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B NEWS IN SITUATIONS LIKE THAT, THEY ARE OFTEN FATAL: NEWMAN Continued from page 3 ATCA Conference in Na tional Harbor, Md. For Newman, he was happy to be able to help, but admits it was tense. "It was certainly stress- ful, knowing how bad it can go for somebody in that situ- ation, wanting to do the best Icandotohelphim," he said. "Using the radio to talk to him, I made sure I kept my voice as calm as possible; if he hears any stress it would be worse, so I made sure: I sounded super calm. "That's thejob.It'sanun- usual situation for us at work. It's not a routine oc- currence." Nevertheless, his own pi- lot training certainly made him the perfect man for the job. VFR are a set of regula- tions under which a pilot op- erates an aircraftin weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is go- ing. In the case of April 6, the LN LY b. " VI Ree, Fi 10) URSDAY, DEC. TERS 3 CLIRRES 111303 HAE LT pilot of thé plane was flying from the United States, across Lake Erie in a Piper Cherokee, heading toward London airport. He found himself caught in cloud and reported having zero visibil- ity. The pilot tried to contact the Toronto Area Control Centre (ACC) but due to his low altitude, the ACC had difficulty communicating with the Cherokee. The To- ronto ACC controllers en- listed the help of the London Tower to establish commu- nications. The Tower offered near- by airports as alternative destinations; but with zero visibility, the pilot elected to continue to London. Newman, a licensed in- strument flight rules pilot, finally re-established com- munication with the lost pi- lot and began talking him through his descent to the London airport. Recognizing the conse- quences of spatial disorien- "tation, Newman provided distance to London, weather MNCRIH | ly ING (AH CELEBRATION MILTON Milton Town Hall 150 Mary Steet SEN Hi . | ALE LUA FREE oF CHARGE Singer, Ron photo Milton resident Stephen Newman recently won the Andy Pitas Aircraft Save Award, which is presented to an individual or group who provided flight assistance that resulted in the safe recovery of an emergency aircraft through the application of exceptional air traffic Service. conditions, headings and al- titudes and then he put his own flying skills to work.In- strument flying is common- ly called flying in the clouds, and without being certified, the Cherokee pilot was in se- rious trouble. Newman, who started flying 25 years ago, told the pilot that he would soon break out of the cloud and would belookingrightat the runway. "In situations like that, 6. 6:3C PM ITEM FORTHE NEEDY Foros ior OV ee O08 28-42 uv Pod they are often fatal," New- man, 46, said. "They did a study and the average pilot lives for 178 seconds. "One of the reasons they end up dying is they don't know that systematic scan; they don'tknow what tolook for or what to extract from it" Newman said it took him two years to become instru- ment-rated. "My colleague who was working the sector in that time, he knows I am instru- ment-rated and he felt I could do more for this guy than he could," he recalled. "I talked to the pilot and told him how to use the instru- ments in his airplane, when to descend and how to scan his instruments, so that . when he broke out of the cloud he could see the run- way. "You could hear the stress in his voice." Newman said he became - profit company, established ghbou wa : | t. He fren 2o flying wit} him, but he di in post secondary, instead he got a math degree and lat er relocated to Milkon where he' ir the last 12 years The married man started working in Toronto for Nav Canada, a private, not-for- lived fi in 1996, providing air traffic control, airport advisory services, weather briefings and aeronautical informa- tion services for more than 18 million square kilometres of Canadian domestic and international airspace. Newman, who flies out of Burlington Airpark around" once a week, is in control of the air space in lower alti- tudes from Oshawa out to Sarnia --a lot of the smaller airports over southwestern Ontario. He said he often flies to the east coast, Chicago, Flor- ida and many spots in be- tween. "I like going places," he laughed, adding he flew from Florida to Maryland to accept the award. Leal == SALE CONCEPT LIGHTING GROUP Oakville Store 243 Speers Rd. Oakville, ON L6K 2E8 +1905 849 LITE (5483) RA LAL ETT ca Burlington, ON L7P OA2 +1905 3317444 Mississauga Store Burlington Store 5980 McLaughlin Rd. Unit 3 1515 North Service Road Mississauga, ON L5R 3X9 +1905 712 4548 i CRT RT a A Wwoo°uo)eyepisul VOY) UBIPDeURD) LON 8102 '6Z 10qQUUeAQN 'Arpsiny |