I agree 100%. Thats why your first solo will never be flying out of Calgary and even when you get some time under your belt there will be a instructer that can take over when the tower is telling you to keep your speed up as much as possible. Just my two bits when you learn the game it becomes a lot...

Did a lot of flying a few years ago there. Now that Bernard is gone the only Instructer I would fly with is Phil. As to waiting the tower is very good at getting the small guys out. Springbank is a training airport and when the circuit is full and there is 8 planes at the threshold waiting? As for c...

Ok, I will bite. Is this something that you are offering or is it something you are doing right now. At 10 gees for 500 hours of rotor there would be a stampede to your door. I just priced out the rotor conversion at Springbank and for 60 hours and 10 hours for turbine indorcement it would cost me 3...

Every year they pull this stunt and there has been alot of pilots on here that have been given the same offer, myself included. Dont waste your money. One hour in the plane for 900 bucks is a lot of money and then if your chosen out of the other 30 or 40 guys there you are rewarded with working for ...

E.I is out of the picture. Iam laid off and on E.I and just tried to get them to help flying out of Calgary and they bluntly said no way is E.I going to be involed any where in avation any more. Why?? the number reason, and this is right out of there mouths. There is not much future for low time pil...

By the sounds of it there are going to be alot of laid of pilots from Air Canada looking for work. Man Im never going to find that first job. Sheeesh.

Hey R.S.C. The schools that I have flown out of and did my ppl, cpl, multi, and multi ifr, all the students went through three flight tests. At the time I did not really care . As I was told it all adds flight time for you and do you ever have enough flight time, but now I look back and wonder why t...

Class 4's may not be superstars but there is nothing wrong with them. In the last five years during training and rides I have had class fours tell me that soft field landings are to be done with no power and if you cant keep the front wheel up were done for the day even when he could not keep the wh...

Im with you S.D. You do a pre test with your instructer, pass it, do another pre test with the class1 or cfi, pass it. Finally you do the real flight test with the Tc guy. So for every step up you are tested three times. An extra 1000 bucks down the drain. So is this the schools fault or Tc at its f...

I had a class one for my multi and it was like some one turned the lights on. He was so far above the class threes and fours that I will never go back to any one but a class one. Experience is a hell of a lot better than the piece of paper that says you can.

R.Bs vete is not that bad. Great guy. Had him all the way through up to multi.

I think almost every one has had a Instructer fall asleep. When I was doing my cross country nights dual mine did and I dont blame her in the least. She would be at the school by 7:00 am and fly all day and then have to fly at night for the night students. Lets see, hmmmmmmmm only a 18 hour day six ...

I think corn shoot means one step forward and four backwards.

Of course cat driver, that piece of paper is far better than someone who has 1000s more hours and more REAL flight time. Im with you.

Trying to read back the tower and terminal instructions with out sounding like a moron or triping over your tongue took a lot of practice. It got a lot easier when one of my instructers finaly pointed out that a lot of the instructions will be the same. If your on 34 going east it will most likely b...

Thats a tuff question. Learn in small or learn in big. When I started a lot of friends and schools said it would be eaiser to learn at a small airport, but driving would have been double so Calgary it was. It cost me more money in the long run and more flight time for the ppl but now that im done im...

Just my two bits. I think location has a lot to do with flight hours. Learning to fly out of yyc added at least 15 hours to my flight time. Schools out of the International will not let you solo until you have at least 10 - 15 of solo under your belt flying out of Springbank or some other small airp...