AI is already a major operational factor—it’s just framed as “automation” today. No, these are 2 extremely different concepts. With automation X happens and Y will be executed, decided within milli or microseconds. With (what we refer to today as) AI when X happens, sometimes Y will happen, sometim...

Found some more recent information, I found this interesting and almost possibly the reason it might never be common. https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7590/6/1/3 “with potential 10–15% operational cost savings offset by certification, cybersecurity, and infrastructure expenditures” In other words no real ...

Autonomous airplanes already exist. The technology is there. Next step is to convince governments and the public that it's safe, and possibly optimize the ATC systems to deal with them. I would guess this will take at least 20 years. And we already have 60 year old planes flying around today. The b...

Autonomous airplanes already exist. The technology is there. Next step is to convince governments and the public that it's safe, and possibly optimize the ATC systems to deal with them. I would guess this will take at least 20 years. And we already have 60 year old planes flying around today. The bu...

He's on PPrune as well, still active there.

Interesting fact (that I learnt the hard way) if you or your student doesnt have Canadian passport, Visa Waiver Program doesnt apply for private aircraft without a special agreement, so you would need a B1/B2 visa Permanent residents should be fine as well. No; no special concessions for Canadian p...

CXALE wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 8:57 am Interesting fact (that I learnt the hard way) if you or your student doesnt have Canadian passport, Visa Waiver Program doesnt apply for private aircraft without a special agreement, so you would need a B1/B2 visa

Permanent residents should be fine as well.

Thank you!

That's correct (obviously) - but the 6 hours instrument flight requirement ("acquired six hours of instrument time; and") is being removed at the same time. So a couple of practice sessions of 3 quick approaches to minimums each and you're done. Yeah I just picked up on that! Positive change overal...

I'm not sure that operating procedures for geared turbocharged engines are very relevant to help decide how to operate an IO 520

That's correct (obviously) - but the 6 hours instrument flight requirement ("acquired six hours of instrument time; and") is being removed at the same time. So a couple of practice sessions of 3 quick approaches to minimums each and you're done. Nice! (also much easier to pencil whip :mrgreen: )

Is it legal? Yes. Several Instructors from the St Catharines Flying Club did it in 2016. Accident Report and Docket . There is no requirement for cross-border navigation in the PPL flight training. You should have a cross-border lesson plan that covers USA differences eg flight planning and weather...

We're a large school and unfortunately, the CFI and accountable executive provide very little to no supervision with little guidance. That's really alarming. Yup! It's alarming for me too! I almost got my class 2. Currently applying every school around that is decent. In the meantime, since my curr...

I can't find a reference that would make it illegal, and colleagues of mine have done it a few years ago. Pretty sure you're good to go. Be aware though that the student pilot permit is only valid in Canada. So absolutely no solo flying (or anything else that requires the student pilot permit) in th...

But yes, it's definitely possible to do it at 1g, although not at 200-300AGL. Not for the full turn perhaps, but allow me to clarify. The report and some replies above seem to imply that if the 60 degree level turn stall speed is 95 mph, and you're turning at 40 degrees bank angle at 90 MPH and the...

Note that it is perfectly possible to do a 1g turn with 70 degrees bank angle, if you sacrifice some altitude. Also note that we are talking about a Cessna 206, not an airliner. A very responsive airplane where bank angles can change rapidly if initiated by the PIC. I don't think the exact bank angl...

Autoland will permeate all GA sectors, though. It’s too good of an idea not to. CAPS comes with a performance penalty and becomes increasingly impractical with a larger aircraft which is why it’s pretty much limited to Cirrus and a few smaller planes. Maybe. There are still commercial operators fly...

So many false warning reports. It is -20 outside and people get injured in evacuations. Stop, do the drill, look outside and monitor, advise the cabin crew to also monitor, be ready to evacuate..... C-GAIG, a Boeing 737-200 operated by Air Inuit Ltd. under the registration AIE705, was scheduled to ...

Not the first time two pilots were having fun. Visit pinnacle air 3701. Tragedy caused by stupidity. Quite a different scenario. Pinnacle Air didn't exceed any limitations initially. They did mess up the recovery, and were hiding their emergency situation for too long. It was more an incompetent re...

Without this new privacy disclosure, does TC not already have the right to demand you to get documents XYZ from doctors ABC or refuse your medical? Seems like this disclosure allows them to get the info themselves, potentially making it harder for some to falsify records or documents? Not a good ev...

Without this new privacy disclosure, does TC not already have the right to demand you to get documents XYZ from doctors ABC or refuse your medical? Seems like this disclosure allows them to get the info themselves, potentially making it harder for some to falsify records or documents? Not a good evo...

That's what those thorough lesson plans are for, even if I don't actually cover every point in them in a normal PGI. They are there to remind me of the details in case a student/examiner asks me a deep question and I forget something. Allow me to ask again: how long are those thorough lesson plans?...

After you've finished your CPL, you *should* already have all the knowledge needed to teach a PGI. The instructor course *should* be focusing on how to effectively teach the stuff. Not deciding what should be taught, but how it should be taught. The PGI lesson plan usually deals with the 'what', wh...

Having instructors write their own lesson plans is, in my opinion, just a waste of time. I was very gratefuly class 1 was like minded and provided me with his lesson plans which I went through and slightly adjusted where his notes didn't make sense to me. Took 2 days. They were also all bullet poin...

the main bottleneck is how fast they can build their lesson plans. Are students all still doing this themselves? Can't they just copy stuff from their classmate? After all the content should be very similar. You definitely could, but you'd get destroyed in the check ride. The instructor flight test...