SICK shot with the cave stl. Smelly hippie chicks haha...

Well don't beat youself up, and NEVER give up! Your hours would be less if you didn't switch schools, and if you hadn't stretched your 95 hours over the one year anyways. Hedley makes a good point, nothing can substitute for experience, so an experienced instructor can really shorten the training pr...

In the movie Good Will Hunting, the principal character Will is a gifted mathematician working as a janitor at MIT. He doesn't acknowledge his gift and believes he should continue working a blue collar existence. His gift is discovered by one of the professors there and Will is encouraged to develo...

To All My Lefty Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, interpersonally-sensitive, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable...

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my family here on avcanada!!!!!!Cheers!

tesox2 wrote:Im sure my 7 and 5 year old will find this really fascinating...NOT!

send out the fighter pilots!

I got fed up a while ago, fed up with all the crap at my long-time job and I changed my career path entirely, still in aviation, but I get home virtually every night, have medical, dental, pension, can sit at home and watch the sun go down with my wife and actually have hobbies and other stuff that...

Hey DanT that's awesome that you're thinking of doctor/pilot, I'm considering it as well, so much schooling to become a doctor though ....

moocow wrote:Didn't the RCAF just drop the 20/20 uncorrected requirement?

Man, I was not aware of these new vision standards
here's an article I just found:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/newsroom/v ... sp?id=2407

Were Canadian Forces helicopter pilots required to have 20/20 vision uncorrected before?

auto4 wrote:What about the other way around, a pilot with lot's of fixed wing who want's to go rotary....

sky's the limit post should answer your question http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... light=bush

Cat, of your boundless hours how many are rotary wing?

I am THEICEMAN.....ice man!
C'mon, you have to change your name...

How can you call yourselves the icemen when you have neither pwned with him in Crazy Taxi, or have the ability to raise your core body temperature on demand like Wim Hof?

If there really is someone who speaks more than six languages I'm impressed. Reveal yourself phantom!

I thought this would be a useful thread for the new kids :), giving them an idea of the nature of the chopper industry. Hopefully there's no votes for the higher numbers... :shock: Besides the poll if you could post: what year you were licenced, how many years after being licenced: you were searchin...

How do fixed wing operators view applicants whom have rotary time, does it count for anthything?


Ed

For the students who are hired from the Great Slave program, do they work ramp/ground first? For how long?

Hey Captain Building time in a taildragger does nothing for my career does it? I was using it for time building for the commercial and did not think tailwheel time would be looked at seriously by a regional. It definitely does something for your career, hours are hours, it doesn't matter. Plus the t...

planett: so you fly biz jets right now? Are the biz jets basically the same as the 747 etc. with regards to the manual flying, typically, in your case you said you have the option? Flying to the arctic in a biz jet, that's pretty random .



Ed

More questions :) N2: was it the flying part that took the fun out? Bleed: what aircraft did you fly regionally before? The Sim is where all the hand flying and fun stuff is done. Out of curiosity how does one become a sim instructor for an airline? That job would include interchanging between aircr...

Thanks for the replies guys, what about biz jets, I would guess it's the same?

Some quality advice in this forum... I'm really not sure if I want to be a fixed or rotary pilot. Maybe you can help me, this is for pilots who have switched from airplanes to helicopters, why did you switch? I've noticed some 1000+ hr. fixed wing pilots switching, did you switch because rotary is m...

These pilots really impress me! Here are some questions I had relating to aerobatics: What makes a good aerobatics pilot? ie. good hand-eye coordination, reflexes, experience, physical conditioning, a cool head etc... Are they born or made, or both? Anyone can learn to fly, but can anyone become a s...

Since the time I was very young, I always thought that being in control of such a large machine would be very exhilirating, I guess because of the sheer size and the media, but I read in posts that airline flying isn't all that it's cracked up to be, do they mean the lifestyle or the flying? How muc...