Edmonton Flying Club

The Edmonton Flying Club, home of the Edmonton Flight College, is a flying club and flight school located just west of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It operates from Parkland Airport in Parkland County. It was founded in 1927 as the Edmonton and Northern Alberta Aero Club. The club's first president was Canadian World War I flying ace, Wilfrid R. "Wop" May. At the time, the purpose of the club was to promote aviation and to provide flight training. Today, the Edmonton Flying Club is a member-owned organization that operates a diverse fleet of aircraft and provides flight training at all levels.[1][2][3]

Courses offered

The Edmonton Flying Club offers courses for the following licenses and ratings:[4]

Fleet

As of June1, 2016 Edmonton Flying Club has six aircraft listed at their web site and seven registered with Transport Canada:

Edmonton Flying Club Fleet
AircraftEFC aircraft[5]TC aircraft[6]VariantsNotes
Cessna 17255172SSingle-engine, fixed tricycle gear.
Piper PA-44 Seminole01180Twin engine

In addition, the EFC has a state-of-the-art Modular Flight Deck simulator.

Notable pilots associated with EFC
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gollark: Git stands for GIT Is Tremendous.
gollark: The stages of git clone are: Receive a "pack" file of all the objects in the repo database Create an index file for the received pack Check out the head revision (for a non-bare repo, obviously)"Resolving deltas" is the message shown for the second stage, indexing the pack file ("git index-pack").Pack files do not have the actual object IDs in them, only the object content. So to determine what the object IDs are, git has to do a decompress+SHA1 of each object in the pack to produce the object ID, which is then written into the index file.An object in a pack file may be stored as a delta i.e. a sequence of changes to make to some other object. In this case, git needs to retrieve the base object, apply the commands and SHA1 the result. The base object itself might have to be derived by applying a sequence of delta commands. (Even though in the case of a clone, the base object will have been encountered already, there is a limit to how many manufactured objects are cached in memory).In summary, the "resolving deltas" stage involves decompressing and checksumming the entire repo database, which not surprisingly takes quite a long time. Presumably decompressing and calculating SHA1s actually takes more time than applying the delta commands.In the case of a subsequent fetch, the received pack file may contain references (as delta object bases) to other objects that the receiving git is expected to already have. In this case, the receiving git actually rewrites the received pack file to include any such referenced objects, so that any stored pack file is self-sufficient. This might be where the message "resolving deltas" originated.
gollark: UPDATE: this is wrong.
gollark: > Git uses delta encoding to store some of the objects in packfiles. However, you don't want to have to play back every single change ever on a given file in order to get the current version, so Git also has occasional snapshots of the file contents stored as well. "Resolving deltas" is the step that deals with making sure all of that stays consistent.

References
  1. Edmonton Flying Club
  2. "Facilities". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  3. "Staff". Archived from the original on 2009-06-22. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
  4. "Prospective Students". Archived from the original on 2009-06-22. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
  5. Fleet
  6. "Canadian Civil Aircraft Register: Quick Search Result for Edmonton Flying Club". Transport Canada. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
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