1. ATAC Commercial General Aviation ATAC International Marketing Campaign India 2011 Phase 4 ATAC outreach meetings with Indian Air Operators in Delhi and Mumbai earlier this year Development of marketing collateral and Flycanada.org website 2011-2012 India Recruitment/Brazil research paper, funding approved by Foreign Affairs. ATAC SMS Toolkit Roll out – Over 25 companies are now in possession of the Toolkit. Pilot workshops in Ottawa, Calgary workshop hosted by Mount Royal University, Montreal workshop next week at Centre Quebecois de Formation Aeronautique in Dorval.

2. ATAC Commercial General Aviation ATAC Air Cadet 2011 Inititiaves For 2011 ATAC FTU’s delivered 202 Powered Pilot Scholarship (PPS) Canada wide an increase of 12 PPS’ over last year 192 Cadets successfully achieved their licenses in the 6 week program New ACLC Power Familial Pilot Upgrade Program has introduced this fall with ATAC schools exclusively delivering the $2500 Industry scholarships to worthy cadets Canada wide The generosity of ATAC companies is supporting one $2500 Scholarship awarded this AGM to WO1 Corinna Schmidt.

3. ATAC Commercial General Aviation Training Of International Pilots in Canada Threatened Imminent changes on the horizon for issuance of Foreign Student Study Permits Over 38% of commercial pilots trained in Canada are foreigners DFAIT Edu-Brand division has agreed to aid CIC to identify quality FTU’s ATAC is lobbying Transport Canada for assistance and communicating our message to the ministers of education and all agencies involved. Issuance of Student Study Permits is at risk

4. ATAC Commercial General Aviation Dangerous Goods Update ATAC DG committe working on resurrecting the Dangerous Goods Public Awareness Committee with Transport Canada Lithium batteries at the top of ICAO’s agenda The Universal Postal Union in Europe modified its charter to permit lithium batteries in equipment to be permitted in the post TC reports on re-write of Part 12 – Air in our domestic regulations is currently shown as future work, no definitive timelines. ATAC played a major role in the initial draft.

5. ATAC Commercial General Aviation National Occupational Standards for Commercial Pilots Project launch June 2010 with official ATAC launch at Flight Training session Tuesday Pilot Occupational Standard will apply to any commercial pilot flying for hire regardless of aircraft type One standard with subsets of the competencies required by various types of flying activities and subsets of air operations Standard confirms existing requirements, confirms competencies for air operators, help recruitment consistency, reduces transition costs, supports curricula development and helps students identify career requisites.