President’s Notes by Ben McCarty
Spring has finally arrived
followed closely by the
2009 ARAMC which was
held in Halifax on March
25, 26 & 27th. This was a
light at the end of a long
winter tunnel.
The conference was without doubt another great
success, led by Uli Huber
and his very capable and
experienced committee
members. The 2009 conference theme was
“Maintaining High
Standards”
The TC panel heard
presentation on AME Canada Update Fatigue Risk
Management, 406 MH,
ELTS and a variety of other items. Ben McCarty was
the moderator of the TC
panel with Jeff Philipps,
Chief Standards and Dave
Alston Manager of Maintenance and Manufacturing
in Atlantic Region..
The afternoon presentation
of the first day had * Tire
Care & Maintenance—
Goodyear Tire (Robert
Robinson) * Aging Aircraft Wiring, Neil Back
Cona. * The AME Association Annual General
Meeting rounded off the
first day.
Friday saw an early
presentation by * Peter
MacPherson on ‘SMS
Start-up’ (Phase I-3). *
The “Switch to 406MHZ
ELTS” presented by
Carole Smith, Chief, NonFederal SAR programs. *
Finally Brian Card of Atlantic Avionics Ltd. Gave
an excellent presentation
on 406 ELT Installation
and Testing.
The Annual Awards Banquet was the usually main
event which witnessed the
following recipients being
honored by their peers in
being presented the following awards:
Earl Blellney/Aviall
Award which honors the
recipient for outstanding
performance in Aircraft
Maintenance. The recipient
was Jason Crowell who
has demonstrated the highest quality for his profession and his support to the
industry.
The Roger Richard Memorial Award is presented to
a retired AME from the
region that has shown excellent performance during
his career. This award
went to Roy Bears who
recently retired from TSB
and has shown dedication
and outstanding performance during his career.
The Newfoundland Govt.,
Air Services Award is
presented annually to a
company or individual
who has shown outstanding interest and support to
the AME Association or
ARAMC in the Atlantic
Region. This year’s recipient is Brian Pike who has
been an outstanding supporter of the ARAMC and
worked so hard over the
past years is making our
conferences a success each
year.
Bursary 2009
The 2009 AME Association Bursary of $1000.00
was won by Bahman Farsi
Dooraki who attended NS
Community College, in
Dartmouth, N.S.
The hotel served an excellent dinner and Jimmy
Flynn provided firs class
entertainment for the
awards banquet guests.
The sponsors for our conference were extremely
supportive and our sincere
gratitude goes to all of
them who provided donations, gifts and sponsored
specific events, coffee
breaks, Thursdays lunch,
Banquet entertainment etc.
We are also very thankful
for the companies who
displayed their services
and products at our Exhibit
Hall and those who made
technical presentations
during our two day program.
Fatigue Risk
Management FRMS
FRMS has been an issue of
discussion by TCCA at the
CARAC Technical committee meetings in Ottawa
for a number of years.
Everyone is in agreement,
that conducting technical
tasks during periods of
serious fatigue is not acceptable.
Fatigue is a factor in everyone’s life no matter what
June 2009
His or her calling in life
may be, this is experienced by people in all
walks of life from surgeons to common laborer
and all in between.
The trick is determining
when fatigue is a threat to
successful performance of
a tasks. It is different for
every person, everyone
tires and recovers at individual rates, which makes
the regulation of fatigue
extremely difficult.
To make this more difficult to regulate, fatigue is
a shared responsibility.
Shared by the employee
and the employer.
The off-duty activities,
lack of sleep, social
stress, part-time work,
excessive social activity
are factors that can only
by controlled by the employee.
Inside this issue:
President’s Report by
Ben McCarty
ARAMC by
Mel Crewe
Sobeys Inc.
Aviation Dept.
799 Barnes Dr.
Halifax Intl. Airport
Halifax, NS B2T 1R8
Tel: 902-873-3997
Fax: 902-873-4602
Dario Mazzorana
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On the other hand, poor planning by the employer, rushing job completion, understaffing, poor working conditions
and not allowing for sufficient rest periods are controlled by the employer.
TC has recently released a new Staff Instruction (SUR-007) released in Oct. 15, 2008, which defines how TCCA
should conduct assessment of Fatigue Risk in Air Operations and Aircraft Maintenance. This document would be
used as guidance for the TIs in the application of regulations, auditing etc.
They also released an Advisory Circular (SUR-001) on Oct. 15, 2008, which describes the development and implementation of FRMS. This would be meant for guidance for the industry.
However, the new rules for FRMS (CAR 573-16 or 17) have not been released as yet and are still in the Notice of
Proposed Amendment (NPA) stage, as far as I know, and will be introduced into regulation this fall.
It appears that the Regulatory steps are not in order,
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The NPA and Rule should be first
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Followed by an Advisory Circular for the industry
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Then followed by a Staff Instruction for the TIs
This SI is a 42 page document, which has caused considerable concern from several associations as well as some
consulting and training firms.
It would appear, that TC plans on amending regulations to introduce a Civil Aviation Fatigue Risk Management
Model.
TC expects and encourages organizations to incorporate FRMS concepts described in this SI in anticipation of further regulatory changes that have not been written or published yet.
The author of the FRMS Staff Instruction indicated that I should pay more attention to the Advisory Circular than
the SI.
The AC clearly states that the “TC FRMS Assessment Guide SUR-007 Staff Instruction” can be used to interpret
the expectations for compliance. Therefore, I would like to point out a few items in the Staff Instruction for your
interest and possibly for clarity.
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No one is opposed to FRMS—but it should be treated like any other HPIAM concern with common sense by
both employee & employer.
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Is there any convincing reason why FRMS has received so much demand for regulatory activity?

Is there proof that fatigue causes an inordinate amount of incidents—say more than lack of training or lack of
supervision?
I urge you to locate the Staff Instruction SUR-007 on the TC web as well as the Advisory Circular SUR-001 on the
web. You will find them a very interesting read and may get you ready for the new regulation that should be
presented to the public in the fall of 2009.
Atlantic
Turbines
International
PO Box 150
Summerside, PEI
C1N 4P6
Tel: 902-888-4718
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AME CANADA
This the topic deals with AME Canada and it developing role in possibly becoming responsible for the Administration of
AME Licensing and Training.
This presentation is to provide you with the pros and cons of AME CANADA’s proposal to assume responsibility for
licensing adminstration . This is not a sales pitch by any means, just an information session.
I would firstly like to bring you up to date on the progress of AME Canada since the last Conference and subsequent
newsletter articles.
In Flight 2010—which was a Strategic Plan for Civil Aviation in Canada, which was released in April 2006 by the Director General Merlin Preuss, Transport Canada and Quote “the future we are building towards is one where industry
operates at the maximum level of delegation possible.”
A sample of this delegation was the success of CBAA assuming the administration responsibilities for 604 Operators and
has been considered to be satisfactory.
It is with this in mind that CFAMEA met with Mr. Preuss and Mr. Don Sherritt here in Halifax to discuss the possibility
of CFAMEA and others taking the responsibility of the administration of the AME licensing system. TC encourages us
to continue with our proposal and when ready to submit a presentation to TCCA.
Over the last two and a half years, the AME Associations (CFAMEA) had a number of meetings with all of the regions
as well as with CAMC and ACCC.
CAMC-Canadian Aircraft Maintenance Council
ACCC-Association of Canadian Community Colleges
At this time I would like to make it perfectly clear that this region, which was represented by Uli Huber and/or me, felt
that the licensing system should maintain the status quo.
Our position was overruled my majority vote of the other regions.
During this period CFAMEA worked with a consulting firm in Toronto to assist us in preparing a suitable presentation to
TCCA.
It should be pointed out that not all of the regions were in complete agreement on a variety of matters. Finally, in 2007
we reached an agreement in Ottawa that CFAMEA, CAMC and ACCC would form a new entity called AME CANADA.
In 2008 we met with TCCA and they indicated an interest in our proposal to administer the AME licensing system as
directed in CARs 566 Div 1 and Div 2.
The intent of the “administration of CAR 566’’ is to reduce the direct involvement of Transport Canada but not its authority.
We were not asking that our proposal would include changing existing regulations or the enforcement of present regulations.
Proposed rule changes would take the same path as they do today—working through the CARAC process.
The Structure of AME Canada would be a partnership of CFAMEA, CAMC and ACCC, each with its separate areas of
responsibility controlled by a board of directors.
CFAMEA’s role would be the administration and delivery of the licensing system.
CAMAC would provide the infrastructure and supply the administration role and possibly the ATO audit work, while
ACCC would be responsible for PLA and Examinations.
Each of the partners would like to have control of the enity and this has been a bone of contention since the outset. Probably more discussions will follow but the most acceptable to most — is that All governance decisions would require
90% agreement — which would require total consensus by all partners.
There have been discussions with the other partners on the issue of “governance control” — It was originally proposed by
CFAMEA, that the AMEs have the controlling vote on any issue. The other partners, CAMC in particular, have stated that
they cannot accept this and would only be comfortable with equal partnership — thus the 90% vote factor.
AME Canada Directors would not hold positions with Partners Boards (CAMC, ACCC or CFAMEA)
We have plans of meeting with TC this spring to discuss funding for the development of the proposal. We will be discussing funding for the advancement of this venture. Probably looking at funding in the 70-80,000 dollar grant or seed
money,
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AME CANADA….
This initial funding would be used to determine if we have a sound and well supported proposal to present to TCCA. But
most important of all, is to determine if the proposal is acceptable to All of the stake-holders—meaning the majority of
all AMEs, all of the ACCC and associated ATOs as well as acceptable to CAMC Board of Directors.
The Safety Partnership Programs Framework, A Civil Aviation Directive released in the fall of 2008, has made it a requirement ‘That an organization applying to have Partnership Approval as a delegated authority — MUST HAVE CONDUCTED AND DOCUMENTED THE RESULTS OF INITIAL CONSULTATIONS WITH ITS MEMEBERSHIP
AND AFFECTED STAKEHOLDERS ON THE NOTION OF A SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND DELEGATED ACTIVITIES, AND THERE IS A MAJORITY OF MEMBERS AND AFFECTED STAKEHOLDERS INAGREEMENT
TO PURSUE THE PROPOSED SAFETY PARTNERSHIP.
In other words, you will have the final say if AME Canada proceeds, as will ACCC and the colleges and the Directors of
CAMC.
Each of the partners will be faced with individual changes to their membership in general.
The major changes that effects us of course, is the cost of operating AME CANADA in the future and where the funding
will come from.
Currently TC provides all of services we have mentioned which is vastly subsidized by the federal government. In the
event AME CANADA takes over this service, there will be no subsidies but rather the funding will come from the shareholders.
We now pay $40.00 every six years for license renewal, granted a ridiculously cheap licensing fee. The actual cost of
this service being provided by a third party would probably be in the 80 to 100.00 annual fees.
A clear winner would be Transport Canada, in that, they, would have:
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Delegated the administration of the AME Licensing and Training system and be left in an oversight position.
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With the associated administration expense being transferred to the stake holders in AME Canada
One of the possibilities that have encouraged us to make this move, is that, if AME CANADA does not take the initiative and proceed with the application to administer the license, that there is no doubt that someone else will.
I believe that TC is very much in favor of the Partnership of CFAMEA, CAMC and ACCC, and I doubt if an individual
application by any one of the partners would please TC.
TC wants to be certain that any change is sustainable and will provide the equivalent service delivery that we currently
receive from the Government today.
There is a good possibility that if nothing was done by anyone, TCCA would continue with the status quo, possibly increasing fees to try to recover the actual cost of licensing and training administration.
Eventually, it is our intention that all AMEs will definitely have a say in arriving at a decision of how this will proceed.
When asked how many AMEs support AME Canada to continue with the proposal to Administer CAR566. Div. I & II.
A show of hands indicated that the Region supports the status Quo but would support AME Canada’s proposal rather
than have an individual 3rd party administer 566.
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CARAC PROCESS
Some discussions on the CARAC process will be initiated later this spring when a Focus Group for considering a
“CARAC Web-based consultation system” will meet to discuss a TC proposal to allow for web based discussions on
regulatory changes. CFAMEA should be part of this discussions on regulatory changes. CFAMEA should be part of this
discussion process and it is my personal opinion that only minor changes should be web discussed. Regulatory changes
of any substance should follow the current process. That discussion is for another day.
HPIAM
There was some interest in a possible initial HPIAM Course. This course is mandatory and must be presented in a class
room environment.
CAMC may consider presenting an initial HPIAM course in conjunction with the annual “CAMC Forum” which will be
held at the Westin Hotel in Halifax on Oct. 21 thru 23.
Please note information in the publication and advise us if you are interested.
2009-Election of Officers of AME Assoc. (Atlantic)
The following directors were elected to serve for 2009 to 2011.
President: Ben McCarty
Secretary: Dan Dackombe
Director: Jacques Richard
Director: Mel Crewe
The following directors will serve for 2009-2010
Vice President: Uli Huber
Treasury:
Jason Crowell
Director:
Dave Hall
Director:
Bob Pardy
Newsletter
There was discussion to determine how the members would like to have their newsletters delivered: By Mail (hard-copy)
or Electronically by E-Mail.
In order to best satisfy you we will need to have you complete the enclosed question form and return to us.
ARAMC 2010
The 2010 ARAMC will be held at the Beausjour Hotel in Moncton, N.B. on April 14, 15 and 16th (Wed., Thurs., &
Fri.). The conference will be chaired by Jacques Richard, who I am sure would like to hear from you if you would like to
assist him and his committee.
ARAMC2011
The 2011 ARAMC is to be held in St. John’s on April 27, 28 and 29th (Wed., Thurs., Fri.) Mel Crewe will be looking
after the 2011 event and is probably already busy getting it ready.
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Halifax International Airport - 549 Barnes Road—Enfield,
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Tel (902) 873-3534—Fax (902) 873-4531
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News from the Rock - By Mel Crewe
Hello fellow A.M.E.’s, apprentices and Corporate members, it is time for an update from this end of the rock. Since my
last newsletter, there has been an incredible turn of events in the aviation industry in this area.
On March 12, 2009, the province and the country came face to face with tragedy as one of the offshore helicopters was
forced to do an emergency landing in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. Shortly after 0900, Cougar Helicopters Flight 491, (C-GZCH), a Sikorsky S-92A helicopter departed St. John’s, Newfoundland en route to the Hibernia
and Sea Rose offshore oilfield production platforms with a crew of two and sixteen passengers. While the aircraft was
cruising at approximately 9000 feet ASL, a problem was encountered with the main gearbox oil pressure indication. The
crew consulted with operations officials at the base and recommended an immediate return to St. John’s. As the aircraft
descended to approximately 700 – 800 feet, contact with the aircraft was lost following a Mayday message advising they
were going to do an Emergency landing in the ocean. A search and rescue program was put into action. Upon receipt of
the Mayday call, a Provincial Airlines offshore reconnaissance King Air 200 responded to the call and reported seeing 2
soles in survival suits in the water and a life raft, as well as debris from the helicopter. Another S-92A was dispatched
from the base within minutes and was on site shortly thereafter. The crew recovered the lone survivor, 27 year old Robert Decker of St. John’s and the body of Allison Maher. The search continued for the next 24 – 36 hours with no success
and news of the crash flashed across the television screens and radio stations worldwide. The full impact of this terrible
tragedy was being felt by all the Cougar Helicopter family and all the victims families.
A full investigation was launched immediately as officials of the Transport Safety Board, Cougar Helicopters, Husky Oil
and other offshore companies began plans on the recovery of the victims bodies as well as retrieve the wreckage of Cougar 491.The offshore supply vessel Atlantic Osprey was dispatched to the site and with the aid of two underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles, they were successful in retrieving the victims of the crash over the next couple of days. The
Main Rotor blades as well as the fuselage was brought to the surface and transported by the offshore supply vessel to St.
John’s where the wreckage was placed in a hanger at St. John’s International Airport where TSB officials began their
inept evaluation of the accident. The loss of Main Gearbox oil pressure was a starting point and upon closer investigation, two studs in the oil filter housing were found to be fractured causing gearbox oil to leak overboard. A recent Service Bulletin was issued on the titanium studs and requested operators to comply within 1250 hours or 12 months. The
aircraft in this accident had logged 177 hours since this bulletin was issued. All S-92A helicopters worldwide were subsequently grounded until completion of this Airworthiness Directive which was issued by the Federal Aviation Administration. Practically all operators have complied with the AD requirements and have the aircraft operational.
Cougar Helicopters, in cooperation with the oil companies have suspended all helicopter operations offshore until the
accident investigation has been completed. A Sikorsky S-61N helicopter has been brought to St. John’s as a Search and
Rescue standby aircraft.
The magnitude of this disaster has certainly affected us all and we offer our thoughts and prayers to all the victims and
their families. A date has not been announced when there will be a resumption in service.
This is certainly a difficult time for all our friends at Cougar Helicopters and we keep them in our thoughts and prayers
as they receive counselling and support.
In other operations around the airport, Air Labrador announced a few weeks ago that they are suspending their De Havilland Dash 8 operations effective April 30, 2009. This shutdown will have a tremendous impact on the aircraft maintenance field in this area. In conversation with Maintenance Supervisor, Dennis Lindahl, he advised that ten (10) engineers, two (2) Stores personnel and one (1) technical records clerk as well as contract personnel would be directly affected by the shutdown. The crews are currently completing a “C” check on one of the Dash 8’s and is expecting completion by month end. The crews affected by this closure are awaiting word from other local operators on future employment. We wish them luck. Air Labrador is operating Beech 1900D’s, DHC-6 Twin Otters and a Cessna Caravan in Labrador.
My next stop on my airport visits was at Provincial Airlines Limited where I spoke with the new Director of Maintenance, Trevor Knox. He has recently accepted the position and replaces Everett Sturge, who has moved on to the corporate side with Provincial Aviation Maintenance Services Inc... We wish him well in his new job. We met at the conference in Halifax a few weeks ago. Trevor previously worked at Sky Service in Montreal before joining PAL. He brings
a wealth of knowledge and experience to the new job and personnel. The company operate 5 Dash 8’s on their scheduled
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News from the Rock...
service, 2 Saab 340’s on their Quebec North Shore operation based out of Montreal. The maintenance division is certainly busy and is recognized as an approved Beechcraft Service Center and more work is planned for the near future. The
Stores personnel have recently completed a major modernization program. We welcome Debbie Ingram to the position
of Inventory Control Manager; she has a background in the automotive industry but is willing to apply her skills to the
new position. She will be a tremendous asset to Wayne Green, the company’s Purchasing Supervisor. Myles Caines,
Quality assurance Manager, Carson Goodyear, Special Projects Manager, Dean Rice and Linda Oake, Q.A. Supervisors
and Robert Glasgow, Maintenance and Production Manager are kept busy running a rather extensive maintenance operation. Keep up the good work folks!
My next stop was to talk with the boys at the Newfoundland and Labrador Government Air Services, where I spoke with
Engineers Peter Snow, Ralph Roberts, Dave Walsh and Avionics engineer David Mercer. Maintenance Supervisor Jeff
Pollett was out of the office. The boys are currently working out of the Canadian Coast Guard hanger as their space at
Hanger # 2 has been seconded by the Transportation Safety Board to investigate the recent Sikorsky S-92A crash. The
area has been totalled sealed off and security is really tight. Their temporary arrangement is working out quite well. The
crew maintain the Beech King Air 350 Air Ambulance aircraft. Other news events are the arrival of their new Air Ambulance aircraft for St. Anthony and the recent announcement by the province that the update of the water bomber fleet has
been put on hold for the time being and negotiations with Bombardier and other companies are ongoing. Updates will be
available in the next newsletter.
My next contact was with the Canadian Coast Guard Helicopter Section where I spoke with Senior Helicopter Engineer
Tom Foley. The boys are kept fairly busy with the BO-105 assigned to the icebreaker on the Northeast coast and the other BO-105 operating from the St. John’s base. Guy Beazley, Bill Tucker and Tim Sheppard have been busy travelling
and crewing these aircraft and when these aircraft are back at the base, they take care of the major inspections and modifications. The base is also supported by Avionics Engineers James Avery and Tim Holt from the Moncton base of Transport Canada Aircraft Services. They come to St. John’s periodically to complete Avionics mods and repairs. As the
spring season is here, crews also are monitoring operations at the seal hunt on the provinces northern and northeast
coasts. Have a safe spring and start making plans for another Arctic adventure.
Over at Hanger # 2, I spoke with Dave Hollett, Director of Maintenance at Prince Edward Air’s, St. John’s operation.
Dave and his team of engineers, Dwight Collins, Jason Lundrigan, Phillip Butler, Stuart Roberts, Neil Taylor and Morris
Murray are busy maintaining the Saab-340 and the Beech King Air 200 cargo aircraft. They operate from space leased
from Provincial Airlines Limited.
My next contact was with base engineer Max Chapman at Universal Helicopters Newfoundland Limited. The boys at the
UHNL base on Majors Path, adjacent to the St. John’s International Airport remain fairly busy with the base aircraft, a
Bell 206L supplying work required by the provincial government and also maintaining a private Bell 206L belonging to
Quinlan Brothers fisheries. At the Gander base, Keith Ball continues to maintain the two aircraft based there. Over in
Pasadena on the beautiful west coast, Dave Evans and Craig Urquhart maintain the fleet comprised of 1 A-Star, 1 Bell
206L and a Bell 407. The company’s main base is located on the north side of the Goose Bay airport.
Vice-President and Director of Maintenance Norm Noseworthy has his maintenance staff busy on the Goose. Terry
Hutchings is the Maint. Manager, Duke Quinlan, Quality Assurance Manager and are supported by engineers Brian
Dooley, Mark Foley, Steve Penney, Perry Lethbridge, Rayner Kemming, Jason Simms and Michael Snow. Chris Organ
has recently been hired as an apprentice. Ron Cashin is in charge of Technical Records and Purchasing Manager in
Stores and is assisted by Scott Norman. There are presently four 407’s, one A-Star and two 206L’s at Goose and six aircraft have been dispatched to work in the Arctic on the Polar Continental Shelf contract. Their main base is in Resolute
Bay and is working at various locations in the north. While operations are a bit slow at this time of year, it is shaping up
to be a very busy summer with lots of activity in the mining sector and hydro development. Good luck fellas and have a
safe summer.
My next contact was with Bob Hutchings, Maintenance Supervisor at Kelowna Flight Craft at hanger # 4. Bob, Wally
Hynes and Dave Cummings are kept busy on the Purolator/ Canada Post contract maintaining the Boeing 727. They also
perform some third party maintenance on some charter company aircraft such as Sun Wing and Canadian North. Another
duty is maintaining the Flair Air Boeing 727.
My next contact was with our old reliable Transport Canada Inspector Charlie Warren. Charlie, Superintendant of
Maintenance and Manufacturing at the St. John’s Transport Canada Centre and his team of inspectors have been very
busy.
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since our last newsletter. Gary Perry, Larry Drover and Keith Parsons are key players in regulating our maintenance
crews in this neck of the woods. He also informs me that the reorganization process is still being talked about within
Transport Canada but nothing is happening. The other program which seems to be the focus in Transport is Safety Management Systems. With the recent Cougar helicopter accident, Charlie and Larry Drover had to do a standard base inspection of the company. That is about all the news from the TC side of things.
My final contact late this evening was with Brian Kendell, Projects Manager with Provincial Aviation Maintenance Services Inc... Since our last update, things have been extremely busy and projects mentioned in the last newsletter are being carried out. The first DH Dash 8-102 aircraft from the Department of National Defence is being rolled off the line as
I write this article. The staff has completed a 20 year mid life inspection/ “D” check / Interior refurbishment and discrepancies corrected. The next aircraft is due about June 15/09. A total of four aircraft are to be completed on this contract.
Another contract that was recently completed is the upgrade and discrepancies to be complied with on the Regional Security System for the Barbados government on the C-26 Surveillance aircraft. This aircraft departed St. John’s a few
days ago heading back to the island of Barbados. The first Bombardier CL-415 arrives next week for the conversion to a
Maritime Patrol Aircraft. It will be equipped with Nose radar, FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-red) as well as other mission systems. This project is expected to be completed within a seven month period. Two aircraft have arrived from the
United Arab Emirates, the De Havilland Dash 8-300 aircraft are to be modified for Maritime Patrol and System integration. These aircraft will also be Multi mission capable. As long as the crews continue to deliver a superior product, the
future looks extremely bright for P.A.M.S.I... The company have hired 15 technicians and engineers thus far and are still
in the market for more maintenance personnel. Brian is supported by a great staff which include Paul Paschke, Quality
Assurance Manager; Shawn Hickey, Avionics Manager; Brendan Power, General Manager; Jody Garland, Production
Manager; Ralph Legrow, Structures Supervisor; Debbie King, Procurement Officer and Everett Sturge in Special Projects Coordinator. The Torbay side of St. John’s airport is a real beehive of activity and it is hard to find idle hands over
there.
A few weeks ago I attended the annual Atlantic Region Aircraft Maintenance Conference in Halifax and I have to say
it was well attended and hats off to Chairman Uli Huber and his team for an excellent show. The hat is now passed on to
Jacques Richard and his Moncton crew to organize the show scheduled for Moncton in April 14, 15 and 16, 2010.
Hopefully I will see you there. This concludes my report at this time and until next time, have a safe summer season.
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Honorary Membership
It was proposed at our AGM that we establish an Honorary Membership Category.
This would require a By-Law Amendment and requires agreement by the membership.
An enclosed questionnaire will ask if you “support” the By-Law change. A ‘no reply’ would indicate that you are not in
agreement with the change.
The following guidelines would apply:
It has been proposed that an Honorary membership should be established. The following guidelines would apply:
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Must have been a member in good standing for a minimum of ten years.
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Must apply for the Honorary membership
Must be a retired AME who does not hold an AME Licence.
Member will not have any voting rights
No fees will apply to the member.
AME Hall of Fame
I have enclosed a nomination form for AME Hall of Fame.
Any nomination are to be submitted to Dave Snedden (as directed on the form) before July 31, 2009.
2009 Golf Tournament
The 2009 AME Association Golf Tournament will be held at the Hartlen Point Golf Club in Eastern Passage N.S. (near
Dartmouth) on July 27th, 2009.
We have enclosed a registration packages with this newsletter and we are looking forward to a good turn out.
Exhibit Hall
ELT lecture by Brian Card
Atlantic Avionics
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A.M.E.’s HALL OF FAME
NOMINATION FOR MEMBERSHIP FORM 2009
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ARAMC CONFERENCE
Annette Urquhart and Brenda Huber work the registration
desk.
Ben McCarty panel moderator, Jeff Phipps—Chief Mtce. &
Mfg.Standards and Dave Alston—Regional Manager Mtce
& Mfg.
Terry Hope—Hope Aero Display
Mel & Debbie work on AME Assoc. Booth
Uli Huber 2009 Chairman ARAMC
Jason Crowell and party at Banquet
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Awards Presentation
Uli Huber presents 2009. $1000 Bursary to Balsman Farsi Dooraki.
Aviall Award presented to Jason Crowell by Sandy Richard
Uli presents Nfld Govt. Div. Services Memorial Award to Brian Pike.
Ben McCarty receives the Roger Richard Award on behalf of Roy
Bears—recently retired from TSB.
Closing gifts
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Jimmy Flynn entertains at Banquet
Atlantic Avionics
Uli and party enjoy banquet
EXHIBIT HALL
TECHNICAL LECTURE AT
ARAMC
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AME Association
(Atlantic) Inc.
President: Ben McCarty—Tel & Fax: (506) 452-8251
Email: [email protected].
Vice President: Uli Huber—Tel: (902) 873-3534—Fax: (902) 873-4531
126 Gulliver Drive
Fredericton, NB
Phone: 506-452-1809
Fax: 506-452-8251
Email:
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Treasurer: Jason Crowell—Tel: (902) 873-3100—Fax: (902) 873-3101
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Secretary: Dan Dackombe: Tel: (506) 859-0404
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Organization
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Director: Mel Crewe: Tel: (709) 579-2013—Fax: (709) 256-8271
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Director: Dave Hall: Tel: (506) 648-3535
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Director: Bob Pardy: Tel: (709) 758-4802—Fax: (709) 758-4823
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Director: Jacques Richard: Tel.: (506) 863-4618
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