When a fishing boat capsized off Tofino in the early hours of June 15th there was an urgent need to transport Ground Search Managers from their east coast locations to the accident site. JRCC tasked CASARA Nanaimo to provide this [...]
June 02, Spotter crews from both CASARA Victoria & Nanaimo attended a Military Spotter Training exercise at YCD. Two flights were undertaken to accommodate the 14 eager participants. The Buffalo aircraft was crewed by members of 422 Squadron, out of [...]
· PEP Air volunteers Rick Dendys, Rick Ayotte and William Bing passed away on July 07, 1996 during a Search and Rescue mission near Nelson B.C. aboard aircraft C-GHWH for a missing aircraft out of Nelson, BC. They spotted a glint [...]
In addition to the previously recorded activities April continued to be a busy month. April 14, Howard led a team at Qualicum Airport participating in a day long exercise with the Air Cadets. CASARA providing an entertaining introduction to Ground [...]
All CASARA members have to maintain continuous minimum levels of training. There are both land and air based requirements, “Currency”. These Currency requirements have to maintained on a rolling 12 month basis for each level of membership; Pilots, Navigators [...]
April 23rd saw the fourth Air Exercise for the month, helping boost our available Nav roster. Unfortunately our joint Exercise with CASARA Victoria, on the 29th, was cancelled due to poor weather/flying conditions. This was doubly unfortunate as 4, possibly [...]
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Three flights were undertaken on the 6th, 9th & 12th. Two by CGIEO and the third by CFBXA. These air exercises provided currency requirements for two Navigators; Howard & Peter.
MARCH31, 2018 TMMS is ready for viewing! (CMS Replacement Software) Hi Everyone, The TMMS Software to replace the CMS software is finally picking up momentum. There is still a lot of work to do ( mostly in the training ) as [...]
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