I’ve been trained a RTO is an automatic mayday call. That usually gets everyone’s attention.

The point people are trying to make is, if you want to fly you’ll find a way to make it happen. Plenty of people were still going to flight school after 9/11, many of them stuck with it and made a great career for themselves eventually. If you are second guessing your decision because of recent even...

I do know a few people who have that restriction on their license but I believe they were all at their current employers when that happened. With the difficulties many small operators are having finding pilots I don’t see you having an issue getting a job at one of those. Moving up the ladder in you...

If a potential dip in hiring is making you ask that question then you don’t really want to fly anyway. So yes, you should quit training.

Any word on if there was actually any smoke or just a smoke detector going off?

For private loans, of course, you can spend it anywhere. I was referring to the Ontario program called OSAP where you can only use it against select schools. I was too. I went to a private flight school and received provincial (not Ontario) loans. Damn lucky you bud! Are you from Alberta? Newfoundl...

Pilotdaddy wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:49 am

For private loans, of course, you can spend it anywhere. I was referring to the Ontario program called OSAP where you can only use it against select schools.

I was too. I went to a private flight school and received provincial (not Ontario) loans.

Interesting. I did my training at a ma and pa place on the east coast and had no problem getting loans.

Does Ontario not offer provincial student loans?

Where do you work? I’ve never had any issues even close to those. As annoying as it is the process is normally pretty straight forward.

I’m not sure about transat but I was under the impression most larger carriers weren’t using the 1200 RVR CAT 1 ops Spec any more. Where I work we need at least 1600 for a CAT 1 regardless of lighting.

I should have been more specific, I know “jumpseating” is sitting in the back. I have “jumpseated” with a previous airline gig. Now I’m in a corporate situation and thought I couldn’t anymore until a colleague told me his anecdote. So I have wondered if I could using the system I proposed in my que...

Does TC even ramp check any more? They do, I was ramp checked last year at CYXE, they checked the papers and complained one of the 100LL stickers was getting faded by the filler caps. I suspect you'll only encounter them on sunny days near one of their offices when they want to leave the office ear...

If you really want to travel look for something with a longer rotation time. One of my friends worked 2 months on 2 off at Voyageur. He was basically homeless while he was there. Traveled all over the planet on his time off.

RRSP matching shows up on my pay stub. I don’t consider it part of my salary.

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Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:33 pm

I would work in a slave mine for 280k/h...

And if you want to throw in another layer of cloudiness, what about all the cadet officers that fly tow planes for them with just a PPL and get paid for it? I have a friend who spent every summer while he was in university flying tow planes at the gliding centre to help pay his way through. He said ...

https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/publications/tp14052-menu-314.htm#toc-1267 12.7.1.2 Edited to add for clarity. This is reference and provides guidance. Aircraft skin temp can be different from OAT depending on what it has done recently fuel temps etc. Is that something people actually look a...

For reference, I turn 30 this year. A bit of my background: I have always had a fascination with flying, and spent a lot of my childhood around small airstrips as my Dad was a hobby pilot (gliders, microlights, and a couple of Cessna's). As a kid, I was convinced I'd be an airline pilot one day, bu...

415’s can certainly scoop in the ocean. I’ve seen it done myself. Certainly not ideal but 100% can and is done.

Dr. Gilmore. Awesome guy.

http://www.aeromedicals.ca/

When I checked the Metar last night it was 85G//. I would assume the // means to high to record but I’m not sure. Either way 85kt sustained wind is quite impressive.

The spin method was brought up at the hangar a few times when I was learning to fly gliders. It could work. That being said, when I was a flight instructor I saw plenty of students put themselves into a spiral dive when trying to spin a 172.

The LDA for runway 14 at YHZ is 7700 ft, but what about the fact that the touchdown point for an ILS is not at the threshold? On a light twin you can chop and drop once you're visual (within reason), but what about the big guys? With a stabilized approach following the glidepath right to the ground...

I had about 25 hours of my 200 for my cpl flying cadet famil flights, everything paid for by the Canadian tax payer. Transport didn’t have a problem with it, and they were aware of it. That was in 2010.