09/09: COPA for Kids
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
The local chapter of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association runs an event call COPA for Kids twice a year. Pilots volunteer their time and fuel to take children ages 8 to 17 for 20 minute airplane rides in hopes to build an interest in aviation.
Before the kids can fly they go through basic plane information and safety instruction.
A stunt pilot named Gord Price flew at the airshow in July. Ed sent Gord a video of Gord's airshow preformance and Gord asked Ed about shooting some more video, so they came to an agreement that Gord would do a practice session at the Saugeen airport on the COPA for kids day. It would be a pilots and kids alike.
Gord parked his plane so the kids could see it up close and he signed the kids flight logs. By the way Gord is 75 years young.
Before the kids can fly they go through basic plane information and safety instruction.
A stunt pilot named Gord Price flew at the airshow in July. Ed sent Gord a video of Gord's airshow preformance and Gord asked Ed about shooting some more video, so they came to an agreement that Gord would do a practice session at the Saugeen airport on the COPA for kids day. It would be a pilots and kids alike.
Gord parked his plane so the kids could see it up close and he signed the kids flight logs. By the way Gord is 75 years young.