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For Cook, any kind of plane will do

by Girard Hengen
The Review

Wade Cook, an 18-year-old Saa-
nichton student, just wants to fly
planes.

Military fighter jets or transport
planes, or commercial passenger
aircraft, it really doesn’t matter.

He has already taken the first
step to reaching his goal.

Cook earned his cadet’s wings
and a private pilot’s license after
completing a power flying schol-
arship course this summer at the
Cadet Camp Pat Bay.

Graduation and a wings parade
for Cook and 25 other cadets took
place under the watchful eye of
reviewing officer Col. J.E.H. Gib-
bon Friday at the camp on airport
grounds.

The ceremony, with proud rela-
tives and friends watching, was
held with typical military panache.
Color and music was provided by
the Naden Band of Maritime
Forces Pacific.

Cook and Hilary Harris, 17, also
of Saanichton, of Sidney’s 676
Kittyhawk Squadron, were among
the graduates.

Cook said afterwards one of the
reasons he joined cadets was to
eam his pilot’s license.

The Stelly’s Secondary School
grad said he plans to join the
forces fulltime to continue his
flying.

Only the cream of the crop
become fighter jet pilots. Cook
says this “would be nice, but...1’m
willing to accept fighter or trans-
port. All I want is to be a pilot. If
they make me a pilot, ’'m happy.

“If they give me a tour with the
Snowbirds (precision aerobatic
team) for a couple of years, that is
the ultimate.”

For Harris, who is beginning
Grade 12 at Stelly’s, earning her
wings “was difficult, but it was
worth it.

“This 1s what I’ve wanted for a
long, long time.”

She said she wanted to do more
flying but hasn’t decided if it will
become a career.

Cadets undergo a rigorous

Jumper broughi
back fo shore

Charges are not being laid
against a 47-year-old Burnaby
man who jumped from the Queen
of Saanich’s Thursday sailing to
Swartz Bay from Tsawwassen.

The man was picked up by an
American pleasure boat south of
Active Pass, northeast of Sidney,
about 2:55 p.m. Thursday, as the
B.C. Ferry was nearing the termi-
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“The man was in good condi-
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Police said the man jumped
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screening process to be picked for
the course. They received scholar-
ships valued at $7,000.

Harris said she was “shocked”
to be selected.

“Flying to me is the best part of
cadets,” she said.

Both Cook and Harris received
48 hours air training and 40 hours
of classroom instruction during
the intensive seven-week course.

Like the other graduates, they
have made about 20 solo flights in
Cessna aircraft.

The ceremony was an especially
proud one for Col. Gibbon, who in
1989 became Chief of Staff Oper-
ations, Maritime Forces Pacific.

Reviewing the cadets marked
his last duty in the forces after a
36-year stint. He began his avia-
tion career on the same spot, “at
that same brick building.

“J feel privileged on my last day
in the service to welcome a whole
new group of pilots into the won-
derful world of aviation,” he told
the assembled.

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