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At S a long day
at the airport

‘By GAIL DOTINGA
The day begins early at the Terrace Airport. —
'. Airline and government employees are there daily
at 7-a.m. preparing for the morning flight.
To-make sure planes fly in and out of Terrace
safely and without delay, a number of things.must
be checked regularly. One of the most important of
“ these is weather. Changes in atmospheric con-
ye. ditions must be relayed to pilots before and during
fights,
Througtiout the night the. night weather sequences
’ have been recorded hourly and are checked over
first thing in the morning. On this particular day the
sky is overcast but the cloud ceiling is high and
nothing in the reports indicates that conditions will
worsen before | the he morning flight ©: 48

before the e plane is to arrive: the airfield becomes
completely fogged in.

Immediately, a call is made to Vancouver to
inform them of the worsening conditions and to
warn the pilot. A freeze is automatically put on the
sale of seats of the afternoon flight to keep as much
Space available as they can in case they have to
rebook the morning passengers.

there is plenty of room on the other two flights
coming into Terrace that day, orders from Van-
couver are “to dump and run” if the plane doesn’t
land, That means all passengers are taken to Prince |
Rupert and the plane returns to Vancouver.

CP Air officials in Terrace can reverse those

- orders if they feel it is the wrong decision but today -

ae they agree that with all the available seata on the

= next flights, there is no point in disrupting Prince °

Rupert service by three hours while Terrace
customers are being bussed in.

Planning remains routine as if it will Jand. Aller-
will not Jand.
Buses are nit putonstand-by: instead passengers

estimated and the truck Is ready for re-fuelling.
As the plant approaches a beacon on the Douglas
Channel, he radios infor an update on the weather.
If there is any chance of a landing he will fly down
_ the valley. If not he goes stralght on to Prince
: . Rupert. The fog is slowly lifting so the pilot decides
to give it a try and Is successful.

- Once on the ground, the skin of the nireraft and

the tires are given a visual check. In approximately

.. half an hour the passengers and baggage are on

board, the pilot has the most recent weather report
and is ready for take-off.

CP Air takes three trips te. the north coast a day:

once in the niorning td both Terrace and Prince

' Rupert, in the afternoon te Terrace and a night

flight to Prince Rupert. Recently they have

that they can be more flexible when the weather Ls
bad. 4

destinations to go on to. If there were any in- |
- _ + berruptions on the north coast, It would delay ser-
rf, vice in other parts of Canada,
; “t's hard to explain to.a customer in Ottawa that
_ the ‘plane is ‘late because of bad westher in
Terrace,” said Tom Laurie, sales manager for CP
"Air. “Most of them’ don’ teven know where Terrace
is. am

Now, without disrupting too many poopie; they’

- tan bold a plane in Prince Rupert if they have to, °
.. Also if a pllot cannot land in Tertace but con:
ditiods are improving, be can fly back after Prince

oa , Rupert and give It another try. :
: . "With one plane serving the north coset, the

intpact of bad weather is felt here, where [t shield
* be,” said Laurie.

After reviewing the flight information and seeing —

Although the morning flight is questionable, .

native plans are not made until the pilot ce decides he .

are booked In, baggage is sorted so that it can be -
loaded’ and unioaded quickly, weight loads are - ,

Gesipnated one plane for flying the north coast so ~

Previously the plane used on the Terrace flights —
ne on had either flown in from the east or had other ©

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