Manitoba Aviation Council

🛫✨ On National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Manitoba Aviation Council proudly stands in solidarity with Indigenous communities, honoring their rich heritage, culture, and invaluable contributions to our society. Today, we reflect on the importance of reconciliation and our commitment to participating in this ongoing journey.

In the aviation industry, we recognize our responsibility to foster meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples. This includes creating opportunities for Indigenous employment, supporting Indigenous-owned businesses, and engaging in dialogues for mutual understanding and benefit. We're proud to see increasing representation of Indigenous individuals in various roles within our industry.

As we focus on Call to Action 92 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, we commit to adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for reconciliation. Let's continue working together to create a more inclusive and equitable aviation sector.

As we move forward, the Manitoba Aviation Council remains committed to supporting Indigenous Peoples, recognizing that our industry—and our province—are stronger when we seek truth and respond with action. Together, we can ensure that the skies over Manitoba are not only a place of innovation and progress but also of unity and respect for all. 🌍✨

The future of Aviation looks bright! Congratulations to Roman on winning Bronze at the National Skills Competition in Quebec!

✈️ On this International Flight Attendant Day, We express our heartfelt gratitude to all the flight attendant professionals who tirelessly serve us! Thank you for your service! ❤️

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Celebrating International Crop Duster Day! Kudos to the aviation and agriculture crew who help our crops grow strong and healthy. Your dedication to agriculture is a true motivation 🌽✈️🚜

Happy Easter to everyone from the Manitoba Aviation Council team! 🐣

Congratulations to Michael Steppler, winner of the MAC 2024 Continuing Flying Scholarship, presented by Trevor Zemliduk. Thank you to Porter Airlines, Calm Air, Lazy Bear Expeditions, Sirius XM Aviation, Canadian Propeller and Tough Duck for their generous donations that made our scholarship raffle a success!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 2024 Manitoba Aviation Career Fair and Conference!

Over these three days we had a career fair with over 50 companies and 800 individuals in attendance, many discussions on the future of aviation, sustainability, networking and so much more.

We hope to see you again next year!

With over 800 attendees, we would like to thank everyone who attended the 2024 Manitoba Aviation Career fair - see you all next year! ✈️

Meet your speaker Captain Tanice Steiner!

Captain Steiner grew up in Saskatchewan flying Ultralight aircraft with her father. Her interest in aviation led her to join her local Air Cadet squadron where she earned her Glider and Private Pilot’s licenses. She continued her Aviation education at Mount Royal College in Calgary where she attained her commercial and multi-engine rating. After College she completed her Instructor rating at the Regina Flying Club. In February of 2001, she was hired on as a flight planner for Keewatin Air in Winnipeg. She gained experience working in reservations, cargo, and dispatch at Keewatin before starting as a First Officer on the PC-12 in September of 2001. She moved on as First Officer to the BE-20 living in Churchill, MB and Rankin Inlet, NU for the following 2 years. She upgraded to PC-12 Captain and then BE-20 Captain before leaving Keewatin. In the summer of 2006, she started flying at Calm Air International as a SAAB 340B First Officer. Calm Air acquired ATR 42’s shortly after and she upgraded to ATR Captain spring of 2008.
Captain Steiner is an integral part of Calm Air’s training department as a ground school instructor, simulator facilitator, and Line Indoctrination pilot.

She has been actively engaged with the Airline Pilots Association for over 15 years as the Central Air Safety Chair for Calm Air, and a member of the Remote Operations Committee since its infancy. She is also an member of the Northern Spirit chapter of Women in Aviation.

Most importantly she is a wife to Neil and a mom to Cait.

Make sure to register for this years Conference today!

Happy National Aviation Day! ✈️

On behalf of everyone at the Manitoba Aviation Council - we’d like to extend our appreciation to all of our Air Operators, pilots, engineers, flight attendants, airport personnel, air traffic controllers, ground staff and all other aviators who play such an important role in keeping us safe, helping our industry grow, facilitate the transportation of people and cargo, and ensure our skies are safe.

Meet your speakers, Barry MacKinnon and Brad Elias!

Barry MacKinnon has been a member of the Drone Strategy team at Air Canada Cargo since February 2020. Air Canada Cargo is a member of the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility (CAAM) consortium and the partner of Drone Delivery Canada (DDC), a leader in bringing commercial drone delivery to Canada.

Prior to joining Air Canada, Barry was Director of Strategy Development at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), operator of Toronto Pearson International Airport. Barry joined the GTAA after a 26-year career in aerospace, including in senior leadership and executive roles, at Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and Bombardier Business Aircraft where he interacted with clients and industry stakeholders across Canada and globally. Barry previously served on the Associate Member Council of the U.S. Regional Airline Association (RAA) and was a two-term Board Member of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA). Barry is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia and has held a private pilot license since age 19.

You can learn more about Barry on his LinkedIn page at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-mackinnon-134190b/

Brad Elias is the Director of Cargo at Winnipeg Airports Authority for the past year and a half liaising local, national, and international business communities with a logistics network to ultimately enhance regional economic development via air cargo growth.
Brad is born and raised in Winnipeg and has managed a number of complex International Supply Chains for some pronounced local company’s/operations such as The North West Company, Bison Transport, The Dufresne Group, and Dynacare. Brad went on to Independent Logistics and Supply Chain consulting in 2019 that saw him transition to Mexico and the United States before returning to Canada in late 2022. Brad’s diverse background with strong local roots has allowed him to understand opportunities for Air Cargo growth in Winnipeg with pre-established relationships to influence change.
Visit him on his LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-elias-80933644/ to learn more.

Register for the 2024 MAC Conference today!

🚨 Attention all aviation enthusiasts, have you registered for the 2024 Manitoba’s Best Pilot Challenge and Aviation Collectibles sale? 🚨

📅Date: February 26th, 2024

⏰Time: 10:30-5:00pm

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

REGISTER TODAY! : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeU2m0XAYvRTLyXpDIc1MtfdR13ztsYS-IA_X-D67WRt2wtZQ/viewform

Meet your speaker, Conrad Hatcher.

Conrad Hatcher is a lifelong aviation enthusiast who has maintained a passion for all things aeronautical since his first flying lesson in 1975. He has had the great fortune and privilege to enjoy aviation as both a recreational pursuit and a satisfying career and has worked as a flight instructor, Transport Canada inspector, airline and corporate pilot, and airport manager on the way to accumulating over 20,000 flight hours. During those many hours in the air he has had the opportunity to fly all over North America, the Caribbean and to Europe in various aircraft providing an opportunity to acquire a wealth of knowledge to share with new pilots. He is happy to share this information with anyone who wants to listen and enjoys the opportunity to speak to groups of pilots, aviation enthusiasts and industry groups. For the last several years he has been able to expand his audience as the co-founder of the popular online Groundschool platform Hangaaar.com. When not actually flying, thinking about flying or talking about flying Conrad enjoys spending quality time with his family including an increasing number of rescue dogs that seem to appear regularly around his house.

Make sure to register for this year’s Conference today!

Meet your speaker, Ben McCarthy.

Ben McCarthy is a data scientist with Pulsar Informatics. Since joining Pulsar, he has worked extensively with Air Canada and several Canadian helicopter operators performing data collection and analysis to support the development of Notices of Intent and Safety Cases in accordance with the new Canadian Aviation Regulations. Together with his colleagues at Pulsar, he has led the development of a robust statistical approach to benchmarking flight and duty time data sets. Ben holds a Master’s Degree in Science and lives in Traverse City, Michigan with his wife and a loud dog.

Make sure to register for this year’s Conference today!

COPA Flight 35 is hosting their annual Rust Removers Aviation Seminar!

📅Date: February 26th, 2024

⏰Time: 7:00pm

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

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Meet your speaker, Susan Van Dyk!

Susan van Dyk is an expert in the field of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) and biofuels with 15 years experience. As a consultant, she helps companies, governments and international organisations to develop and implement sustainable biofuel solutions.
Susan’s expertise includes an in-depth understanding of the technologies for SAF production, their potential and challenges, and research and commercialisation trends. She is also experienced in feedstocks and pretreatment processes, co-processing of biobased feedstocks in petroleum refineries, refinery integration, policy, and sustainability.
She is the author and co-author of numerous influential reports focusing on the application of biofuels and SAF in transportation sectors. These reports were commissioned by organisations such as the International Energy Agency Bioenergy Task 39, the International Renewable Energy Agency, Natural Resources Canada, and Transport Canada. She has also published many highly-cited academic papers.
She has worked on several SAF projects funded by Boeing, Suncor, Noram Engineering, the Parkland refinery and other companies, and she acts as a reviewer for the US Department of Energy.
Susan holds a Doctorate in Biochemistry and a Master’s degree in law. She works as a consultant and is also a Research Associate at the University of British Columbia.

Make sure to register for this year’s Conference today!

Meet your speaker, Todd Burns with

Todd is the founder and CEO of Cypher Environmental Ltd. – a Winnipeg based firm that manufactures and distributes its cleantech solutions in over 50 countries worldwide. He’s focused on the creation of solutions that facilitate positive change in Canada and abroad. Todd is committed to drive change in the way that infrastructure is developed and managed, including in the aviation sector.

Make sure to register for this years Conference today!

Thank you to our Energy sponsor, .maintenance.services - we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

REGISTER TODAY! : https://www.mbaviation.ca/conference-menu/

Thank you to our Energy sponsor, we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

REGISTER TODAY! : https://www.mbaviation.ca/conference-menu/

Thank you to our February 27th Lunch sponsor, we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

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Thank you to our February 28th Breakfast sponsor, Prop Works we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

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Thank you to our bronze sponsor, we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

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Thank you to our silver sponsor, NAV Canada, we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

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Thank you to our Gold sponsor, PAL Aerospace we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

REGISTER TODAY! : https://www.mbaviation.ca/conference-menu/

Thank you to our February 27th Breakfast sponsor, we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

REGISTER TODAY! : https://www.mbaviation.ca/conference-menu/

🚨 Attention all CPL Students - Have you signed up for our CPL Pilot Prep Course? 🚨

📅Date: February 24th & 25th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

REGISTER TODAY! : https://www.mbaviation.ca/cpl-exam-prep-2024/

Thank you to our bronze sponsor, Sky North we appreciate your support!

📅Date: February 26th-28th

📍Location: Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport - Polo Park,
1740 Ellice Avenue Winnipeg

REGISTER TODAY! : https://www.mbaviation.ca/conference-menu/