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| Some Notes on the History of the DHESC-FS |
by D. Lye |
[PDF Version] |
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| Refs - File of paperwork from Bill Tee, input from DCO logbooks etc |
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1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
2010-2019
2020-present
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2011 |
FIR training started, with D.Lye, for Bruno Marchesan & Claire Lemiski.
C.Basham is back from Dubai and doing some instructing again, along with Lye & Villalobos.
Check Pilots Art Kitching & Jorge Abando stepped down after many years, so current check pilots are J.Hakner, B.Beale, B.Marchesan & C.Lemiski.
At 2011 AGM, Richard Libby stepped down after 18 years as Treasurer (and left the company soon after), and B.Marchesan took over as Treasurer.
Rates revised again, to $105/115 for 150M, and $125/140 for 172M (with/without ab-initio training).
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2012 |
Both Bruno Marchesan & Claire Lemiski gained Class 4 FIR, including flight tests with John Chandler.
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2013 |
H.Villalobos retired from the company, but as a retiree is still a club member, & instructor.
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2015 |
FIR training started, with D.Lye, for Tiago Dos Santos, who had earlier completed his CPL in our club.
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2016
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In January John Hakner retired after over 40 years; Graham Elliott is the new Chairman of the flying section of the DHESC.
RAJ entered service in April, after engine overhaul at Orillia and a huge amount of work by Alan Vincent & his team, using a temporary spot in Bay 5, to thoroughly inspect it and make repairs where needed.
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2017
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In February RAJ was completely stripped and repainted in the Bay 7 paint shop. It was desperately in need of new paint. Unfortunately some of the chemical paint stripped did some damage to some of the transparencies, but they are still serviceable.
RAJ was flown to Oshkosh by Hal Sabeti-Mehr, Adam Loney, & Mark Carter. This was the first such trip in our club, which needed special approval.
An agreement was established to allow RAJ to be used for training at Brampton, under the BFC OC, mainly for the benefit of Class 4 instructors in our club (mainly Ben Beale).
In August, Tiago Dos Santos moved up from Class 4 to Class 3 and started instructing in our club with David Lye (who had been sole instructor since 2012.
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2018
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Ben Beale was hired by Brampton as a part-time Class 4 instructor, and did some instructing using BFC planes, but not with RAJ because the agreement with BFC expired in August.
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2019
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RAJ was flown to Oshkosh for the second time, by Hal Sabeti-Mehr, Adam Loney, & Deb Teelucksingh. This was the first such trip in our club, which needed special approval.
On 1 June, the Dash 8 product line, and the DHC name, were sold to Longview; but the DHESC and the flying club continue, with both Bombardier and DHC employees eligible.
Ben Beale did do some instructing using RAJ at Brampton, with Andreas Casal, and Andreas did his first solo in RAJ at Brampton in October (the first time there has been a first solo in our club away from YZD)
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