Inputs about cooking lake,Edmonton

canadian320 · Post by **canadian320** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:59 pm

Just curious to know about the school and your experiences in it

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:20 pm

Well there's this one instructor there..... nope better not say anymore, I'll get beaten up.

Jeromeo · Post by **Jeromeo** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:58 am

depending on where you live is where you should make your Choice. I got my private licence at cooking lake. It was alright. You'll probably have Orville tell you he can get you a job right seat with Air Canada after you finish your commercial. Which is completely a load of poo poo. The planes are alright when I was there. There are schools around with better planes. Saw a couple things in the hangar to quickly fix an airplane that I would have rather not seen. The thing is that's an uncontrolled airport and when I came out of that airport I was all intimidated by ATC. Didn't really if I was doing everything right. So my suggestion is to look up centennial or namao flying club. EFC is alright too

jetway · Post by **jetway** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:42 am

canadian320 wrote:Just curious to know about the school and your experiences in it

Went there a few years back for a casual rental (wanted to take up a few friends I had living in the YEG area for scenic flights) and wasn't too impressed by the "checkout". There was maybe a 10 knot crosswind ( no big deal) and when I put the flaps down, the instructor put them back up on me when they were in transit and said not to use flaps in a crosswind. I realize flaps are not necessary, but you got 'em, why not use them? What I really didn't like was the fact that he didn't seem to know the answer as to why he wouldn't use flaps in a 10 knot crosswind.
Other minor airmanship things made me go to YXD for the flights. Those are my experiences.

EchoNovemberAlpha · Post by **EchoNovemberAlpha** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:26 am

Does YXD have VOR-DME and/or ILS facilities? What's a good place to do an instrument rating; but same time avoid stuff like landing fees

at YYC...

pika · Post by **pika** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:29 pm

Does YXD have VOR-DME and/or ILS facilities? What's a good place to do an instrument rating; but same time avoid stuff like landing fees at YYC...

If you do an IFR at YXD plan on all of your approaches at YEG.

EchoNovemberAlpha · Post by **EchoNovemberAlpha** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:08 pm

Thanks mate...was acyually trying to be a bit optimistic about being able to do that at YXD itself

Dunno how YEG compares with YYC regards traffic...and also how kindly they'll accommodate a Cessna doing missed approach

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shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:07 am

EchoNovemberAlpha wrote:Thanks mate...was acyually trying to be a bit optimistic about being able to do that at YXD itself Dunno how YEG compares with YYC regards traffic...and also how kindly they'll accommodate a Cessna doing missed approach ...

YEG's a hugely busy place; sometimes you even see the airplane in front of you.

WRX · Post by **WRX** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:20 am

We go to YEG a lot for IFR training. and the controllers are awesome. It's much better than calgary and usually you will get what you want with rare speed restrictions. and no landing fees.

We also go to camrose and wetaskiwin for uncontrolled airport training.

CYXD 34 has ILS and 16 has LOC/BC/DME. so we sometimes go to whitecourt to do VOR approaches (part of cross-country)

canadian320 · Post by **canadian320** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:05 pm

Hey I saw in cooking lake aviation wesite that they have a multi and costing $255(dual) good deal,is there ny one who got trained or experiences in their multi a/c.

Jeromeo · Post by **Jeromeo** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:34 pm

when I was there they had an aztec. I'm not sure if that's still the story. Either way that plane was a piece of crap. My instructor always had to do manual gear extensions because it constantly crapped out. It was always in for maintenance.

EchoNovemberAlpha · Post by **EchoNovemberAlpha** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:20 am

Anyone have any experiences with Centennial at YXD? Do they still have the Seneca?

Hey I saw in cooking lake aviation wesite that they have a multi and costing $255(dual) good deal,is there ny one who got trained or experiences in their multi a/c.

Most of em have websites and rates etc not updated for months...if not years! Not very helpful...Not a good idea to go by what websites say anyways...

electraguy · Post by **electraguy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:30 pm

Yo,

Did my training at CEX3(Wetaskiwin) at Wetaskiwin Air Services. It was several years ago but the A/C were great and the instructors were very good. Its good for uncontrolled and your only .3 hop over to YEG. As for YEG compared to YYC, YEG is better for training, alot quiter airspace and some great staff in the tower. YXD is a blast to fly into and is a great airport for night training. ANyways I would recommend Wetaskiwin Air Services to anyone looking to fly. My two cents...........

Cod Father · Post by **Cod Father** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:41 pm

The Cooking Lake guy?! Yeah, three years ago he was in the "Pre-Purchasing Stages" of a C-172 on floats. Still don't think they got it.

Reliable source witnessed a maintenance practice he would have no part of.

There was another company that came in and was giving some healthy competition at EZ3 but the name escapes me.

LinksInAChain · Post by **LinksInAChain** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:35 am

Cod Father wrote:The Cooking Lake guy?! Yeah, three years ago he was in the "Pre-Purchasing Stages" of a C-172 on floats. Still don't think they got it.

Reliable source witnessed a maintenance practice he would have no part of.

There was another company that came in and was giving some healthy competition at EZ3 but the name escapes me.

Heh - I forgot about the "float plane coming any day"... Good ol Orv... That lake will have LONG dried up before he gets anything on floats!

Oh well, at least maintenance has tidied it's act up since the new guy came.

You're thinking about Storm Aviation, and I'm pretty sure they're operating out of the Shell/Altaflights hanger at YEG now.

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