If you are stupid enough to drink and drive to the point that you had to refuse a breathalyzer, then do us a favour and pick a different career; we don’t want you. I was unfamiliar with the 'refusing breathalizer' option. At what blood alcohol level would it be beneficial to refuse the test? I don’...

If you are stupid enough to drink and drive to the point that you had to refuse a breathalyzer, then do us a favour and pick a different career; we don’t want you.

Not all change is improvement.

Hello, I am in beginning stages of my flight training and can use some advice. I had a run in with the police where I was arrested and taken to detention but shortly released after with the police deciding to not pursue the charge. I was released without having to go to court and ultimately I was n...

Paying more won’t fix the instructor shortage as the majority of instructors want to go to an airline or corporate job. Instructing isn’t a viable career because the entry barriers are so low. When a 231 hr total time brand new instructor can teach the CPL or ME/IFR course there is no incentive to ...

If you want to get bored of flying planes because you are scheduled to fly too much, go airlines. If you want to get bored of sitting on the ground because you're never scheduled to fly, go air force. At the end of the day, if you can get a hot cup of coffee while flying, you're doing alright. :lol...

With the civilian world …snip…. someone starting today. Your career, (civilian or military), will have ups, downs, good points and bad points, but ultimately is what you make it. A career in military aviation will involve doing a lot of waiting and a lot of things that aren’t flying. This is explai...

I don't know of any fighter jet pilots in the canadian military to achieve 5000 hours of flying, like some of you said previously most end up behind a desk, The military training is a very structured one even, the flight instructures are not given much freedom with the students, unlike flight train...

FYI as a flight instructor for over thirty years with more than 20 thousand hours of flight instruction I spent two weeks in Portage flying the Grob 120, many of the new wannabe pilots were sent home after their first flight because they couldn't stomach being put through a couple of steep turns, P...

It doesn’t matter one way or the other. Having a license will get you a few points at the initial recruiting stage, but not enough to be crucial. Having a license won’t hurt you when you get to Portage/Moose Jaw, unless you lack flexibility to learn.

750px.png One of SouthWests 737s is down for maintenance checks and they found this fatigue crack in one of the seats used for this new policy. Brings up the question of crashworthiness; What weight are the seats and their anchor points rated to? If the pax in them is to heavy and the anchor points...

As far as the CARs are concerned anyplace outside of a “Built Up Area” can be used as an aerodrome. Aside from that it just comes down to permission from the land owner.

The Crown self indemnifies which means they act as their own insurer.

1.) The U.N. is a bureaucratic fiefdom; it often provides very little benefit on the ground level. I have very little confidence in them.
2.). Written exams are no measure of one’s ability to fly or command an aircraft.
3.) Time in the air and PIC time are what make a pilot.

albertdesalvo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:50 pm The Sulako input to these forums in the last five years is exactly what?

Sorting out the spam accounts and keeping things running in the background…

Perhaps it’s time to accept the fact that not everybody can do everything.

The Chief Flight Instructor (and owner) of my flight school is asking me to send him $140 as an etransfer "for his time" to submit my night rating application to TC. I don't know exactly what is involved, but he told me he's already multiple hours into it and now I need to pay for his time. Is this...

TPC, A thousand of those doesn’t make up for this. AC’s response? Not our problem. And no, trolls, this guy wasn’t looking for media attention or a payout, so stuff that before it starts. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/disabled-b-c-man-forced-to-drag-himself-off-air-canada-plane The whole cre...

To work at the FTU you are trying sell?

One of the denizens of the Byward market wandered east…