Looking for a room near-ish to YVR for the winter, 4 days on, 4 days off, I go home on days off.

I'm not picky, but I am cheap

I was shocked as well when a live person actually answered the phone at Industry Canada...totally caught me off guard, thought I had the wrong number.. Gave her my birthday, she looked me up and, heard her punch a button and say " its on its way ". The efficiency and ease of the interaction made me ...

Nothing would warm my cold dead heart more than seeing the SMS inboxes of every carrier attempting the FRMS end run to get filled with fatigue reports on Day One. Thats all it would take to completely kill the FRMS bypass. All it would take is for pilots to grow a set and stand up together against t...

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Nope. For one thing, pilot training is inadequate. I flew 703/704 for many years and a lot of it was in very challenging environments. I can tell you, and you aren't going to like this, but other than (maybe)! being able to steer a plane straight & level and interpret an approach plate, you have fe...

You can only log instrument time when you are in actual IMC or under the hood and in the SIM during training, so for example, you did an hour flight from CYSB to CYTZ only during departure and landing you were in cloud or IMC. I only put 0.2-0.3 for my instrument time. You don't put any instrument ...

I remember being warned about being "pushed" or otherwise convinced to do sketchy things by all these unscrupulous owners and cowboy coworkers. Took me a few years but finally realized the only one doing the "pushing" was me. Self discipline to maintain my own standards in the face of my own need to...

Do some digging and you should be able to find the applicable health authority/gov't dept that publishes standards for flight crews. I know for Alberta in particular, a criminal record isn't an automatic disqualifier. Once a criminal record check comes back as "non clear", they will ask you for part...

First, take off the tie...put some pants on....brush the gel out of your hair. Let the kids out of the locked bedroom. Then sit silently for awhile and just think about what you've done. Maybe cry a little. Log into AvCanada and see if some jackass has posted something sarcastic on your topic instea...

Thanks for all the feedback, great stuff. I think I will give them a shot!

Thinking about getting an ANR conversion kit for my DC's. I found these online and wondering if anyone has ever tried them? http://www.headsetsinc.com/ANR_kits.html Still cant bring myself to shell out 1000 bucks for a big-boy headset, so the 169USD pricetag on the kit is appealing. I have no proble...

When I used to fuel, the skinny/avgas nozzles were kept in the jet trucks for quick changes when required. Lots of turbine helicopters that will not accept a j-spout. Realizing the potential for mistakes, they moved to having the nozzles under lock and key in a managers office and only signed out fo...

Alberta Health chartered at least one WJ 737 for ambulatory patient evacuations. Trust me though, the entire medevac fleet and then some were busy all night taking stretcher patients.

If you have your heart set on floats, and want to learn whats really involved in the tourist trade, this is as good a start as any. You wont be doing any loggable flying, but its a better investment in your education than dumping 15K into a "bush course". You'll learn a hell of a lot more here than ...

Used to work around the corner from them and see them around on the ramp. Have met the owner casually a couple of times, seems like a very decent person, no idea what he or his company is like to work for. Don't know anyone who works there and no nothing about morale, pay scales, etc, but from the s...

I noticed they ask for +3 years of off-highway experience. My guess is delivering JetA to heli-logging and forestry fuel cache sites. Driving a truck loaded with fuel in that neck of the woods, to those places, not for the faint of heart. I also know more than a few seasonal pilots who take a turn b...

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Oh, right, fly the trip yourself if insurance lets you, otherwise take an instructor along for the required portion to give them what they want for time on type and then the rest yourself. That's my take.

The Inreach units by Delorme offer the same functions as the new Spot Connect ( ability to send & Receive text messages ), but are on the Iridium Satellite network. Under 400 bucks and subscription plans, available month-to-month, no contract, for as low as 15 bucks a month. They work, but are not c...

Just to add - I claimed every hour from Zero to Hero. I got nice letters asking for more information on two of the three years I claimed training expenses, and submitted my TL11B's dutifully and was never questioned again. How many hours those two years represented, I cant recall. Whether they even ...

I'm not a tax expert by any stretch, so take this with a grain of salt. I was toying with the idea of some alternate ways of doing my commercial, including considering buying a share of a plane. I was told by a couple of people, whose credentials are just as un-reliable as my own, but had the ring o...

I'm just replying to keep this resurrected thread on the active thread list, so everyone else can enjoy scratching their heads until they see the dates of the original posts.

Just my two cents Khan ( sorry, I don't know how to use the quote function ) " From my research it looks like that after having CPL flying for a regional airline can be achieved with in 2-3 years. " While I'd agree that this "can" be achieved, there's a lot more to this. Do you plan on getting an in...

I'd have to agree with Brown Bear, I fueled for a couple years and although I went a different route, there were a couple other guys that were in the right place at the right time and got flying jobs as a direct result of the refueling gig. Obviously, you may not get the choice to take a gig like th...

I don't know, I think there is a fourth option that you might want to consider. If you've got a bona-fide ramp-to-flight line job, you're a third of the way there( one of the ways there anyway ). The other two thirds being; the money to complete flight training and the employer following through on ...

I heard about this today, but with a slightly more bat-excrement-crazy slant; Source: http://www.mwpr.ca/show11259a0x300y1z/SHOOTOUT_AT_KLAPPAN_-_DID_ANCIENT_SPIRITS_DRIVE_MAN_CRAZY Late last week a helicopter pilot from Lakelse Air was possibly infected by the ancient Spirits of the Tahltan and Git...