The Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) is gaining momentum, president and CEO Rich Gage announced at the association’s annual general meeting in July. Gage reported that since the last meeting, membership has been increasing steadily, finances are strong, a new training program has been introduced and an internal integrated management system is being implemented.
Gage was particularly encouraged by the increase in the number of members now qualified under the association’s private operator certificate (POC) program. In the past 12 months, 52 corporate flight departments joined the program, which now includes virtually 100 percent of the non-government aircraft operator membership. Initiated by CBAA in 2004, the program is a Transport Canada (TC)-approved flight operations safety self-monitoring program, under which operator personnel have assumed many of the responsibilities of Transport Canada inspectors.
