I was a student, then an instructor and have moved on... the majority of instructors I knew 2+years ago, who had any multi time, are now FO's/Capt's, of the following companies, PAL, Air Georgian, Skylink, EVAS, Thunder, Wasaya, Jazz, Porter. Former students of mine left at the 200hr mark and are on...

This will be my 4th year operating commercially, 2nd in a 703 operation. Ive just cleared the 50K hurdle, as a Capt, working on a light turbine.

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the only two operators that I know of are: Voyageur (air ambulance, on website) and the Irvings.

anywho, were neighbours!

i currently commute out of yqm, but I DO NOT work for an airline. Im fortunate that my company has standby deals with jazz and porter. ive been commuting for the last 2 years, and my thoughts are: - its so cheap - i find it stressful, on a good day i get on borh flights on the first try, on bad days...

Alarm goes off. Im kind of groggy, it is a saturday after all. Without even sitting up, I call dispatch. "Hey, is my student there?" "Yep, youre on NKX," "See ya in a bit." Thank god its not a no show today. Even at this stage in a students training, I still call dispatch to make sure THEY havent sl...

departed Toronto island in a moo-two after a Q... in a bid to get us out before multiple inbounds we were cleared with "caution wake turbulence" 45sec after previous traffic... we briefed the "when we hit wake turbulence," and sure enough we did... we went from wings level to a 50 deg roll... glad w...

I wake up at 0700, with the plan at being the airport for 0830, departure at 0930. Do the morning routine, shit, shower, shave, and just about the time Im plunging the coffee press, dispatch calls. "Weve got an earlier departure, and a different location." My 1.5hr headstart has now been reduced to ...

The Ornge contract requires 500MPIC to be capt.
Last 7 guys/gals had at least 400MPIC from instructing, made up the rest through supervised PIC... flying 5+hrs a day, and it doesnt take long to get to the 500 mark

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It was kind of funny yesterday, I work for an air ambulance out fit and we spent the whole day btw YHM-YTZ and YOW, and all the various operators and controllers were a bit confused with waypoint idents and phonetics. We usually just file direct, and when copying down the clearance its a crapshoot, ...

I managed to make 40000$ as a Class2

22/hr MIFR/sim
25/groundschool
100/CPL nav prog

650hrs of flying, usually 6 days a week, 12hr/day, 2 weeks of vay cay.
I think when my co-workers and I did the math we were makin about 5$ per hour, esp. on the foggy/icing days

ive been reciprocal jumpseating with you guys and I appreciate the service, but a quick question: on the quick turns, or, when flights are late, when is the best time to come up and thank you? usually as im entering the a/c ill look in and see if you guys are still doin the checks/punching in number...

CMA = central mountain air

check this out for companies across canada:
http://www.pilotcareercentre.com/Search ... e/1/Canada

rigpiggy wrote:how many of the 21 were managers

3 were managers (all qualified to be line instructors)
a few were admin, accountants etc.
dispatchers
line instructors
maintenance

MFC will survive another day to do flight training

http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/f ... le/1382827

I trained a Canadian, who got his PPL in Canada, but then went to Oz, and finished his CPL, got his MIFR, instructor rating and then 1200 odd hours in Oz. On his return, he had to do his Commerical conversion, (written and flight test). He had to to do his IFR group 1 rating (written and flt test). ...

sounds like you know what you want. so go for it. there is no set path to get to a Jazz/WJ/AC... you may win the life lottery and get that coveted Seneca entry... but you may not. so whats your backup plan? Fortunately or unfortunately, however you look at it, the people Ive personally taught or met...

So Im kinda curious what does your Dad say now? Your path is exactly what I went through. I finished a liberal arts degree, and thought, "what next?" difference was, I did not have any family in the biz. I went to a flight college, did their "integrated program," finished in 11mos, got my instructor...

DOC +1 it may be a conflict of interest as a flight instructor, but even now i realize you have to instill in students to enjoy the ride . even fellow instructors are chomping to get MPIC time, cause its going to get them to that coveted turbine job. i had this discussion with a buddy today, would y...

Its been my experience yelling, i think, will not help the situation at all, rather, passive aggression seems to work better :lol: just think about when your mom, teacher, friend, idiot who sits across from you, instructor etc. yells at YOU, and what do you do, give up. however, to answer the questi...

sounds like a great trip. ive never done the golden horseshoe, but i am based in NB. even if you DONT plan on landing in the US of A, bring a passport just in case. Ive known students to land in northern maine due to mechanicals, with no passport, and they got deported, without an airplane. If you d...