India Four Two
11th Oct 2017, 05:02
After a very successful Thanksgiving Wave Camp at Cowley (CYYM) - one glider managed a climb to FL325 - one of our pilots asked a question about the local airspace structure and altitude limits for uncontrolled airspace*
There were differences of opinion and references to the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs). One member helpfully posted the following:
Before you go about reading the CARs, you should read how the Calgary Flying Club introduces the regs in their ground school:
Section I: No pilot or pilots, or person or persons acting on the direction or suggestion or supervision of a pilot or pilot may try, or attempt to try or make, or make attempt to try to comprehend or understand any or all, in whole or in part of the herein mentioned, Aviation Regulations, except as authorized by the administrator or an agent appointed by, or inspected by, the Administrator.
Section II: If a pilot, or group of associate pilots becomes aware of, or realized, or detects, or discovers, or finds that he or she, or they, are or have been beginning to understand the Aviation Regulations, they must immediately, within three (3) days notify, in writing, the Administrator.
Section III: Upon receipt of the above-mentioned notice of impending comprehension, the Administrator shall immediately rewrite the Aviation Regulations in such a manner as to eliminate any further comprehension hazards.
Section IV: The Administrator may, at his or her discretion, require the offending pilot or pilots to attend remedial instruction in Aviation Regulations until such time that the pilot is too confused to be capable of understanding anything.
* The question was not about the airspace at the wave camp, where we have a wave-flying block up to FL280, with clearances above that given by Edmonton Centre.
There were differences of opinion and references to the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs). One member helpfully posted the following:
Before you go about reading the CARs, you should read how the Calgary Flying Club introduces the regs in their ground school:
Section I: No pilot or pilots, or person or persons acting on the direction or suggestion or supervision of a pilot or pilot may try, or attempt to try or make, or make attempt to try to comprehend or understand any or all, in whole or in part of the herein mentioned, Aviation Regulations, except as authorized by the administrator or an agent appointed by, or inspected by, the Administrator.
Section II: If a pilot, or group of associate pilots becomes aware of, or realized, or detects, or discovers, or finds that he or she, or they, are or have been beginning to understand the Aviation Regulations, they must immediately, within three (3) days notify, in writing, the Administrator.
Section III: Upon receipt of the above-mentioned notice of impending comprehension, the Administrator shall immediately rewrite the Aviation Regulations in such a manner as to eliminate any further comprehension hazards.
Section IV: The Administrator may, at his or her discretion, require the offending pilot or pilots to attend remedial instruction in Aviation Regulations until such time that the pilot is too confused to be capable of understanding anything.
* The question was not about the airspace at the wave camp, where we have a wave-flying block up to FL280, with clearances above that given by Edmonton Centre.