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ATAC Commercial General Aviation. ATAC International Marketing Campaign India 2011 Phase 4 ATAC outreach meetings with Indian Air Operators in Delhi and Mumbai earlier this year Development of marketing collateral and Flycanada.org website
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ATAC Commercial General Aviation • ATAC International Marketing Campaign India 2011 • Phase 4 ATAC outreach meetings with Indian Air Operators in Delhi and Mumbai earlier this year • Development of marketing collateral and Flycanada.org website • 2011-2012 India Recruitment/Brazil research paper, funding approved by Foreign Affairs. • ATAC SMS Toolkit Roll out – Over 25 companies are now in possession of the Toolkit. • Pilot workshops in Ottawa, Calgary workshop hosted by Mount Royal University, Montreal workshop next week at Centre Quebecois de Formation Aeronautique in Dorval.
ATAC Commercial General Aviation • ATAC Air Cadet 2011 Inititiaves • For 2011 ATAC FTU’s delivered 202 Powered Pilot Scholarship (PPS) Canada wide an increase of 12 PPS’ over last year • 192 Cadets successfully achieved their licenses in the 6 week program • New ACLC Power Familial Pilot Upgrade Program has introduced this fall with ATAC schools exclusively delivering the $2500 Industry scholarships to worthy cadets Canada wide • The generosity of ATAC companies is supporting one $2500 Scholarship awarded this AGM to WO1 Corinna Schmidt.
ATAC Commercial General Aviation • Training Of International Pilots in Canada Threatened • Imminent changes on the horizon for issuance of Foreign Student Study Permits • Over 38% of commercial pilots trained in Canada are foreigners • DFAIT Edu-Brand division has agreed to aid CIC to identify quality FTU’s • ATAC is lobbying Transport Canada for assistance and communicating our message to the ministers of education and all agencies involved. • Issuance of Student Study Permits is at risk
ATAC Commercial General Aviation • Dangerous Goods Update • ATAC DG committe working on resurrecting the Dangerous Goods Public Awareness Committee with Transport Canada • Lithium batteries at the top of ICAO’s agenda • The Universal Postal Union in Europe modified its charter to permit lithium batteries in equipment to be permitted in the post • TC reports on re-write of Part 12 – Air in our domestic regulations is currently shown as future work, no definitive timelines . ATAC played a major role in the initial draft.
ATAC Commercial General Aviation • National Occupational Standards for Commercial Pilots • Project launch June 2010 with official ATAC launch at Flight Training session Tuesday • Pilot Occupational Standard will apply to any commercial pilot flying for hire regardless of aircraft type • One standard with subsets of the competencies required by various types of flying activities and subsets of air operations • Standard confirms existing requirements, confirms competencies for air operators, help recruitment consistency, reduces transition costs, supports curricula development and helps students identify career requisites.