aircraft using mobile phones.
• Replica WW2 aircraft made with recycled materials.
• Electric Aircraft Ultralight
• Operation Manna and Operation Chowdown
• Boeing 737s on gravel strips? Yep. That’s a thing.
• Germany’s Insane Hover Jet Transport: The Do 31 Story
• Stay at Home Airshow
• President’s Column – March 2020
• Flight Simulator options for use in a home sim.
• Skilful flying of a 70 year old non-aerobatic aircraft
• Air Canada’s newest aircraft – Airbus A220-300
• Flight to Barra, Scotland.
• How do airplanes fly?
• Cessna 172: Still Relevant Today?
• Beechcraft Starship Walkaround
• St. Patricks Day Limericks
• Pool tournament 2020 Winners
• President’s Column – March 2020
• Clubhouse Darts Area Updated
• X-Planes: Mach Busters
• F-14 Tomcat Tour
• Accident Case Study: Just a Short Flight
• Cubcrafters NX (nosewheel) Cub
• Vernon Flying Club Monthly pancake breakfasts
• 10 Most Common VFR Pilot Mistakes
• Pool table ready for action!
• The AFC’s Buildings: An Historical Summary
• Possible Airshow time capsule message of greetings from U.S. President Richard Nixon, August 1970
• Drone pilots arrested in Kingston, ON
• Robbie Burns night at the AFC
• STOL Drags in Reno
• President’s Column, January 2020
• Abbotsford Flying Club Organizational Governance & Structure
• Final Dutch Lunch of 2019
• UNLESS YOU FLY WITH SAFETY: WWII PILOT TRAINING FILM
• View from Mt. Cheam
• Xmas lunch by the Sunday Flyout Group
• President’s Column – December 2019
• Laying the foundation for the John Spronk Memorial Bench
• Christmas Decorating Party 2019
• AFC Dart Tournament Champions
• Abbotsford Remembrance Day Flypast
• Glastar Flight from CYCW to CYXX via Mt Cheam Nov 20, 2019
• Airshow Society Holiday Open House
• 21st Century Boyd’s – US goes back to the future
• Spitfire Low Pass
• Alaina Lewis and Culver Props Shop Interview
• IAF Knolling.
• El Al 747 final flight draws 747 in the sky.
• Donation of Whiskey Glasses to the AFC
• Rod Lewis’ de Havilland Mosquito
• Garmin Autoland System for Smaller Aircraft
• First ever skydiving baton pass: Abbotsford 1958
• The Fairey Rotodyne Story
• 1934 Rolls-Royce Merlin car
• Contaminated tanks.
• Vintage Zenith CH-701
• President’s Column – October 2019
• Interview with the Membership Chair
• AFC Pig Roast and Luau 2019
• To Own Up or Cover Up: Why We Should Share Our Mistakes!
• GA’s Four Big Failures
• XB-70 Valkyrie
• Steve Hinton and the 1979 Reno Air Races
• President’s column, September 2019
• RSVP to the AFC Annual General Meeting
• Safety Corner: September
• What can you do if you lose elevator control?
• Flying overweight.
• Density Altitude
• A ride with the Blue Angels.
• Fuel contamination and why take the chance?
• Accident Case Study: Traffic Pattern Tragedy
• No Go-Around: A lesson from the backcountry.
• Approach into Oshkosh
• Quick turnaround in a Saab Viggen
• Aerobatic C-27J Spartan
• John W. Young, one of history’s most experienced pilots.
• A conversation with Apollo 11 pilot, Michael Collins
• Harrier presentation by Kevin Gross, Colonel (ret.) USMC
• A talk with Lockheed Test Pilot Tom Morgenfeld
• Celebrating $250,000 raised and 1000 medical flights for Hope Air¹s Give Hope Wings 3 week NW Expedition
• Preparing the Fly In Camping Area
• Safety Corner: Plan Continuation Bias
• So what’s the rush?
• Hotel room with built-in flight simulator.
• Canadian contribution to the Apollo missions
• Notes from our Past – 1969
• President’s Column, July 2019
• News in brief
• V8-powered Murphy Moose
• Give Hope Wings Week One
• Aerostar Jet
• How does NASA get its footage of spacecraft launches?
• First non-stop transatlantic flight 100th anniversary.
• President’s Column: June 2019
• Mass DC-3 takeoff (and arrivals) for D-Day Anniversary
• Classic Boeing 737-200 with Cockpit Tour
• Wings and Wheels 2019
• Clubhouse cleanup by Dutch Lunch crew
• RAA Chapter 85’s new Zenith Cruzer flies in Delta!
• Hangar Repaving Project
• Millie Watson Recognised by the Airshow Society
• Lighting upgrade on the Patio and gas line upgrade
• Pool tournament winners
• Give Hope Wings
• The Midnight Sun Fly In
• Why You Might Want to Buy a Used Homebuilt
• Massive Stratolaunch aircraft flies!
• Air Canada’s First Father-Daughter Flight Crew
• Concorde’s 50th Anniversary
• Harbour Air going electric.
• President’s Column
• The AFC ‘Flying Incentive”
• Red Arrows Visit – Lower Mainland 26 September
• Give Hope Wings
• AFC Pool Tournament 2019
• AFC St. Patrick’s Day Limerick Contest
• Abbotsford Airport Success
• A rare interview with Neil Armstrong.
• Advantages of Flying Club membership
• The strange tale of the Norden bombsight
• BD-5, A Kitplane Legend
• Landing a F-18 on an aircraft carrier.
• Julie Clark
• RAF Retires the Tornado
• President’s Column – March 2019
• Airshow History Project
• Wayne Cave receives flight instructor safety award.
• Testing an Aircraft Egress Hammer.
• IFR/VFR Safety Refresher workshop
• Girls Fly Too postponed until October 5-6
• X-15 Ultimate Flying Machine
• President’s Column – February 2019
• Robird Ornithopter
• XP-82 Twin Mustang flies!
• Robbie Burns Day 2019
• Geotechnical Testing around GA Hangar
• Two engines over one giant ocean.
• Why do Boeing 737-200s still fly in Canada?
• Short Sunderland Tour
• Shifting Magnetic Poles
• 10 year anniversary of Miracle on the Hudson
• John Sessions’s recovery from accident at YXX
• President’s Column – January 2019
• Elevator Failure At 4500 Feet In A Cessna 150
• AFC New Year’s Party
• Mach Loop fly-bys
• AFC Christmas lunch at Meadowlands
• Wind storm at YXX
• Writing down ATC instructions.
• President’s Column – December 2018
• Forming good habits.
• A Christmas Book List For Pilots
• Christmas decorating at AFC
• Pre-takeoff Briefings for GA flying.
• Foggy landing in a 737.
• Berlin Candy Bomber
• Flying in the High Country Requires Different Skills
• Darryl Murphy honoured by the EAA
• Trailblazing women who ferried warplanes during WWII
• Concerns with Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) Reliability
• Darts tournament final winners!
• High Sierra Fly-In 2018
• Outstanding Member Achievement 2018
• New AFC Life Members
• Canada’s first female jet airline pilot honoured with Alberta Order of Excellence
• Concorde, 15 years after its final flight…
• Can you glide to the runway?
• Vulcanair 1.0 – better than a Cessna 172?
• Flying off aircraft carriers in the 50s/60s
• Safety Spotlight: Top 10 Pilot Tips
• Piaggio Avanti
• With a little help from our friends…
• Aerolite 103 Ultralight
• Flying in an Embraer Phenom 300
• Constant Speed Prop Basics
• Zenith CH-750 STOL Super Duty
• MV-22 Osprey demonstration
• The club has a new airplane!
• Roast Pig Hawaiian Social
• AFC Volunteers at the Abbotsford Airshow
• Sechelt & Texada Flyout
• What It’s Like to Fly the Quest Kodiak 100 Series II
• The Best Flight Instructors Always…
• Yak-110
• Air to Air Photos from Oshkosh
• Drone-hunting Eagles
• Spitfire Mk. IX Walkaround Tour
• How Reno Unlimited Racing Aircraft Keep Their Cool
• Skip Stewart and Prometheus
• Beech Baron Deadstick Performance
• A Visit to Saskatchewan Aviation Museum
• F-16 Fighter Jet – Unique Cockpit Video
• AFC Hangar Operation Awarded BC Air Access Program Grant
• Aerobatics in a C-130
• AH-64 Apache tour
• RCAF CF-18 and Herc in the Mach Loop.
• First Flights for Kids 2018 a success!
• FAA Updates Guidance on Flight Reviews
• Four Loss of Control Survival Scenarios
• Pilot shortage extends to Canada
• An interesting single-seater.
• Chuck Yeager on Air Combat
• FlightChops and the Harvard.
• The Story of Aviation’s Largest Piston Engine
• The Rudder – It Gets No Respect!
• Girl Guides earn their Aeronautics Badge at the AFC.
• Wings & Wheels 2018
• Maximising the Flight Review
• Want to fly a F-104 Starfighter?
• Snowbirds and Blue Angels exchange.
• Air Canada 787 Dreamliner Air to Air Filming in BC
• What it’s like to own a P-51 Mustang.
• Wings & Wheels coming up – May 26, 2018
• Cinco de Mayo TGIF
• Visit to CFB Comox
• Jet hoverboard
• Remembering Dick Collins
• 10 Things “Real Pilots” Do
• Two Year Recurrent Training with Warren LeGrice
• Clubhouse Maintenance Party
• Déjà Vu, Alaska – A Flying Short Film
• We All Need To Be Weather Geeks Now
• Patty Wagstaff flies in a Hornet
• Visiting the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum
• WWII in Colour
• Saint Patrick’s Day Limerick Competition
• President’s Column – March 2018
• Building airplanes is getting easier.
• What’s wrong with experimental pilots?
• What’s wrong with Cessna 172 pilots?
• Affordable Aircraft Ownership Alternatives
• Wings & Wheels – May 26th
• Bevan Tomm’s RV7A
• Aviation’s coolest working dog.
• Martin “Philippine” Mars Walkaround Tour
• 2018 Pool Tournament Finals
• Robbie Burns TGIF
• FlightChops pushes his IFR limits in training.
• Gravity is Overrated
• Crop Duster Ride Along
• Riding the Jet Stream
• Winter Flying Tips
• How to photo a stealth bomber over the Rose Bowl.
• Flying high, far and fast in a TBM 850
• End of the line for the Airbus A380?
• Instructor shortages at historic Ottawa Flying Club
• Building a Boeing 777 out of paper.
• Flight Sim Failure Training
• 85-yr old retired surgeon builds Zenith CH 750 STOL kit.
• New Members
• Christmas TGIF
• You can always go around.
• Ground Effect: What’s it all about?
• Snowbirds 2017 Year in Review
• Logbooks matter.
• Pipistrel delivers 1st electric plane in Canada
• AFC Kids Christmas Party a Big Success!
• Clubhouse gets some needed TLC from some helpful members.
• History of Okanagan Helicopters shared at the club.
• Another Interesting 2-Seater
• Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Flies Again
• Piston Priorities
• Fun Flying in the Aeroprakt A22 Foxbat
• Aerobatics with Sean D. Tucker
• The Story of FlightChops, a Canadian YouTuber who loves flying.
• Werner Griesbeck gets EAA Lifetime Contribution Award
• Impressive landing.
• What Are Canards?
• John Hutchinson on the Concorde
• Arvid makes a wish come true.
• AFC’s First Flights for Kids Success Story
• Bob and Valerie Leroux complete cross-Canada trip!
• An Interesting 2-Seater
• Check the Do List
• Turbulence Avoidance
• UK GA Sector in Crisis?
• DeHavilland Beaver Walkaround and Flight
• How a Turboprop Engine Works
• Ed Boon goes to Oshkosh in a Mooney M20
• STOL Competition in New Zealand
• World’s Largest Flying Hedge Trimmer
• Kitfox S7 Speedster aerobatics
• Flight in a Beaver
• DC-3 on Floats!
• The Engine that Won WW2
• The Death Knell For The Vacuum Pump?
• Kitfox Speedster Aerobatics with Kyle Franklin
• FlightChops flies the L-39
• Boeing 787 draws a 787 in the sky.
• Speed Machines – Breaking The Sound Barrier
• British Airways safety video
• Heavy metal icon flies some vintage metal.
• Leaning the Mixture for a High Density Altitude Takeoff
• AFC’s First Flights for Kids 2017 Report
• COPA has a new look!
• Carb Heat Demystified
• New theory about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.
• Bob & Valerie Leroux begin their journey across Canada.
• F-35A Lightning II vs F/A-18 Super Hornet
• Flying 3 CubCrafters Cubs in One Day
• Air Canada 787 Dreamliner Air to Air Filming
• Electric Planes are Here
• Murphy Radical
• President’s Column – June 2017
• Upcoming Events
• Wings & Wheels 2017
• ATC Simulations by Roger Precious
• Bevan Tomm’s RV7A lands on the beach!
• Tales of survival…
• John Travolta donates his Boeing 707.
• Formation Flying with FlightChops
• CP-140 Aurora
• Ultralight to Maule M7 – Learning as an older Pilot
• Robotic Birds of Prey used at Airports
• Upcoming Events at the AFC
• Club Pictures – April/May 2017
• DIY Stratux ADS-B Receiver
• Evolution of PC-based Flight Simulation
• Canadair CL-415 scooping up water.
• President’s Column – April 2017
• Celebrate Canada’s 150th Anniversary with Bob Leroux.
• Breakfast at YCW – Characters Pub and Grill
• Circular runways – good idea?
• Thank you from Elaine Hart
• Missing Man formation for Shirley Hubbard (1926-2017)
• Gravel Bar Landing – Cessna 172, 180, Maule M7, Bearhawk – Off-Airport Flight VLOG
• ATC Communication tips from a Controller / Pilot – Vancouver City Tour – Flight VLOG
• How to make a great short field landing.
• Last day at the Chilliwack Airport Coffee Shop
• Survive the forced landing
• Handling task overload in the cockpit.
• Magnetic vs. True headings; an interesting read
• The First Flight Simulator
• WW2 Aircraft Markings
• President’s Column – February 2017
• Robbie Burns Night
• Pictures from the Club’s Social Events
• F-35B demonstration.
• Why all world maps are wrong.
• Antonov 124 delivers engine to stricken Boeing 777-300.
• Circuits in a 747-400
• Mountain Flying in Beautiful BC
• Qantas flies a 747 with 5 engines…
• Aussie F-18s flying around buildings…
• The mighty F7F Tigercat
• Morning rush hour at EGLL
• Flying Clubs, Then and Now – Different?
• Bushplane Olympics
• Active Winglets
• MD-80 Low Pass
• Snow removal, done AFC style.
• RNAV Runway 18, North Pole
• Another good video of the Stigler / Brown story.
• President’s Column – December 2016
• AFC Family Christmas Party
• AFC Grey Cup Party
• FHC’s Stories of Wartime and Innovation
• Airbus wins the new Search & Rescue aircraft contract.
• Bullets vs. Propeller
• Tribute to Bob Hoover
• How a Jet Engine Starts
• President’s Column – November 2016
• AFC Winter 2016 Darts Tournament has begun.
• Peter turned 83!
• Tailwheel Technique
• Dubai deploys a “drone hunter” at its airport.
• Upset Recovery Training
• Aviation’s Ridiculously Tiny Airplanes
• Bob Hoover, gone west at 94.
• Double Mustang!
• Transport Canada proposes rigorous rules recreational drone flyers
• President’s Column – October 2016
• Agusta Westland AW609 Test Pilot Describes What its Like to Fly a Tilt-rotor
• How does a Boeing 737 handle in a full stall?
• Abbotsford International Airshow 2016 AFC Volunteer Hours
• Art Knalls and his Harrier
• History of Gander airport by Stuart McLean
• Aluminium – The Material That Changed The World
• President’s Column – September 2016
• First Flights for Kids 2016
• New Members!
• Members visit Pemberton
• GMA getting some well-deserved attention before First Flights
• Fly-In’s Wrap-Up – 2016
• Vimy Flight Tribute
• A New Fly-out, Drive-in Destination
• Solar Impulse 2: Around The World On Sunshine And Guts
• NORAD Interception Procedures
• Smooth Operator
• How To Survive An In-Flight Electrical Fire
• 747: Stacks Of Paper To iPads
• Low level in a F/A-18.
• Viking Aircraft makes it’s 100th Twin Otter 400 Series
• Reporter flies in the Super Hornet at Abbotsford Airshow
• AOPA Nall Report Shows Decline in GA Fatal Accident Rate
• Mosquito Documentary on restoration of CF-HML
• President’s Column – July 2016
• Adrian Renker’s 1000th hour flying airplanes.
• Coastal Pacific Seaplane Training
• Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) a threat to aviation?
• If you haven’t heard of Foreflight, it may be time to check it out!
• The Good Year Blimp
• Goodyear Blimp Visits Abbotsford
• Why Skids Are More Dangerous Than Slips
• French Airshow
• President’s Column – June 2016
• Wings & Wheels 2016 Report
• Flyouts
• Victoria (CYYJ) VFR Arrival & Departure Procedures
• How The Military Hid The Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant
• 50 Cent Hotdogs
• From Empty Nester To Private Pilot
• Conair’s RJ-85 Air Tanker
• What’s all the flap about?
• Risk Management
• Inside The Cockpit
• President’s Column – May 2016
• AFC’s Wings & Wheels – May 28
• Sunday Morning Flyouts
• Flyout to Powell River
• Annual Quiz Study Sessions
• WestJet’s 737-200 Retirement Flight
• Why Are There So Few Female Pilots?
• Backcountry Landings
• Soft Field Landings
• Soft Field Takeoffs
• Float Training
• President’s Column – April 2016
• Breakfast in Chilliwack
• BC General Aviation Association
• BCGA Flying Events Calendar
• BC Coast 99s Poker Run
• Survival Vest Philosophy
• Forced Landings
• Air Facts by Richard Collins
• Flying into Oshkosh 2015 with FlightChops
• Does Maneuvering Speed Really Protect Your Plane?
• Prototype Double-Ender Bush Plane
• President’s Column – March 2016
• Gil Vidler & DC2 – April 8th, 7-9pm
• Hangar Talk Day on February 27.
• Dean Bryan’s float ride.
• AFC Winter 2016 Pool Tournament
• When Night VFR and IFR Collide
• 13 Reasons to Learn to Fly Tailwheel
• Captain Eric “Winkle” Brown passes.
• Cutting the costs of airplane ownership.
• 360 Cockpit Tours
• Bob Hoover interview.
• Thick Fog ILS CAT III Landings at Gatwick Airport
• Amateur-built full-scale Mk.9 Spitfire
• President’s Column – February 2016
• AFC on Joy TV’s Fraser Focus.
• AFC Social Pictures for Feb 2016
• Mountain Flying Videos
• Leaning Basics with Mike Busch
• Collision Avoidance: See, Sense, Separate
• Airspeed vs. Angle of Attack – What pilots don’t understand.
• Washington Aviation Association PNW Conference 2016
• Standard Procedures, Primers, Flight Safety.
• DeHavilland Buffalo Prop Vortices
• Staying current at 85.
• Flying Is…
• Burt Rutan: Honoring a Legend
• Battle of Britain Flypast – 18 Spitfires, 6 Hurricanes
• How a compass works.
• Boeing B-29 “Fifi” Walkaround
• President’s Column – January 2016
• Annual Christmas Lunch at CYCW
• Flyout Pictures!
• Flight in the Vicinity of Convective Weather – TC
• Full Moon Flights for 2016-01-11
• C-GHXT by Clark Closkey
• AFC Photo Night! Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 19:00
• Music Event: Gil Vidler & DC2 – Jan. 15, 7-9pm.
• Abbotsford Aircraft Maintenance Arriving Early Spring!
• Donuts in the snow…
• Wings Over the Rockies
• 23 Rules of Flight
• IFR Approach to Santa’s Workshop
• Spot landing technique
• Survive after the forced landing.
• Timelapse of a U2 being disassembled.
• How does aircraft CG affect performance?
• VFR Phraseology
• Airport Etiquette
• Tecnam P2010
• Mastering No-Power Approaches
• Weather Wise: Gathering Information
• Angle of Attack Indicators
• Avoiding Power-On Stalls
• How It Works: Constant-speed propellers
• Blue Angels 360-degree video
• Presentation on GMA’s engine instruments.
• Pre-flight inspections….
• Hawker Fury Mk 1
• Low-level flight in a BAE Systems Hawk T2 around the UK
• Captain Brown’s Story
• Falklands’ Most Daring Raid
• Spitfire Mk.1 Restoration
• Battle of Britain 75th anniversary CF-18
• Flight in a P-51 above Abbotsford Airshow
• Dynon D2 Pocket EFIS
• Landing flaps: Some, all or none?
• GA aircraft prices vs. sales and the market for refurbished aircraft.
• Beechcraft Bonanza F33C Aerobatics
• Cessna 172 night landing at Chicago O’Hare
• Concorde videos
• Valdez-style STOL Flying from Oshkosh 2014
• Pilot Reliance on Technology
• The Power of Checklists
• Cessna 182 by A2A Simulations
• 2014 Valdez STOL Competition
• Inside a Jet Engine
• The RCAF’s 11-min Fighter Pilot Fitness Program
• Canada Celebrates Battle Of Britain With This Stunning CF-18 Hornet
• The Stabilised Approach
• AFC Flyouts Video
• F-22 Raptor vs. SU-30MKM
• World’s first 3d-printed jet engine.
• Forgotten Pilots, Story of the RAF’s Air Transport Auxilliary (ATA)
• New U.S. Air Force One will be a Boeing 747-8
• Awesome air safety video from Air New Zealand.
• AIRSHOW on Discovery Channel
• Survive: Beyond the Forced Landing
• 8 Ways to Maintain Your Pilot Profiency – Webinar
• What it’s like to fly at 70 000 feet
• The Mighty J58 engine from the SR-71 Blackbird
• Commercial Jetliner Joined by Virgin Galactic
• Five Airbus A350XB in formation flight
• Old BO-105 german anti tank helicopter getting flown by a great pilot.
• Concorde’s Last Flight
• Concorde Captain talks about a barrel roll.
• USAF Thunderbirds – Fly Amonst the Solo Thunder
• F-35 or F-18 Super Hornet: It’s really not that complicated.
• Spitfire Sisters – Story of the women in the Air Transport Auxilliary
• Debi Fitzgerald’s Mosquito
• Cessna 172 by A2A Simulations
• Analog Flying
• A-10’s in Action
• World’s worst planes.
• Navy Hornet Ball Videos – 2013-14
• de Havilland Mosquito – The Plane That Saved Britain
• MiG-29’s
• The Right Fighter For Canada Is The Super Hornet, Not The F-35
• Guided tour of the de Havilland Mosquito by Kermit Weeks
• Rolls Royce V12 27L Merlin
• Ron Price receives 2014 Award of Merit
• John Spronk (1926-2014)
• Angle of Attack
• Microburst Event
• Crosswind difficulties in Birmingham, UK
• F-35’s single-engine design too dangerous for Canadian air force, report says
• Spitfire 944
• Precision Flying
• Safety is an Attitude
• Trans-Atlantic flight in a Lancaster bomber: $79,100
• Jay Leno’s Merlin-powered Bentley.
• Interactive look at air travel traffic in the world.
• Cessna Caravan ditches in Hawaii.
• Natural Gas-powered Airplane
• Flying the SR-71
• Skydiver & Pilot Survive Collision
• SR-71 Tour with Richard Graham
• Low-level flight in a RAF Typhoon
• Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
• Canadian-registerd Bf-109 For Sale, $3.7M
• De Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo High Wind Landing
• CF-18 Performance at Twilight
• 737 Cockpit for Home
• Viking Air’s Twin Otter
• Flying with Kids
• British Airways 747-400 in D-Check
• Documentary on the new 747-8
• Kermit Weeks Flys the P-51C Mustang
• Christmas Tree Harvesting with a Helicopter
• Tribute to Marty Lehner
• Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown’s First Meeting & Other Stories about their first encounter
• Approach into Queenstown, NZ
• Virgin America Safety Briefing
• B-2 Documentary
• Besler Steam Plane
• Skywriting comedy…
• Space Oddity, Cmdr. Hadfiled Style
• CF-18 Hornet Tour: Pilot Interview and HD Cockpit Video
• Vulcan XH558 going around…
• Landing on a highway in Alaska
• Avro Vulcan Howl
• de Havilland Mosquito Photo Flight
• New book written on the Franz Stilger & Charlie Brown story.
• Drop Zone Pilot’s Crazy Landing
• Kindergarten in a Yak-42 airplane.
• Get a $100 cup at Tim’s in Oxford House, MB.
• London Heathrow Time Lapse video
• Chuck Yeager flies Mach1 on 65th anniversary of original supersonic flight.
• Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final move
• Cessna 182 STOL King Katmai
• Retired Conair Firecat goes to Langley Museum of Flight
• Canadair CL-415 Firefighting in Spain
• de Havilland Mosquito KA114 flies again in New Zealand
• P-51D Twilight Tear tests her guns.
• William Barker – Canada’s most decorated flying hero.
• Not enough preflight preparation cause of midair plane crash – TSB
• Goodyear F2G “Super” Corsair Engine Startup
• CYXX for Flight Simulator by Don Grovestine @ Stuff4FS.com
• F-14 Tomcat – Bogies & Bandits, a video series
• Dynon Pocket EFIS
• Restoration of Piper Archer II C-GIUK
• Boeing 747-800 Queen of the Skies
• Coming soon to the AFC hangar… Speedbird IUK !
• P-51D Mustang by A2A Simulations
• de Havilland DHC-4 Caribou – World’s Strongest Nosewheel.
• The Last Ace
• Flying Cars – will these ever really take off?
• WestJet introduces child-free cabins.
• Savage Cub
• Testing a dream: An in-depth look at Boeing 787 flight test
• Women of Aviation Week – March 5-12
• Aerotrek A240 aircraft
• Got STOL? Check out the Mackey SQ2
• LH Aviation’s LH-10 Ellipse – 175kts @ 4.75gph
• Boeing 787 carves it’s name during 19hr flight
• Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Jr.
• RCMP gets a Quest Kodiak!
• Avro Lancaster Flight
• The German
• Spitfires carrying beer kegs.
• USA’s First Jet Fighter
• Got Rocks?
• F-35B – Ship Suitability Testing
• B-17 Mid-Air Collision in 1943
• Boeing’s Plant 2 – End of an Era in Sept. 2010
• 1953 Canadian Pacific Flight – Vancouver to Tokyo
• Burt Rutan presentation
• Flying the Crack – Jeb Corliss
• Sept. 24, 2011 Procliamed Abbotsford Flying Club Day in BC!
• Canadian Pacific DC-8 Goes Supersonic in 1961.
• Learn to fly the Spitfire for $7500 Cdn
• Flight 1549 3D Reconstruction, Hudson River Ditching Jan 15, 2009
• Virtual Tour though USAF Museum.
• Movie about pilot Joe Moser’s story of WWII survival to premier in Bellingham
• John Mohr and his Stearman
• The Sound of Freedom, Merlin style!
• Pipistrel wins at Paris-Madrid Green Air Challenge
• The Beaver Song by the Fretless Bar Girls
• Supersonic Flight, Sonic Booms
• Jetman crosses the Grand Canyon
• Are Gyroplanes Deathtraps or Fun Flying Machines?
• Jeppesen makes a special chart for the Hudson Miracle Approach
• AFC in the News – Pie in the Sky
• WestJet introduces state-of-the-art money-saving feature
• Surviving (and Landing During) an In-Flight Cockpit Fire
• Hostage rescue C-130 Herc. w/rockets.
• Reno High Rollers RF-4 Phantoms
• Super Cub lands on top of a mountain.
• P-47’s in France
• F-16 Forced Landing
• US Navy’s X-47B Drone Flies
• Spitfire for Microsoft Flight Simulator X from A2A Simulations
• Ditching in the Gulf of Mexico
• Pictures from a Cub flying across the US
• Worlds Fastest Helicopter
• Canadian Aircraft Carrier Operations post WWII
• Air Canada Flash Mob at YVR – Merry Christmas!
• Top 10 Craziest Plane Landings Caught on Video
• The World’s 18 Strangest Airports: Gallery
• Quantas A380 Flight QF32 Exclusive
• Bob Hoover
• Virtual Cockpit tour – B-29 Enola Gay and P-51B Mustang
• Paul Allen’s Focke Wulf FW-190 flies!
• Restored Supermarine Seafire Mk15 – the only one flying!
• Welcome home… – T-Mobile Flash Mob
• Aviation Photography from Tyson V. Rininger
• Flypast for Dr. Steve.
• Terry Kelly – A Pittance of Time
• Turbine Toucan – muscle biplane.
• Safety Briefing with Style…
• Jerry Billing and his Spitfire
• Sixteen Spitfires in Formation!
• Boeing B-29 Superfortress “FIFI” flies again.
• Privately-owned Harrier
• RCAF Harvard II training video
• Canada buys 65 Lockheed-Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters
• Report on Aviation Fuels by Chevron
• Solar plane lands after 26-hour flight.
• How to start up an A-10C Warthog.
• New Flight Bag
• Red Bull Air Race in Ontario – Amazing Recovery
• GPS Review – AnywhereMap Quadra, Cdn$650
• Royal Newfoundland Air Force
• Chinese Army Shovel
• Cockpits on display.
• Flying into the US
• Canadian Pilot License Deadline Looming
• Pitching Deck Landings
• 1958 Flight to Vancouver
• Ford Tri-Motor Aerobatics
• 100th Anniversary of Powered Flight in BC
• New Garmin Portable GPS
• Martin Mars at Steveston & Coal Harbour
• Flying Hovercraft
• Clear Sky Chart
• Queen of the Skies – 747-8 First Flight
• Nice Paint Job for a 737
• Sopwith Camel and Supermarine Spitfire in Formation
• RIP Loran-C. Long live GPS!
• Mike Da Mustang
• You want to go fast?
• 83yr old Solos. You’re never too old to learn to fly!
• New show – Ice Pilots NWT
• North Myrtle Beach, S.C.
• Formation Flying – The Red Sparrows
• Antonov An-124 visit to Kelowna
• Clara Adams – The Maiden of Maiden
• Joe Leslie wins award at Oshkosh 2009.
• Bell X1 Cockpit Tour with Chuck Yeager
• Online Water Bombing Game
• Inspirational Pilot
• Concrete Fly-In
• Gilles Bay Fly-In
• Bob Robertson celebrates 50 years of flying.
• Basic Flying Rules
• ZHQ Gets some nose art…