HPAC/ACVL

Hi John,

in response to the following quote:

'' The protocol should not make recommendations. Either make a requirement or not.''

For liability reasons, we modified a lot of HPAC language to ...

Bonjour Instructeurs et amis,

vous devriez avoir maintenant reçu notre proposition de nouveau
protocole pré-vol sécuritaire biplace. Comme dans plusieurs secteurs
de l'industrie, nous croyons ...

Hello instructors and friends,

you should have received by now our proposal for a new tandem pre-flight safety protocol. As in many sectors of industry, we felt that the time has come to formalize ...

Hi Fred,

the new website is progressing. And as I am writting this, the business manager and I are working on a paper newsletter which all members will receive just as the website goes live. This n ...

We are frantically working on the website and will post a job offer for the position of content editor a.s.a.p.
The offer will go ''in house'' first. We believe that it would be ideal to have someone ...

Hi Alain,

interesting idea! To be honest, I have never thought of that.
I will bring it up with the Aeroclub and/or the Parachuting Association.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Domagoj Juretic
H ...

Hey Quinn,

For now we don't seem to meet one of their criteria which is to be a sport recognized by Sport Canada.
They didn't mention this in our orginal discussions.

Since we are nowhere close ...

Our Insurance Chair, Greeg Humphries is currently looking at some European insurers who do cover instructors for liability (in Europe).
He has to see if this is exportable to Canada.

To be followe ...

Hi guys,

the Canadian Amateur Sports Network is a cool new commercial iniative that would provide a new cable channel specialized in amateur sports. Their official criteria is that the sports that ...

It's a pros and cons proposition, that's for sure.
And some of the cons could definitely fall on our (HPAC and our school owners) laps.

Some of the pros could be grants, of course. But another one ...

Potentially being eligible to all sorts of grants and support (paid trainors for our elite pilots for example) from the federal (and in some cases provincail governments).

This is a numbers game, a ...

Hi guys,

to be recognized as an official sport, we need to have 3000 members! Sad

It's not hopeless tough. Some associations give memberships to tandem students.
(Remember, TC requires them t ...

With the voted PRD we've sent to James, Troy and the web team the situation is really clear.
You guys are mandated to make it available on the web site.
Every member will have the choice. Isn't that ...

In my case Air is a second magazine and is optional.
With no lag time and no pasword protection, I see no reason to renew my optional subscription.
We will ask our editor how many Air subscriptions ...

James thought that it might be a good idea to have a short lag time to make sure that members and subscribers get a chance to to get the issue before it was made available to all. Then the PDF could b ...

Starting from Rob's suggestion,

the HPAC BOD has decided to have AIR available electronically to every member who prefers a paperless version.
Those members will either receive it by email or it w ...

Hi Rob,
please permit me to answer point by point as to not miss anything.

It might be worth having a discussion about the recently revealed "Come Fly With Me Campaign." From ...

Hi Rob,
excellent suggestion. So much so that it was well noted when we met at HPAC's ADM in Pemberton.
We will definitely look into it with James Keller our Editor and Troy Wi ...

Hello Rob,
who knows you might be right. But if you are, we probably shouldn't trust your judgment more than ours. Wink

I might be unsensitive myself, to your comment ...