Comments by Bruce Wellman
FLYING CONTROL SCHOOL, CAMP BORDEN
By 1957, owing to a need for a better radar simulator and because the RCAF wished to consolidate, under Org Order 5.5.5. 17-3-1957, the Flying Control School moved into Hangar 9 at RCAF Station Camp Borden. This hangar, and its sister hangar #10, were World War I hangars, lacking good insulation. Hanger 9 also included the Control Tower. Soon, with the inception of IFR Terminal Control training this school was churning out the graduates for the increased establishments needed to staff Terminal Control units in the RCAF.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TRAINING COMPANY, CFB BORDEN
Soon after the integration of the Canadian Forces in 1968, the Canadian School of Aerospace and Ordnance Training was established at CFB Borden and the Air Training Wing became known as the Air Traffic Control Company. (Army nomenclature had been accepted). During the next few years the ATC Company struggled to train using old equipment and to obtain new simulators.
In 1973, the ATC Company forwarded to National Defence Headquarters a requirement to upgrade the IFR/Radar simulator, which, unfortunately, could not fit into Hangar 9. Also The Ministry of Transport was also going to the government with plans for the new simulators at the Transport Canada Training Institute (TCTI) at Cornwall, Ontario. Many governmental authorities wanted to know why two Schools were needed. As a result, no decision on replacement of simulators for DND was taken, but it engendered many discussions, when finally, in 1975 the Military Air Traffic control Company at CFB Borden was directed to join with Ministry of Transport Air Traffic Services School at Cornwall. In 1976, the two Schools switched instructors with Bob Billard coming to Camp Borden as MOT Liaison with Captain Jack Garbutt moving to Ministry of Transport Training Institute in Ottawa, later moving to Cornwall. The final hurdles were overcome in May of 1978 and the RCAF switched from the RCAF method of strip-marking to that of DOT. Joint training was the plan for civil/military ATC from that time on.
RCAF STATION CAMP BORDEN
S/L SNE Beauchamp 1957-1962
S/L DL Snowden 1962-1964
AIR TRAINING WING, CFB BORDEN, ONTARIO
S/L EF McConvey 1964-1967
Major GR Stockwell 1967-1969
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TRAINING COMPANY, CFB BORDEN, ONTARIO
Major GB Woods 1969-1972
Major W.LG Greenaway 1972-1974
Major FN Pearce 1974-1975
Major EB Wellman 1975-1978
Major EH Decaux 1978-1979
Updated: February 12, 2005