COPA for Kids flies kids across Okanagan

by Lionel Casey

More than two hundred kids flew across the Okanagan final weekend and got the threat to revel in the world of aviation. The Kelowna Flying Club held the annual COPA for Kids Junior Aviator Program at the Kelowna International Airport. From ages 8 to seventeen, Okanagan youths took to the skies with pilots, generously providing their time, knowledge, and aircraft. Participants of the occasion attended a brief floor school, wherein they discovered airplanes and had the danger of inviting questions before taking to the sky for a 20-minute flight.

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“The Kelowna Flying Club has been doing this event for over twenty years,” said Doris Livingstone, occasions planner with Kelowna Flying Club and customer support agent with WestJet. “We’re one in all the bigger activities in Canada now,” Livingstone stated. The event ignited a passion among kids to consider an aviation career and help remedy Canada’s low numbers of pilots. I’ve been doing this now for the past three years.

I’ve seen a few kids back every 12 months, and they may be set on being pilots,” said Livingstone. “Even a number of my colleagues at WestJet were introduced to flying via COPA for Kids after they were children. There’s a worldwide scarcity of pilots. We feel it here in Canada and America: anywhere wishes for more pilots.

The COPA for Kids program has brought over 23,000 young Canadians to general aviation.

The Kelowna Flying Club has supplied flights for many local adolescents in its time, organizing the occasion on a regional stage. It used to be that children were handled as mini-adults, but now the pendulum has swung the opposite way, and teenagers are being handled (and acting) as overgrown youngsters. In all likelihood, you have heard about the harm of being a too-extreme parent—whether meaning tiger mom or helicopter discern.

Now you’ll be wondering what you have to be expecting of your child. The early life markers of independence–sitting, walking, potty education, etc.–get talked about loads; however, what is cheap to expect of our older youngsters is not as clean. Just what do we need our early adolescent/middle college children to be capable of doing independently?

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