Can we name names names if we only post the good guys/gals? If people are missing, that doesn't mean they are bad, just not memorable
Please don't post negative, just the people you have come across that stand out as exceptional.
I have 2,
Marlin Penner YVR/YLW. An industry pro that understood the real world.
Heinz Bold YVR. His thoughts were so logical, they were abstract. Always got the i's and t's of checkrides out of the way then he would give scenarios in the sim you would never have thought of.
They may both be retired by now but I learned a lot from both and wish them well. Thanks for keeping it real fellas!
Took my commercial off Heinz. He told me a story about his first
venture into commercial enteprise. Delivered a plane to a farmer in
Alberta. Crash landed. That wasn't bad. What really pissed him off was
it was in the wrong farmers field. Good guy. Could use more like him.
One of my favs was always Martin Brayman (sp?). Had a guy down YYZ way, many years ago, Bruce Carter. Always learned a lot from Bruce...and that SHOULD be what it's all about? Had Stan Penner start to do a ramp check on my Hawker in Rankin, one day.....when he found out it was ME, he thought there'd be WAY to many things wrong to even go there...got to like that attitude! Good guy, Stan.
Must be something about Penner's! I'll add another: Brian Penner in YLW. Very easy to deal with, very knowledgeable, and very willing to find out the answer for you if he doesn't know it already.
Also, don't know how he is now that he's at TC, but Jon Hanik in Prairie Region- Airports is a helluva guy.
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How come nobody has mentioned a gentleman who's name I beleive to be George Smith. His first name escapes me as he was just known as Smitty in YSB. I beleive he's retired now. He'd been pretty much evrywhere and done pretty much everything. Made him one of the most grounded, down to earth, and impressive individuals I've ever met, TC or otherwise.
Fred Lowes and Bill Turcotte in YSB also go way above and beyond...Genuinely Good people. Couldn't have even dreamt of getting an OC without their help...
Fred even rewrote parts of our maintenance manual for us, making changes that would save us tons of time and money...Without being prompted or asked...He just called me up one day and said he'd done it and stamped it and he'd sent a new copy to us and our AMO. He just figured it would help us out...Some good people up there in YSB.
Lee Smith- CYWG. There is not a more helpful honest and down to earth TC inspector then this gentlemen. If TC had 10 more like him it WOULD make a diffrence within their organization.
Cheers Lee! and thanks for everything over the years.
No way i will never tell .I will not ruin the career of the many helpful civil servants that i have found at Transport Canada over the years .
It might cap their career prospects if Da bosses knew who was helping us try to make an honest and safe living in aviation.
I guess i have been lucky i have only encountered the fair knowledgable and honest ones in the last twenty years of dealing with them on all three coasts of Canada and someplaces in between.
Although i did meet one who thought it was all right to fly into an airport watch drag racing on the runway have a beer and fly home again off the same runway after the racing finished
endless wrote:Sharon Chandler (spelling?) from the YHM office. She worked with me on my ATPL sign off and thought she was truly the model public servant.
ABSOLUTELY! She's the only person I've ever dealt with at TC. I was thinking, "Why does everyone think TC employees are duds?"
She even thought it was funny when I sent her correspondence saying something like:
Dear Santa,
For Christmas I would like a Commercial Pilot's licence. I have tried to be a good boy even though my brother bugs me sometimes.
If I get a Commercial Pilot's licence. I promise to fly really safe, and not damage any airplanes.
TC Guy 
