Thanks for the advice, I've spent a reasonable amount of time with the atlas in front of me, and yep, Vancouver Island is a rather large chunk of land... What's industry like over there? Any chance getting a job in a bank (predominantly treasury) or as an electrical engineer? From what I understand,...

Wow, yet another field to check out! Seek and ye shall find (or in my case, post on AvCanada and help pours out of the rocks!)

Thankyou

If you want to work your trade as a Electrical Engineer have a look at the Edmonton Journal Something about 23 $$ Billion being spent on construction of oil upgraders over the next few years. You might find a job there and not have to live in Toronto. The West is Best. I'll definitely have a look -...

Let me qualify my statement: Running an engine past 10,000hrs without doing boroscope, blow-bys and the like is irresponsible ;) I don't know... I'm sure the liability insurance that covers Lycoming comes in to it... Hypothetical: They run an engine and it fails after 40,000hrs. They run another one...

Running it past 10,000 hours would be irresponsible. Not doing boroscopes would be irresponsible. Not doing blow-by's would be irresponsible. But you really think that an engine that has only run 500 hours in 12 years (without long periods of inactivity) needs to be completely overhauled, if all the...

My word...

Thankyou... Hedley, are you an aviation lawyer or something? You know these laws backwards!

What's a fuel-flow report? Just a table of fuel flows under different power settings?

Seems fairly straight forward. Just forms and fees...

Definitely sounds like homebuilt is the way! Seeing as 3 of us did the work, yet I'm the only one who's currently looking after it, does it still fall into the 51% category? (Seeing as I could only have built a maximum of 33% personally!) It was definitely not 49% factory built, so I guess so... It'...

Driving Rain wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GO_Transit

It could be better but I use it when I go there.

I already read through that... Just wondering what it was actually like from a passenger's perspective

Thanks!

Wow, thanks for the long and detailed reply! That's very helpful :D Another question: what is the public transport like around the cities? In SA, it's pretty much non-existent, or unusable, so almost everyone commutes by car. If I were to stay in say Guelph, would it be feasible to commute to Toront...

Hi I would like to find out about doing maintenance work on my own aircraft, once it is registered in Canada. The aircraft started off as a wreck after being flown into a tree after a stall just after take-off. There was virtually nothing left but a bent fuselage and very badly damaged wings. The wh...

Ok, so after a bit more noodling around and sniffing the air, Toronto is also a possibility... Looking at the thermo maps I have, it seems as though it's a good 10degC colder on average than Vancouver. What's it like to live there? Cheaper, more expensive? Predominant language? Small city or sprawli...

cpl_atc wrote:For those of us uninitiated in Airbus-speak/Big-plane speak; "Direct Law" -- is that some kind of fail-safe mode, or pilot override of the usual systems?

A nice simple explanation about all the laws and their effects:
http://www.airbusdriver.net/airbus_fltlaws.htm

"Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewische It's quite technical, but a real "back to basics" book. Not knowing you, I'm not sure what your flying experience is, but I'd recommend this for any student pilot and fresh PPL. Also good for anyone who wants to learn how to fly better, and helps understand...

Thans for the offer

I'm still at least a year away from getting to Canada, but when the time comes, I'll definitely take you up on that!

The Commission Against Aviation comes to mind, but that's probably just me being unreasonable

Thanks for the test! Going through it, I think I'm getting about 50% (about half-way)... There's plenty of Canada-specific stuff there which I'm going to have to learn (eg. What is the minimum height you can fly over a herd of Caribou?)... As for TC, at least you guys have alternate regions that you...

I'm amazed that the different regions have such different rules! Certainly something to bear in mind...

Thanks guys... I also like the idea of doing the training here, as it's also probably a little cheaper

The terminology of "contracting State" is a bit different to what it's known as here, so I though it was referring to a political agreement of some sort between two countries, rather than relating to ICAO. I would know it as an "ICAO member country". However, at the end of last year ICAO did an audi...

I'm guess South Africa isn't a contracting state, which would mean that I would need to re-do the 45 hours of instruction...? If so, that's a whole bunch of cash... If it's just the exams and ground school, then it's a very real possibility! I'll have a careful look at that option though, there is d...

MrWings wrote:Last time I checked, the PPL had 5 hours instrument training.

As per http://www.rfc.ca/NewSite/PPLinfo.htm , you are correct. Ok, I'm assuming then for my PPL to be converted, I'd need to do that at least...

I've had a couple of failures... One was software bug where pushing Goto then Enter caused the GPS to reboot, and the other is pretty much anytime I'm within 500m of a power-line (final approach to Baragwaneth!) it goes haywire. I'm prepared for it going blank on me whenever I fly, and thankfully it...

It does sound very similar then... Yep helps a lot

Thanks

Wow, that was unexpected! Forgive me, we're a bit behind the times here... There isn't a single GPS approach defined. There are no DGPS or other accuracy enhancements available for aviation. GPS does not even get mentioned in our syllabus. Well, as of the 1st Jan 2008 it may be mentioned as the whol...

Hi all Once again, a question regarding the differences between the SA way of flying and yours! The PPL here consists of a few cross-countries, 15 hours solo, demonstrating forced/precautionary landings, stalls, spin recovery (as I was in a Citabria I got to do full spins, instead of the incipient) ...