Wrote both this week Things that came up SARON: Attitude indicator requirements for transport category aircraft Wake turbulance separation times Calculate speed of sound and some distance questions with Mach numbers provided and charts. Turbine engines De-icing requirements Critical point and PNR Lo...

Hey, I went to Gander Flight Training and for me I was interested in getting through my PPL and CPL quick, get into the industry and start working. I found the PPL too structured and I wasn't able to go very quickly (3 months, although this was in the winter and the weather was an issue!). Once I ha...

I'm gonna call April Fools! I was just thinking of moving to Maui too without a green card.

i.e. don't wait till the 12 months are up otherwise you'll already be expired.

Probably should mention that the 1st day after the first 12 months are past you will be expired unless you were had done the 6-6-6 (covered above). This means that you should probably think about doing 6 hours and 6 approaches a couple of months before the first year is up if you are planning to use...

Just to clarify the above post, the 20 hours sim will not count towards either the dual 35 hour requirement or towards the 200 hour total time for the CPL. Just read my post and that wasn't very clear on my part

If you do the IFR first, 20 hours in the sim and 20 in airplane (you will already have 10 hours as you have a night rating - so 30 to go) then that time will count towards your CPL total time and also the CPL requires 20 hours of instrument time. Whatever you did in the plane for your night dual/ so...

Like you say, lots of conflicting answers! It probably depends on region, I did my CPL in the Atlantic Region, was told that the PTR should only include the 30 solo and 35 dual, only put that in and it got sent back and I had to sort it out. Now I work in the Prairie region, the Edmonton office seem...

Randoms that I got... How lift/drag ratio is changed by aspect ratio Empty field Myopia (and a bunch of other human factors things) The noise level at which hearing loss occurs was there Forces in a turn Forces in equilibrium Forces in a climb Everything else mentioned before was there also, especia...

Does anyone know the ident of the plane?

I think you were asking for family memebers to post here, I'm a pilot with a family so I'll just share my experience so far. I work 8-5 Monday to Friday which is great because my wife pretty much has the same hours. At the moment things work well but we have talked about the day that we will move fo...

I agree the money up front thing is not good, when I started my training the school I was at insisted on lump sums up front (I should note that was not the grande prairie school) and it's pretty difficult to keep track of money when you don't see the bill at the end of the flight. Thankfully when I ...

I actually found Grande Prairie to be a friendly place and enjoyed my time training there, learned a lot. Just wondered what you found to be so bad there ahramin, and have you been there recently? I've been in Grande Prairie since last August (year and a half ago) and have no complaints.

Airway - excellent post thanks for taking the time to write all that

A while back I was inbound with a student and had reported our intentions on frequency, join downwind etc, then a plane called in on final just landing and never stopped transmitting. While everyone was listening to what the two pilots did over the weekend (mike was stuck for about 13 minutes) we jo...

I've been instructing since October 2007 and the PTR's had the F's and R's on the back page for Fam. and Review as well as P D and S. MY CFI said it was fairly new then.

What is the EVAS run reduced to? I know they usewd to do 6 or 8 runs a day QX to YT, I guess they don't anymore. Is it still a daily service just less legs a day or is it only a few times a week now?

First time poster, long time reader! I took my CPL ride last Friday, everything written above is great advice, I tried my best to talk to the examiner about other stuff not related to flying just to relax the mood, it helped me a lot and when the time came to do maneuvers i was relaxed and thought e...