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SCI, IWA talk

TALKS between Skeena Cellulose and the IWA re- sume again next week.

And this time president Dan Veniez will be there.

The talks begin Dec. 12 and are scheduled for two days, Veniez said.

The two sides have been actively negotiating since August to conclude a new contract that would lower the company’s la- bour costs and pave the way for a restart of the Terrace sawmill.

The mill has been shut down for 14 months,

“We'll try to advance ‘this process,” Veniez said. “I remain: optimistic that we can put this thing to bed before Christmas.”

OK Tire

opens here

TERRACE now has an OK Tire outlet.

The shop opened last week in the former Chip- py’s location on Greig Ave. at Atwood.

It’s owned by Malcolm Scaife, who also owns Minute Muffler and Brake and a Pinedale radiator in the same block.

He says OK Tire will offer auto repairs and ser- vice here in addition to tires. Scaife says it should be a good complement to

_ his adjacent: businesses. . “It’s sort of one-stop centre,” he said.

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MLA ROGER Harris, ex-airport society president Frank Hamilton, Nav Canada’s Monty Cook, mayor Jack Talstra and MP Andy Burton cut the ribbon.

ILS should transform airport’s reputation

USING an Instrument Landing System to fly down to a runway is some- thing like lining up a pair of crosshairs in a gunsight.

The aircraft gets a sig- nal from the localizer — a building and antenna at the north end of the run- way — that provides a hori- zontal reference.

The vertical signal comes from a glide path antenna at the south end, giving the plane the cor- rect angle of descent.

“The pilot lines up the crosshairs and flies to their target,” airport manager Rick Reed explained as the airport celebrated the ILS startup here.

The plane tracking the instrument landing signal down to the runway can safely descend much lower through cloud than allowed under visual flight rules.

Without ILS, pilots must abort their landing

attempt here if they can’t see the runway at an alli- tude of 527 feet. The ILS

_ allows aircraft to follow

the beam down to as low as 250 feet (342 feet if they don’t have a specia- lized approved approach).

That makes it much more likely a pilot can spot the runway. Reed said the ILS should cut the number of missed flights each year down from around 140 to about 25.

Even lower limits may be possible with tweaking.

“We're told we can probably get that down to 150 feel,” Reed said.

The ILS should greatly enhance the viability and reputation of the Terrace airport as somewhere you can land and do business, mayor Jack Talstra said.

“That will do wonders for us,” Talstra said.

On Thursday — the day the ILS powered up here —

the airport skies were shrouded in a low fog.

An Air Canada Jazz flight that moming became the first plane to use the system. Guided down by the invisible beam, it broke through the clouds in perfect position to land.

But Hawkair officials said Air Canada planes sometimes won’t be able to use the ILS in particu- larly bad weather.

That's because the ILS approach is from the south - the same direction the winds usually come in stormy weather, co-owner Rod Hayward said.

In severe weather, heavier jets may have to circle and land from the north without the ILS, Nav Canada’s David Derosa said. Hayward said Haw- kair’s lighter planes won't have that problem. “Our

‘reliability will be further

enhanced with the ILS.”

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