Looking for Gyroplane Instructor

[CamAero]

Looking for a flight instructor with a gyroplane rating in Western Canada.

Please post or PM if you have ideas??

CA

[lownslow]

I don't believe gyroplane is a rating, it's a whole license of its own. I looked into doing it myself last year but decided the money would be better spent on 100LL for the various fixed wing airplanes I'm lucky enough to fly.

If there's no one to do it out west and you're up for a trip, there's a gyro school in Guelph, ON.

[CamAero]

I don't believe gyroplane is a rating

STD 421.20

(4) Experience
(a) An applicant shall have completed a minimum of 45 hours pilot flight training in gyroplanes under the direction and supervision of the holder of a flight instructor rating-gyroplane.

http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/r ... 1-1086.htm

It's a permit for the student-come-licensee but a rating for an instructor, the way I read it anyhow.

I am not too excited about travelling to Guelph, but that might be the way to go.

CA

[bmc]

1. Be careful
2. Good luck
3. Have fun

I think Panama Jack has time on those, as well as Boeings and Airbus. Might be a good resource.

[Colonel Sanders]

CAR 101.01(1):

"category" - means

(a) when used in reference to flight crew licensing, the classification of aircraft as an aeroplane, a balloon, a glider, a gyroplane, a helicopter or an ultra-light aeroplane

A gyroplane is a different category of aircraft than
you have previously flown (e.g. aeroplane, helicopter,
ultralight, etc) and as such will have it's own sticker
(reflecting a category-specific licence or permit) for
your ADB.

See CAR 421.20 for requirements.

N.B. A RPP, PPL (or higher) in any category of aircraft
acts as a SPP for any other category of aircraft. This makes
an astounding amount of sense, given that an RPP/PPL/CPL
holder should have a medical, and know his way around a
PSTAR.

P.S. I think . used to be a gyroplane instructor.
He isn't allowed to post here any more, so maybe
contact him directly. He might know who's still doing
that on the west coast.

[shurshot17]

I would recommend looking in Kindersly, Saskatchewan. A company there builds gyro coptors (or used to), Im sure there would still be an instructor hanging around. Company was called Rotary Air Force.

1107 - 9th St. W.,
Kindersley SK, S0L 1S0
tel: 306-463-6030
fax: 306-463-6032
website: http://www.raf2000.com


Yes outta business.. sorry, here is why
http://www2.canada.com/saskatoonstarpho ... 8d8c965b93

[Posthumane]

I don't recall the instructor's name, but there is one in Medicine Hat (CYXH), and at least three gyros based at the airport. Not sure if you'd be able to rent one though, I think they are all privately owned so unless you have your own...

Edit: According to this website the instructor in Med Hat might be Larry Ellerman. Not sure how up to date that is. The Gyros I've seen here are indeed the RAF2000's as in the above post.

[AirFrame]

A few people in our local RAA chapter tossed around the idea of building a few gyroplanes as a group project. There were anywhere from half a dozen to a dozen people interested, all of whom had fixed wing licenses, and one of whom had many hours in gyroplanes as a youngster growing up in the UK... But nobody with a gyroplane license.

They talked to many people at Transport Canada about it, and were met with a generous helping of stonewall. It seems Transport isn't interested in licensing amateur-built gyroplanes, and isn't interested in helping anyone get licensed on gyroplanes. There are only one or two instructors current in Canada right now, one in Ontario or Quebec and (judging from the post above) another in Alberta. The person back east said he would come out to the west coast if we could put together a critical mass of students, but we'd have to pay to have him and his dual gyro to come out... It wouldnt' be cheap.

In the end the project was abandoned. It really sounds like if you want to fly Gyroplanes, you'll need deep pockets to get the license, and deeper pockets and a lot of patience to get one built and certified. It sounded like they didn't want MD-RA inspecting them either, as nobody there is qualified, so it would have to be someone from Transport. On an "as time permits" basis, because that's the only way they do things for the Amateur-built segment right now.