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Meetings & Minutes The regular COPA Flight 45 meetings are scheduled for the second Wednesday of every month. The meetings are usually held at the Goderich Airport Terminal building, and start promptly at 7:30 p.m. Anyone interested in attending one of our meetings is always welcome. MINUTES
OF COPA FLIGHT 45 Quincy Bridge, Fred & Marilyn Bruinsma, Pat Pattison, Murray & Shirley Ward, Don & Margaret White. WELCOME Captain Fred welcomed everyone to the meeting.. MINUTES Moved by Marilyn Bruinsma and seconded by Shirley Ward that the minutes of November 9, 2011 be accepted. Carried FINANCES Purser Keith was absent. No outstanding bills. MEMBERSHIP Several of our members are enjoying the sunny south near Lakeland FL and area. Jim and Jane Farrell are again there to work with the volunteers for Sun n Fun. Keith is doing well and he and family joined us for the Christmas dinner. Good weather has allowed some members to fly to Brantford and Hanover for their first flight of 2012. Hope we get many more days to fly. WEBMASTER Don continues to add new information. COPA 45's website is well used. The webcams are fixed. 2012 EVENTS Sun n Fun March 27 – April 1 Lakeland FL CAE May 5-6 WHM -Hamilton Airport ON IPAT May 31- June 3 NW Ontario and Quebec QPAT Sept 1-3 Quebec- (Labour Day weekend) Rust Remover COPA Convention June 22-24 Hanover ON AirVenture July 23-29 Oshkosh WI OFF Feb 11 (Sat) WHM – 12:30 arrival 13:00 Dinner 15:00 Guided tour IFF July 17-21 High River/Calgary Stampede July 15 (Sun) Calgary – rodeo and chuckwagon finals COPA 45 EVENTS Fly In Breakfast – Sun. June 10 others to be confirmed later FLIGHT SCHOOL Chris Watson, FI from London and COPA 45 member has started a ground school at the terminal on Wed evenings. He has 6 students enrolled. NBD The Goderich NBD will be decommisioned along with 6 other ones across Canada. We received an email from Kevin Psutka with the information. There is no issue here as it has not worked since the tornado. Most aircraft landing here are RNAV equipped so is not a concern. The airport manager and town are pursuing a GPS approach for Goderich. We hope they are successful. NEXT MEETINGS Wed. Feb, 8, – Mid Winter Social Wed. March 14- ADJOURNMENT Moved by Fred Bruinsma and seconded by Pat Pattison that the meeting be adjourned. Carried. Members enjoyed tarts and cookies along with their coffee for a time of social. |