This helicopter friendly site is brought to you by Kirk Waugh, a "retired" (recently 01 May) Flight Engineer Instructor (who is now a CH149 Technical Instructor with IMP working at 442 Squadron with the Operational Training Flight (OTF, yep still training Flight Engineers), based at Comox, BC, Canada. This is strictly a personal web-site and hence an unofficial site. This site will concentrate on the new CH149 Cormorant but will keep the background info on the Labrador available. Cheers Fly Safe!
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It was with great sadness that we all learned about the ditching of aircraft 914 off the Nova Scotia coast with 7 crew members about, and the three that didn't survive. This is a horrible incentive to update one's way out of date website with the remembering of 3 aircrew who lost their lives on a brutal night for the SAR community. Everyone in the community was affected by their loss either one way or another. I have personnally instructed Duane on both the CH113 Labrador and again when he converted to the Cormorant. He also showed this instructor that he had been around the block a few times and I learned much back from him. Trevor was a brand new Flight Engineer just undergoing his On Job Training (OJT)at the Sqn. Trevor was around my classroom for 6 weeks last summer on the CH-149 Technical course, he was the class card. I unfortunately never had the oppuntunity to work with Kirk in any capacity as I don't run into the SAR Tech world much anymore as a technical instructor. An unfortunate by product of the ditching was that interest in my website went through the roof and Yahoo actually shut it down on numerous occasions, I guess people looking for information. (aren't we all) I have nothing to add to what you already know, the aircraft has been released to service as there is no airworthiness issues involved with the ditching (Airforce website), take that as you will. It will all hopefully come out in the end with the Flight Safety Investigation, anyway I am more interested in remembering the friends, Husbands, dads and crewmembers we have all lost. * In the end we do not have the choice of how long we stay on this earth, only the choice of what we do with the time we have. *Gandolf the Grey They will all be missed. My sincere sympathies to the families, friends and members of 413 Sqn Greenwood Nova Scotia. THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE. |
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Just for a quick update for everyone out there all 15 aircraft are now in Canada. 442 Sqn Comox BC and 103 Sqn Gander Nfld are operational now and Greenwood is almost there (Monday 15th Sept?). Gander has pulled off a couple of big ones that made the news lately and 442 Sqn has had the busiest Summer flying in Ten years with 3 Major searches and although those did not turn out like we had hoped there were good news mixed in the there with a few people extracted from a couple of plane crashes that turned out with happy endings. The Comox Cormorant fleet flew in excess Of 800 hrs this summer and it has been a long time since we have been so busy. We still have some teething pains to be ironed out and 424 Sqn Trenton will be delayed standing up with their Cormorants and will be flying the CH113 Labrador for a little while longer. I have personally acquired about 500 hrs now on the CH-149 and needless to say it has been an Interesting and challenging time and I expect this to continue with my new job with IMP of Halifax NS. I continue to be based in Comox and I am still involved with Cormorant and Flight Engineer training although now on the technical side.  149 in Comox
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"LAB 305 MEMORIAL..02 OCT 98
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