Many of us know of women that are Captains at Big Red that failed rides in 703. It's very difficult to know if they got there because they improved their skills or because of their gender. I am sure there are plenty of male AC pilots who have failed rides. And if they haven't improved their skills,...

Not to mention, management could just issue a new bulletin two weeks before the end of Q3 2025. There is literally nothing to just stop them from doing this. This is not a union-backed contract.

What you fail to read at the end of the bulletin, after Q3 2025, all vacancies will be awarded by vacancy bid. The flow limit stops entirely. Wow. You are completely misunderstanding the intent. Three per month is not a limit . It's a minimum . In 2025 the minimum commitment stops. There could be z...

Yeah hopefully... I still have a lot to get through I'm on the VFR course in YYZ Woo-hoo, so you got through! Congrats! I remember our discussions a few months back about who got a call, who didn't, how the interviews went etc. Best of luck! All I can say is, watch out for GKNC in the simulator (he...

And perhaps it is just a mirror of so many current pilots and instructors. Many of them are perhaps the role models?. They show up as late as they can and leave as soon as they possibly can after their last flight/lesson. They feel that hanging around at the airport or volunteering a bit of time is...

Did you do your written testing around November 5th? I'm in the same boat! Phone interview completed in November for YYZ, waiting for the second one (and waiting, and waiting.... :) Fingers crossed! One question I had is whether there is any way to check if the paperwork you submitted (notarized cop...

PPL is all about chart-reading and dead reckoning, so the exam is not heavy on VOR/ADF questions, but there might be a couple, so don't take chances and know how they work. You'll get a couple of points on the exam and, more importantly, you'll know how to use them in real life should you ever need ...

DanWEC wrote:Unless it's a radical avionics difference like a G1000, or an R/G, an individual model check is dumb enough in itself but probably just to generate revenue. But to be clear, we are talking about the instructor having to pay for their own checkride for employment. Did that happen??

Yes.

On the note of paying for your instructor check rides ("Check on type"), I would hope no flight school would ever do this to new hires- do they??!?!

Oh, yes!!!

Including a two separate "checks on type" between two different 172 models. Believe it.

That's not my interpretation of the plain English meaning of what's in the relevant regulation. I understand that. But I am genuinely curious now how your interpretation differs. You don't owe me an explanation, of course, but I am just truly interested in how you interpret this CAR. You say that y...

Easy, tiger. What the CARs say is that to be legal, you have to be at least 500' below any cloud that's directly above you AND you have to be more than 1 mile from any cloud that's at your altitude. Nope, they are saying more than that. They are saying you have to be 500' below any cloud that's wit...

If it was written as "or" then you could satisfy the condition by being either 500 feet under cloud (but still be right next to it) Huh? How is that not legal? Are you telling me that if it's 1500' AGL overcast, you can't fly circuits?? or only 100 feet under it as long as it was more than a mile h...

Technically, yes, you are reading it wrong. Think of it this way. Any commercial operator (702, 703, 704, 705) that is approved for IFR operations can use 700.10 to determine the approach ban using 75% of the advisory visibility found in the CAP. If they want to be able to use the 50% approach ban ...

Thanks for the reply! 1. Approach bans only on approaches where there is serviceable RVR for that runway. 2. Know the minimas (RVR "a" 1200, "b" 1200, Both 1200/600) This looks like something that would show up on the INRAT rather than SARON, since that's the approach ban for non-commercial operator...

1) Ops Spec Issued by Transport Canada (or the FAA) after a company applies for them detailing how they will meet the requirements found in the CARs Regulation and Standards. When you see the air operator is authorized to do so in its air operator certificate; in a reg, this usually means there is ...

I'm studying for my ATPL exams, and the approach ban be the bane of my existence! I've re-read the relevant CARs at least a dozen times now, made several flowcharts and diagrams, and still it's all clear as mud.... :-/ I think I get the gist of the idea, and reading some AvCanada posts has helped cl...

From what I know, it's one of the best maintained grass strips around the GTA. In the summer, anyway. But I haven't actually flown into it for several years now, so it's not the most current info.

We had a similar thing happen at my flight school when we acquired an aircraft that hadn't been used commercially before. It was a 172M and the CoA read just "Normal". We limited that aircraft from spinning to be safe until a new CoA arrived that read "Normal/Utility", like the other two M's in our...

Prepare to be blown away! Jeez... So... would it be illegal to spin a 172 that just said "Normal"?? I'd ask Transport, but in my experience they take between about 2 and infinity months to get back to you... and then they usually give an answer that would provide them with the most ass coverage in ...

The "Normal" of registry is a different "normal" than that of the certification - just to confuse you. A Normal registry aircraft is not "special purpose". "Agricultural" etc. This is unrelated to the Normal vs Utility of design certification, so, an aircraft eligible in both Normal and Utility, li...

I don't believe any C172 has "utility" on the C of A. In a sample of 4 of various vintages, all say "normal". That was my experience too. :) Just wanted to be sure. I don't think pencil annotations in the POH are regulatory, either. :mrgreen: Lol, no, definitely not. I was just a bit surprised to s...

Thanks, PilotDAR. I'm aware of the loading requirements for spinning the 172. I am just wondering it needs to actually say Utility on the C of A before the aircraft can be legally spun.

The only STC (for which there is paperwork anyway) is one that allowed the use of mogas. Everything else appears stock; nothing like floats or STOL kits. It has a venturi system for the gyros, but I think that's how it came from the factory. At least, I see no paperwork to the contrary.. One concern...

A few days ago I was helping ferry an aircraft that's been sold to a group of people who want to do flight trianing on it, a Cessna 172. The Certificate of Airworthiness stated the category as Normal, though the POH, of course, lists loading envelopes for both Normal and Utility category. Spins, tha...

Now that you mention it, photofly , I realize all I have for that is the words of my flight instructor and every single FAA approach plate I've seen up until today. Today I went digging to see what else is there on the approach plates, and was able to find a couple of U.S. airports where the legs fo...