Air Exercise, March 30
CFBXA took the skies on Good Friday to help add important currency certifications for Dallen (Nav) and Ted (Spotter). Target(s) was successfully found. Thanks to Howard and Peter for the target placement.
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Air Exercise, March 20
CGVBA was yet again called into action. Dallen required flights (DF/ELT) to count toward his currency & Wolfgang needed to add to his CASARA flying hours. Special thanks to the Spotters for steeping up to the plate to make this [...]
Air Exercise – March 10
CGVBA, Pilot Wolfgang, was again called into training action for two flights totaling 3.1 hrs of flight time. Why? Both Navs, Howard & Martin, required specific flight patterns to maintain their "currency". Wolfgang added to his necessary Pilot hours. Our [...]
Military SAREX 2018
Island CASRA units were actively involved in the Military SAREX over the period Feb 26 - Mar 01. Some 16 flights were planned with 7 being allocated to CASARA Nanaimo. Our fearless leader, Jim, was the Search Co-ordinator/Manager for [...]
Air Exercise – Feb 24
A break in the weather allowed 2 training flights using two aircraft; CFBXA & CGVBA. GVBA is owned by Nanaimo flying Club and was piloted by Wolfgang - his first official flight as a CASARA Pilot. Congratulations Wolfgang. The Exercise [...]
MILITARY SAREX 2018
CASARA Nanaimo were active participants in this multi-day exercise, both in the air and on the land. Originally scheduled to undertake 7 flights over three days we managed to successfully complete 3 flights. The others being cancelled because of [...]
Feb Training: Wilderness Fire Lighting
In the third of his Survival Series ( aka; F, F, S, S, F) WO Dave Knubley (SARTech, 442 Comox) coached some 20+ members from CASARA Nanaimo & Victoria in the art of wilderness fire lighting. While the weather cooperated [...]
Sealed Containers at High Altitude
PEP Air Safety Bulletin 2018 – 01 Subject: Sealed Containers at High Altitudes Background: A potentially very serious incident resulted from the opening of a thermos at high altitude (17,000' +) which contained very hot water. Upon opening [...]
Tsunami/Earthquake Alerts & Beyond
In addition to the 'traditional' role of Search & Rescue, PEPAir is one of several agencies that will most likely be asked to assist in the event of an actual Tsunami and/or Earthquake. As such, we PEPAir/CASARA Nanaimo could well [...]