Switch in flight info irritates local pilots LOCAL PILOTS aren't happy with proposed changes to the country’s air navigation services which won’t permit them to file flight plans and re- ceive information face-to- face. with Terrace-based flight: specialists. They'll -have io file plans clectronically with a flight centre in’ Abbotsford -using.a.kiosk at the airport here should the changes come about: .. Dave Menzies, one of the co-owners of Hawkair Aviation Services, calls _ the proposed changes ludi- crous. “We have a perfectly well functioning flight services station here with people wha know the area,” said Menzies last week, : ' . “To not let us go up and lalk with a flight: service specialist. when filing a flight plan, to get a brief- ing on the weather, is ri- diculous,” he said. ‘Officials from NavCa- nada, the new agency which now owns and oper- ales the country’s ait navi- gation sysiem, were in Terrace last week explain- ing the proposed changes. They want to create a flight information centre in Abbotsford which will han- dle all flight plans and give aut weather and other information to pilots before they begin flights. NavCanada official Rick Newton cautioned that changes are siill in the proposal stage, are subject to revision and when implemented, will be phased in over 30 months. “What we are doing is bringing in a more effi- cient system with new technology to give pilots the best information possi- ble from people specifical- ly trained for the purpose,” said Newton. jx A sa 3.8 And while pilots. may hot receive face-to-face service, they will be able to: speak to NavCanada employees here once in the air and enroute to Ter- race for up to the minute ~ Information. “There will still be peo- . ple in Terrace for the Ter- race: airport. That won't change,” said Newton. “There will continue to be eyes out the window.”’ But what will change is the number of NavCanada Shelter boost sought MUNICIPALITIES ARE putting pressure on the provincial government to increase the shelter portion of social assistance che- ques. -A resolution passed at the Union of B.C, Munici- palities (UBCM) conven- tion this fall urges the pro- vince to ensure that shelter allowances match actual housing costs. The resolution was put forward by the City of Ter- -race, the first time in years it has taken one to a UBCM convention. City councillor Linda Hawes, who introduced the motion, said it is ludicrous to think that the $500 monthly social services payment for single people is sufficient. “The shelter component of that is $350 and even supposing you could find a place for that, you would be left with about $6 a day for everything else,” said Hawes. *. Peggy Julseth of the .Terrace Anti-Poverty Group Society’s housing centre doubts there many decent places for rent at the $350 level. “It ends up that people are forced to share accom- | , Modation and they may ‘end up ‘having to share “_ ' with-people who just aren’t good campanions,” said Julseth who helped prepare the resolution. ~ DAVE MENZIES of Hawkair Aviation is one of the local pilots not impressed about a proposed change in the way they'll file flight plans and receive information on weather beginning next year. people at the airport be- cause some will be -trans-’ ferred south to work al the new Abbotsford centre, Newton said the number of people affected has yet to be determined, NavCanada’s flight services station here grew in numbers earlier this decade when employees from the airport at. Sands- pit were moved here. Using video technology, the flight services station here can observe condi- tions at Sandspit and relay that information to pilots. The prospect of losing employees doesn’t make Menzies happy either. ...,.. repay The way the weather Bonet PM go aad Byte ea can be up here means that ices some day there won’t be enough people on duty to do the job,” he said, Also leery of the pro- posed changes is Terrace- Kitimat Airport Society chairman Frank Hamilton, “I support the concern of local pilots regarding getting up to date weather information and we voiced that concern,” he said, Hamilton’s also worried about the long-term future of the flight services sta- lion here given the in- creasing dependency of NavCanada on automated equipment. “What's Step Two?” he asked in noting that auto- mation has already caused the removal of flight sery- station employees from the Sandspit airport. 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