You need to confirm with TC that they will issue you a new authorization letter and TCID number. The old QTG and letter mean nothing as they would have been issued to the previous operator. Without the letter any time flown on the Redbird will not count.

About 90 % of the Canadian airline pilots are white males. White males represent about 32% of the entire Canadian population. So is the fact that 90 % of the pilots are white males due to 1) Only White males are good enough to he pilots, or 2) Only a very small percentage of the 68% of the Canadian ...

I had a similar thing happen as PF to me in a Convair 580. About 10 knots below VR my seat dropped to it's lowest position which meant I could no longer see the runway. The seat made a huge bang when it dropped and which caused the Captain to turn and look at me. My You have control and his I have c...

The Continental Operators Manual for the IO 520 has charts which show the MP vs RPM limits. It allows 29in at RPM as low as 1800 RPM. Personally I have always climbed at the POH recommended cruise climb of 25 in and 2550 RPM. which I go to as soon as I am safely off the water. If I need more climb p...

There is no magic number for the length of a PGI as some air exercises are more complicated than others. Most of my PGI's are around 15 minutes, but some are shorter eg slips or longer eg forced approaches. The big change in the evolution of my PGI's is I now start by situating the air exercise in a...

I did my Instructor rating while working a full time job. I started in October and finished the following May. It was hard work but worth it as the job let me pay for the lessons as I was doing them, so I finished with no debt. Did your school give you an idea of weather you'd be hired once done? A...

The flying part is very dependent on how well you were taught during the CPL. For most of my instructor rating candidates I find need the first 5 hours just fixing the candidates flying before I can even start on teaching how to teach. If you are working on your CPL don't accept the flight test stan...

I did my Instructor rating while working a full time job. I started in October and finished the following May. It was hard work but worth it as the job let me pay for the lessons as I was doing them, so I finished with no debt.

the main bottleneck is how fast they can build their lesson plans. Are students all still doing this themselves? Can't they just copy stuff from their classmate? After all the content should be very similar. Your job as an instructor is to deliver an effective PGI. To do that you have to be able to...

IMO saying "The wing drain is quite useless" is an inappropriate message for the flight training forum. I have found water when draining Cessna wing drains on numerous occasions so I will always drain them as part of my preflight. It is also important to note that a carbureted engines will pass a sm...

The photo array above doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't take much water to kill the engine so I can't believe Cessna's have been flying around for 50 years with 2 liters of undrained water in their tank. As I understand it the wing dihedral and wing incidence will result in the sump being the low...

There is another thread going regarding the unfortunate crash of a Grumman Goose caused by fuel contamination. There is an excellent discussion about the correct procedures for fueling from drums which should be reviewed by anyone planning a bush flying career or flying up North. Within the context ...

It's going to be so helpful when flying into airports where ATC hasn't updated the ATIS since first light, to repeat the altimeter setting and active runway... only to be informed that neither is current - but they're about to change the ATIS. This is what the AC actually says When received directl...

FYI especially for instructors. It's a long over due update IMO

https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/refere ... no-602-008

The test guide requires the candidate to complete the emergencies actions correctly. If they don't they they get a 2 or 1 depending on the severity of the consequences of the mistake. If they they immediately launch into the actions of an emergency checklist even though the check has no memory items...

If the emergency had a checklist with no memory actions and the candidate memory performed all the actions in the same order as the checklist and actioned any notes (eg for C 172 the note on the electrical power system malfunction for the low volt light) and then verified that all actions had been p...

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How do you teach the use of the emergency checklist on a C172S ?

I don't know of any commercial pilot flying light aircraft single pilot who will take a checklist as a first response to any emergency. You're likely flying by hand, with pax in the back, possibly low level or in the vicinity of clouds. You'll try to deal with the emergency, and if all else fails, ...

As previously posted the Seneca III single-engine balked landing procedure says flaps UP. But, the two-engine balked landing says flaps retract slowly.. Sigh. What does "slowly" mean. Another massively unhelpful Piper POH :roll: That being said if the flight test airplane was a Seneca 1 (4200 lbs M...

There is no doubt that standardization among PE's is a problem and that is on TC. Emergency checklists are particularly challenging. One thing I really like about the new build Cessna's is that the memory items in the emergency checklist are bolded so that there is no doubt about what should be memo...

A personal pet peeve is the preponderance of made up FTU procedures I see in flight schools, many directly contrary to the POH/AFM think it is very important that students at all levels know what is in the POH and follow its directions. Yes, good point. We were discussing similar just the other day...

Bede Thanks for your comment. In a bid to keep the explanation simple I over simplified the description. I have amended that paragraph to more correctly describe the relationship between the battery and alternator. Digits The opening paragraph starts with referencing knowledge deficits in flight tes...

I checked the POH for the Seneca 2, Seminole, and Duchess and all specify "flaps up" for the single engine go around. Therefore I think not fully raising the flaps is a major error and a mark of 2 is appropriate, if it were one of these types. I would also suggest that terminology is important. The ...

As a PE I find that a lack of understanding of light airplane electrical systems is the most common consistently weak area on Flight Instructor Class 4 flight tests. This is how I teach the electrical system in 3 parts. Since the Cessna 172 is the most common flight training aircraft it is aimed at ...

I am all for leveraging technology to get more for less. If remoting means more airports can get control towers then I am all for it. If remoting is just done to save money than then my enthusiasm is greatly reduced. Sadly I think this is just another step toward reducing services to anywhere that i...