Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The 2010 new guidelines that are coming into effect fairly quick in the next couple of years require all aircrafts of certain categories to be able to demonstrate that they can take off and land within certain distances on certain length runways. In this part of the country, in the Northwest Territories, we have two planes that are being challenged that the years that they were built and tested make it difficult for these companies to be able to provide that information because it’s been such a long time. The Beech aircraft and the Twin Otter are both planes that are used in the Territories and they are having difficulty proving they can land on certain length runways. The companies that have these planes in their fleets are requesting we extend the runways. We feel they need to do their due diligence to find the information and provide it to the federal government, which would allow them to land on the shorter runways. We’ve also embarked to try to help them by contacting the manufacturers or companies that are working with these aircrafts to do some of the actual testing or provide some of the information that they may have at their disposal to qualify that the planes can land on the shorter runways.
Michael McLeod on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
March 1st, 2009
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