I'd suggest getting a modest Airbnb downtown. You can easily walk to the Canada line train and be at the airport in about 35 mins. Living in a hotel near the airport is lame. If you are on reserve but not finished line indoc you likely won't get called in often (if at all). It might not be the absol...

Reserve definitely depends on how many people are hired into your assigned base on your equipment below you. Prepare for the worst case scenario and cross your fingers for the best. I only did one month on reserve and now I'm holding a flying block (horseshoes, I guess). During my training, they wo...

Reserve definitely depends on how many people are hired into your assigned base on your equipment below you. Prepare for the worst case scenario and cross your fingers for the best. I only did one month on reserve and now I'm holding a flying block (horseshoes, I guess). During my training, they wou...

Interesting would be a polite term

Ditto on remarks above.

Thanks

Doing some research and thought I'd add a few questions to this old thread... I'm in a similar boat as the OP was (slightly less TT, half is PIC from instructing days, building ME from the RS of a king air). Movement is almost non existent at the company I work at. Would it be foolish to make a move...

Can anyone who has been hired recently (and especially under the new agreement) please tell me how the experience has been compared to what they were told during the interview and training processes (and compared to the noise on Avcanada)?
PM is preferred.

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To the OP, Quality - you could always ask to see a record of successful flight tests. Just remember that passing a flight test can be extremely easy if you've spent all of your training flying the flight test and therefore can be a completely useless measure. Cost - there will be small variances in ...

@rockie50- I was talking about special vfr. My ppl (and probably my cpl as well) instructor certainly was not experienced in svfr flight. Yet I was perfectly legal to go fly svfr on day one of my license. Using a few brain cells, one would realise it would be foolish to do so. It's no different for ...

I can't recall the schools, but I've run into different pilots who said that their schools/clubs didn't allow training in IMC. I continue to be amazed and saddened by people's willingness to berate flight training using innuendo and unfounded claims. Here's someone who claims they met "some pilots"...

Senior commercial and class 2 IFR sound great. Is there a way to still ensure quality instruction is past on from the mentor to the mentored? A check (God, I could use a couple extra cheques) or a balance perhaps? I can still remember the day my lefty hastily told me he was "lighting up all the anti...

I'm almost 100% sure that none of elementary or high school (and probably not even my university) instructors had any real world experience. So screwy...

We also did open book tests annually on the MCM, relevant POHs, ramp proc's, OHS, etc (I don't remember being paid for this time). Aircraft familiarization and/or airspace familiarization (if needed) was done by a more senior instructor usually (at the school's expense). Because most of the new hire...

thats a U.S. dollar figure. With a dollar around .80 that puts the value of an oz to just under $1650 I do see that. However, gold has been steady around 1300USD (with the odd flux higher or lower) for the better part of 1.5 years while the CAD has been steadily trucking downward to a 20% decline i...

Last I checked, gold was still below $1300/oz. thats a U.S. dollar figure. With a dollar around .80 that puts the value of an oz to just under $1650 I do see that. However, gold has been steady around 1300USD (with the odd flux higher or lower) for the better part of 1.5 years while the CAD has bee...

But! Oil is up for the 3rd day in a row!

Last I checked, gold was still below $1300/oz.

I was in exactly your situation at the beginning of this year (but sitting at about 1200-ish hours). I had been applying to many companies but was starting to think that the ground option was my only option. It didn't make sense to me that someone with flying experience would be put on the ground. O...

It has been mentioned in the sticky post itself but this might draw more attention; the links for the contrails matrices seem to be broken. Anyone able to fix this?

Thanks again for the replies. I've got it figured nicely.

K