COPA Flights NewsFlash

Obstructions Near Airports Survey
June 11, 2012

Our goal is to provide valuable input from our members to Transport Canada with regards to cellular telephone and communications towers, wind turbines and other obstructions that are proposed to be constructed within close proximity of an aerodrome. Please click on the link. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Thank you.

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/734088/copa-obstructions

Press Release

                                                                                                           May 16, 2012

Dear COPA Flight Captains,
To distribute to your members,

Please watch this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEm-WpO6qjI&feature=youtu.be  and read the attached letter and then contact your MPP and MP to get them involved in raising the profile of the impact of Wind Farms on aviation. Use the information provided in the letter and the position paper included with it but put into your own words what you feel is necessary to turn around this significant issue.

Collingwood airport is just one example of the issue. With 7000 more turbines to be erected in Ontario alone, there are and will be other airports impacted by the lack of protection for aviation.

(Read letter from Kevin Psutka to Mr. Jim Wilson, MPP Simcoe-Grey -.pdf file)

Kevin Psutka
President and CEO
Canadian Owners and Pilots Association
71 Bank St, 7th floor
Ottawa, ON K1P 5N2

Ph 613-236-4901 X102
Mb 613-878-4901
Fx 613-236-8646

www.copanational.org