I am currently working for a 703/4 company and YES I have a bond, but i don't pay a cent unless I leave before my 12 months are up. In which case I must pay the remaining pro-rated balance on the bond. Seems fair, but that's just my opinion. What happens if before the 12 months are up the company y...

Of course the people who run these government funded programs would dispute that they don’t allow their students to fly in adverse weather conditions, and that their training does not prepare their students to be of any use to a potential employer. It is in their best interest to deny it. But if thi...

In my opinion no, the government should not be funding flight training at all. Most of these programs are a joke. They do not provide their graduates with the skills necessary to be of any use to most operators. They have a cookie cutter approach to flight training, and they close the flight line an...

This is one of the many reasons why I think a lot of people should be fearful of the proposed College of Professional Pilots. Many people I have talked to who are in favour of the College of Professional Pilots idea seem to think that the creation of the college will be the first step towards eventu...

BTW when I do a Flight Instructor rating the first 5 hours is a job interview. If in my opinion the student will not be a good instructor than the I will fire the student. I know of a couple of class 2 instructors who were "fired" by their original class one instructor when they were a class 4 cand...

Shiny side up thanks for the advice. But I wasn’t making assumptions; I was speaking from my own experiences from working with instructor’s, dispatchers at flight schools, and dispatchers at airlines. Ground jobs are ok, as long as the pay is fair and you’re not being taken advantage of. Early in my...

I wouldn’t call the industry standard for a dispatcher “pathetic”. I know a number of flight school dispatchers who are not pilots and they actually get paid quite well. But it is has become common practice in the last couple years for flight instructors to work dispatch while getting paid substanti...

Of course CFI's and owners are going to promote instuctors having to work dispatch before getting a flying job. Thats because they are managing a business, and it is their job to keep costs as low as possible. One way to minimize costs is to take advantage of eager new class 4's who will work for le...

Times have changed since the old pilots here started...Either adapt to the changes or move on. Yes, but it's not like things have changed for the better. I don't think Bear needs to adapt, based on what he has said it sounds like he has had a flying job for years. He is just lamenting what this ind...

People like to make a big deal about CADORS around the water cooler, but as far as the student's future as a pilot goes they are usually not a big deal. I wouldn't get too upset about it.

The problem has to do with administration, students, and instructors 'buying' and reporting false time in logbooks, as well as instructors being told to show up for work when there are no bookings, and put in time without being compensated. I'm not sure if this is the industry norm or what, but my ...

So let me get this straight Ralliart, it's 2pm and you have already had 2 or 3 aircraft in your small op go mechanical...and yet you still have time to be reading and replying to posts on avcanada? Stop embaressing this industry, why don't you give guys like kingoftheskies the respect they deserve a...

Hi Freddy, unfortunately this is not a good time to be a new class 4 instructor. In the last 2 weeks I have seen 2 other threads about a school in Alberta and another in Ontario closing. So that’s 2 schools that have shut down in a span of 2 weeks! This probably means that there are about 10-20 expe...

I think Im getting an idea of who these guys are that say they cant get a job or the indusrty is full, I have done my first few flights for my PPL and had my first ground school last night. There was approx. 10 people there. out of those ten 5 of them stared at there I phones texting the whole clas...

As for what courses to take you can get your PPL anywhere. Just go in to the school and talk to the instructors and make sure you feel comfortable at the place. If you want to fly floats a lot of your time building towards your CPL can be done on a float plane after you get your PPL. I would also su...

Goldeneagle, you can’t honestly expect us to read all that? Could you try summarizing in say 200 words or less?

It was not too long ago that I was the 200-300 hour guy working the dock hoping to get promoted. Since then I have had a few flying jobs. In all these places I have met a lot of low time pilots and I really don’t recall meeting one person who struck me as having a sense of entitlement. I have enjoye...

There were a few that got screwed over the years but they screwed themselves by exhibiting a poor attitude and work ethic. I visit this site a lot but rarely reply to what people say on here, but I had to respond to this comment. You can’t say that just because someone didn’t get promoted from the ...

"The worst day of flying still beats the best day of ordinary work"

It does?

Stan Darsh, what do you mean by “whatever bud”? I was just trying to help the guy save some money. There is another thread “high time, can’t find a job” where there are some guys with 2,000 plus hours saying that even they are unable to find work for this summer. Perhaps you can tell us where these ...

Road trip, go where people don't want to work, supply and demand! My advice, do NOT do the road trip this year, save your money. I just got back from a road trip through northern Ontario, Manitoba and all the way to B.C. and then back again. I slept in my car half the time and still managed to rack...

So Randleman, would you consider this guy a whiner?

I'm sorry... I had to get up at 5:30 to work a 14-hour day at my second job to pay my bills. I'll try harder next time...

I think someone told me that Pacific Flying Club at CZBB sometimes hires the Class 4’s that they train. But I think the catch is that you would also have had to have been in their BCIT program for your CPL, etc. As I was just saying to someone in another thread, the instructor jobs out west seem to ...

Well if by "just recently expired" you mean within the last 12 months, then you won't need Mr. Class 1 to sign a recommend for you.

If you don’t mind me asking, do you have an instructing job lined up? If not, then it might not be worth renewing. It seems that there are a lot of unemployed instructors and not a lot of job openings right now. I have a number of friends with instructor ratings who are getting very frustrated with ...