Your initial ADB will show the medical privileges you have on issue. In this case it will be Cat 3, so that is what the sticker photo in the medical section of the ADB will show. The initial ADB will show the medical certificate the applicant has on issue. Which is a Category 1. There is no such th...

I got a cat 1 medical approx. 2 years ago which then expired about a year ago. This is not correct. A medical never, ever, ever, expires. You hold a category 1 medical unless/until it is revoked by the Minister (which for practical purposes, never happens) or you surrender it. A particular licence ...

As an aside, the wingtip vortices are nicely visible in the dust clouds thrown up by the tires on the first and second contacts.

Does that mean you need both faa and Canadian licenses to cross the US/Canada border then in that plane? If you don't have a Panamanian licence then yes, you would need both national licences for a cross-border flight. Or, you have a crew of two, one with each licence, and switch PIC as you cross t...

I think my original post was vague, its a Panama registered aircraft, currently in the US to be ferried to Canada. Do I need a validation from Panama or can the aircraft be flown as is outside of Panama? Assuming Panama is an ICAO member, then If it has a certificate of airworthiness and a continui...

I think we got here from someone saying that the OP should expect no flight school to want him as an experienced ME/IR instructor because it would put the ab-initio junior instructors' noses out of joint. If that was the position that any FTU took, they would be doing the OP a favour by not employin...

5x5 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 1:08 pm Certainly when customers realize they've been scammed, or when a company doesn't treat its employees and customers with respect, that's when unscrupulous businesses go out of business.

I couldn't disagree more strongly. The world is full of wildly successful unscrupulous businesses.

What's possible in a realistic economic climate is paying instructors an above minimum wage salary, create a nice atmosphere with proper scheduling, and supporting them with student conflicts. Pay a bit more for experience. Students would have one main instructor, perhaps a couple other extra ones ...

True, but you need to give them something to keep them interested in working for low wages. I think you should treat both your instructors and your customers with respect, which means in the first case paying a decent rate, and in the second case, working hard to find the best possible instructors....

True, but you need to give them something to keep them interested in working for low wages. I think you should treat both your instructors and your customers with respect, which means in the first case paying a decent rate, and in the second case, working hard to find the best possible instructors....

digits_ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:01 am]
For most people the answer nowadays is 'whoever can get me the hours quickest'
If giving ME / IFR training hours to current instructors will keep them around longer,...

The more multi hours you give someone, the sooner they'll leave.

So the benefit to a flight school of having someone long-term to only teach those courses can be outweighed by the negative impact on the other instructors. And there was I thinking flight schools were there to give the best service to their students, when all along it was about giving the best ser...

digits_ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:07 am but in retrospect only a mind reader would be able to fully understand that...

I was with you all the way

We should be thinking about the intersection of two spheres then, which (ignoring the the part that would be underground) for the example given is a big nearly semi-circle in a vertical plane, that loops up from a point on the ground 40NM NW of Calgary up to a height of nearly 40nm and back down to ...

I think digits_ did try to make that point.

Draw a circle with radius 40 nm around Calgary and one with radius of 150nm around Edmonton. Where they cross, that's the location of the waypoint. Pedestrian type question, don't the two intersecting circles have two intersecting points on the radii, and thus there would be two possible "waypoints...

We are allowed to discuss any bits we find interesting, and frequently do. I find it noteworthy that often the interesting bits are the small items and not the big ones.

You never need to repeat the initial exam. Even if the last renewal was three decades ago, you still need only a renewal, and the medical validated a licence as soon as the CAME stamps your book.

Telemedicine is at the discretion of the CAME. For an expired medical I would imagine not.

It's so "AvCanada" that a student puts their airplane nose-first through the roof of a hangar, and the part of the analysis that generates the most controversy is how much fuel they had on board at the time.

Oops.

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