; - ence. began'with pilot train- Bee

- World: War, he and his.crew
- flew.32 trips during their.

Jack Kaiser realized his lifelong
dream, but it took him until his re-
tirement to see it come true. —

Now, with the Victoria Flight School
going strong, and its newest affilia-

tion, maybe, just maybe, he can ...
retire.

bringing with him his Eng-
~ lish war bride, Gabrielle,

and the couple’s first.son.

-. For the next few years »

the Kaisers made their liv-
_ ing farming and their fam-

ily grew to include six chil:

Peninsula News 2ws Review

A tatime when. most
7 people would be

( five years into their
retirement, Jack Kaiser
was just opening Victoria
Flight Training Inc. Kaiser
had been the manager of _
- the Victoria Flying Club for’
18 years after a 25 year ca-
reer in the Air Force, when. -:
he resigned his position

children.
Kaiser again joined the
air force in 1950, and flew.
’ Transport Command in

ae his own flight: ~ pilot with the Central Ex.
< Kaiser's flight ¢ eeperi: - perimental and Proving Es-

tablishment where he says
his past as a Prairie boy,

“jneor the Air.Force in.
1942, after: ‘which he flew a
“Lancaster four engine»
~ bomber during the second ae

" Bay and Coral Harbour, '

: leaving planes. to freeze

dren and later, 10 grand- -—

~ C47s and North Stars, after :

which he also flew as a test ‘rom thé air force in'l 975,

who should be used to the .
cold, ‘got: him the job of fly--
“ing to places like Resolute: s

where he had such jobs’ as ns

than 35.times.

When Kaiser retired first student into the air on

December 4, 1995. .

he moved his family - — per- Now, nearly six years

haps for the final time — to
the Peninsula...

Kaiser. recalls the first:
time he seriously consid:

- ing employs six full time in-
~. structors, four part time in-

trative staff. Their aircraft
include four Katana DA.
20s, one Beachcraft

school. “It was a hot July: ate
ernoon and Iwas sitting
with Jim McLaren, [who

‘Flight Teaining | Ine: took its

later, Victoria Flight Train-

~- gtructors and five adminis- >:
“ered opening his own flight.

gree: “All of the academics

Duchess B76, one ee = and: flying for the: ‘program

tour of operations, ‘drop-

8 also flew. Dakotas all.

ing | bombs on-Nazi Ger-
many. ‘Later-he'flew.Trans-
“port Command ‘from Eng-
--Jand to India and back, he

ground! Europe to help
‘reestablish’ British and Eu- tie
ropean air ‘routes. Kaiser.
was also the pilot who flew
- the hangman into Nurem- .
here after the War crimes: .
trials. ° :
After the war he went

home to Saskatchewan,

~ nior Staff Officer of Air*

Training, he was also. the »

- Project Officer on the plan |
that introduced the Tudor

f and make : sure they. would
; restart.

" Khiset then spent 19°

a years asa Flight’ Tr aining
~ Instructor for, the Air Force 2s
and rose.to the rank of ©

. Lieutenant Colonel.and. Se- os

to the Canadian Air Force.

. During these years, he and.”
his family. moved more

“built the building where’
- Victoria Flight Trainings:
“ “now resides], having.a nice ™

‘cold beer, and he asked:me.

“So.Kaiser did; And | in ae

2 show of support three of:

_ his former employees
came with him and were by

his side when Victoria -

“-eally over the next three...

172 and two-flight simula =
tors, including.the Elite. <.
3000 flight simulator, which E
can be programmed. to sim-
if I’d ever: thought of « open- aire
Ge ing a school of my.own. T°.
told ‘him that takes money,
"put I talked to my wife and
“she said, you. want to do it, -
do it.”

ulate up to 12 different...

~ planes, from:single: engine. 7
planes up to.747s.-

-These numbers how-
ever, will change dramati-. .

years due'to the newly
signed agreement between

‘Victoria Flight Training
Inc. and Royal Roads Uni-

versity, The agreement

toria Flight Training/.
Royal Roads University, Air- is
i port. Campus.» ¢

full campus including dor-
mitory space, cafeteria and.
, ‘classrooms. Kaiser

“LAURA LAVIN PHOTO

: The buzz and hum of an aircraft is music to Jack Kaiser's ears. His love of flying

iad has taken him across the country many times and now is taking. a more permanent:
form at Victoria International Airport.

‘forms the basis of the Inte-
: grated Bachelor of Com-..
- merce and Commercial. ~

Aviation Degree, which is

‘an intensive three year pro-
“gram designed for the indi-.
-vidual who is interested in”.
acquiring professional lot
2 skills while obtaining. a:

Bachelor of Commerce. dee

‘will be held at the new Vic

'-The classes will be tem-
-porarily held in leased
buildings near Victoria

Flight Training, but.
“Kaiser’s future plans in-
“clude the’construction of. a

&

‘said;"our biggest class-

room is just the other side

ty around 30 hours'a

- must take their last ride
~ with him/as the Designated

| So.it’s about time we marry
up education and: aviation:

up the Integrated Bachelor

‘ee mayo.

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‘of Duncan, three miles
wide, seven miles long and
35.000 feet deep,” referring
to the path his training
flights take.

Victoria Flight Training
Inc. was the first flight
school in BC to receive ac-
creditation from the Private
Post Secondary Education
Commission of British Co-
lumbia. Victoria Flight
Training is also Transport
Canada Certified to provide

all levels of flight instruc-

tion.
Kaiser said, “this is

‘something that I started

trying to do 42 years ago,
- integrate aviation and edu-
cation.”

At 76 years of age Kaiser

~ has 32,000 hours in the air
~ 19,000 of them are instruc-
~ tional hours, the highest -.

~-number of anyone flying in
» Canada: He continues to;

month and all of Victoria.
- Flight Training's students

Flight Test Examiner, be-.
fore moving on with their, :
. instruction.

“Canada is number: one
in flying hours per capita.

“In five years Cathay. Pacific os -

will require {pilots to have]
computer. sciénce degree,
others: won t be far behind” aes
them.” :

“Kaiser. said i now ‘that hes.
has accomplished setting ©

of Commerce and Com-"
‘mercial Aviation degr ee, he
can retire, “This is what |

I've: ‘wanted todo ‘fora long .
‘time, I can retire no
three or four “years,

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