Check with Transport Canada first as you may not be able to apply for your licence booklet without a current medical. Might have to do the medical first. Good point ... I had kept my medical valid and applied for the booklet while still holding a valid Cat III. That being said, it is indeed Industr...

The big difference will be that where once we had a license and a separate medical certificate, these are now bundled together in an 'aviation document booklet'. The application is here http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/wwwdocs/Forms/26-0726E_1306-05_E.pdf Big difference is that the booklet requires a passpor...

Just looking through the lesson plans and notes ... firstly, they are excellent and extremely well put together. Secondly, I suddenly realized that I recognized the handwriting and the name ... not to mention the Voyageur Airways logos. Bede .. I think you may have been my CFI when I did my PPL wit...

Just looking through the lesson plans and notes ... firstly, they are excellent and extremely well put together. Secondly, I suddenly realized that I recognized the handwriting and the name ... not to mention the Voyageur Airways logos. Bede .. I think you may have been my CFI when I did my PPL with...

Been there, done that ... I'd been away just under five years, and prior to that for over 20. I started up with RFC this spring, and was finally signed off to go solo a couple weeks ago. Went up by myself for some slam-n-goes just over a week ago. The main requirements were (and have already been co...

Been there and just done that. I got my license back in 1985 and really didn't do bugger all with it until about 5 years ago. At that time, it took the following to get signed off to solo: - rewriting the PSTAR - rewriting the radio license exam (as Industry Canada had lost all record of my previous...

If it's any consolation, I'm in the 'been there, done that .. actually doing that' phase at the moment. I got my PPL over 20 years ago, but due to a combination of choices and 'life' happening, I really didn't do much with it until just recently. I've been up three times so far .. first time out was...

Probably the biggest irony of this is that Peter Mackay's wife was a graduate from the Pacific Region RGS

One of the students I teach at work is in an Intermediate Communications class. He has social shortcomings and a learning disability. The other day he told me about his gliding experience a week earlier and I've never seen him so excited to share a story. He was looking forward to doing it again! T...

The document is in the DOCS section of the Save Air Cadet Gliding facebook page. It is official. Give us a link. I've been searching for this FB page and can't find it. No results found for "save air cadet gliding" site:facebook.com. It's a secret group .. however over 3500 members so far ... the d...

If it's any consolation, I'm in a similar boat, at the moment as well. Got my PPL back in 1985, with the Air Cadets. Back then there was no requirement for 5 hours instrument, so I got my licence with the bare minimum - 40 hours total time. Did a few duals afterwards (though I did fly a lot in glide...

Firstly, you're not old. I'm in my early 40s and just started getting back into it again since highschool. I got my PPL when I was 17 and really didnt' do anything with it until just recently. If it's any consolation, I was scared out of my wits the first couple of times going up .. and that was wit...

Trenton Air Show in the mid 70s. My dad was an instructor at the Trenton Flying Club so we had free access to the grounds, and could get in the gate before the static displays officially opened to the public. I remember one year, and I couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 years old, heading out the f...

Pissed me off, too .. I missed this year's race, but went last year (Hamilton's first win, and Kubica's horrendous accident), and loved it. Yeah, it was over-priced, and crowded, and all the hotels and B&Bs jacked their rates up for the weekend, but it was undoubtedly the most fun I had in a long ti...

CBC, to me, is both the best and worst of radio. Some shows, already mentioned, like Quirks and Quarks and Vinyl Tap are, IMHO, excellent. Others, like Wiretap and Sean Cullen's 'Simply Sean' drive me completely bonkers, and I've worn indents in my car radio smacking the channel buttons whenever eit...

AuxBatOn wrote:It's not what YOU think that is important but rather, what THEY think about your kind of flying!

Well, it's what I think about their service and products that ultimately matter .. and currently I think very little of either

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... my monthly premiums would be, not 70 bucks per month, but over *200* bucks per month... I have 250,000 of term life insurance and my rate is 17.00 a mth, I am 40 non smoker and fly commercially, try co-operators I just signed my policy last month. I think also the difference may be that you wer...

Never mind the type of flying I do, day VFR, single-engine low-performance is about as safe as general aviation can be. really?? take a look at the last 100 GA accidents...id bet most are in that category although it might be hard to really get an idea of %..because there are so many... maybe your ...

So .. I'm in the process of arranging life insurance, being a new homeowner. I *should* be a pretty low risk .. late 30s/early 40s, healthy, never had a history of any sort of health problems, active, etc .. currently hold a TC Cat III medical, etc. However, my insurance provider has informed me tha...

So .. I'm in the process of arranging life insurance, being a new homeowner. I *should* be a pretty low risk .. late 30s/early 40s, healthy, never had a history of any sort of health problems, active, etc .. currently hold a TC Cat III medical, etc. However, my insurance provider has informed me tha...

Hedley offered an excellent summary .. I recently went through the process, after having been away for over 20(!!) years. This is what was required for me .. (1) Renewed my Cat III medical (2) Replaced my radio license (it had been lost years before, and Industry Canada had no record of me ever havi...

Sounds like 'Crash Addicts'.

http://www.crashaddicts.com/html/show.html

Is this it?

Well, for what it's worth .. I got my PPL back in 1985 (when, as my dad would say, Pontius Pilate was still in flying school), and didn't do a thing with it for over 20 years. Last fall, I started getting checked out again, and as of January, I am once again current and a qualified Private Pilot .. ...

I've been to a couple of the VW open houses, and to the Air Rally at the Rockcliffe airport this summer. I am utterly blown away by how much they've done to bring so many classic aircraft to the public, and how many amazing airplanes they have in their collection. First time I was out, their Corsair...