SAIT in Calgary offers a railraod conductor program. Aviation equivalent would be flight engineer or second officer. While attending SAIT you can work in the CPR yard as a locomotive washer for $24.00/hour. When you start riding the rails, give me a call, I have delivered pizza to the CPR crossing i...

I shared this joke at work today, and was told; "that doesn't work here, we are not monkeys."

Tomorrow I will bring in a sprayer.

I generally limit my coffee consumption, to occasions when I am not going flying or driving. I have also drastically cut back on my iced tea and water consumption, since my C-152 flight from Edmonton to Saskatoon. I am very glad that I had my widemouth Nalgene bottle with me. I ended up dumping the ...

Talking with some NAVCANADA and Environment Canada guys, much of the FIC/FSS system is based on the American system. They copied a lot of the American briefing standards, and inadvertantly became concerned with liability. Apparently, if a pilot gets a weather briefing in the United States, and then ...

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Edmonton born and raised here! After checking the transit map to refresh my memory, I see that the neighborhoods you are looking at are in the north east, along the north bank of the river. They are good neighborhoods, but as downtown east gets cleaned up, the river is pushing the criminal element n...

Everyone vouching for the credit unions, Yes they are nice to deal with, have lower fees, and many share profits, but as pilots, beware of mobility. If you change cities, you are not able to change branches, you have to change credit unions. Changing credit unions is the same as changing banks, and ...

I had a group af Japanese Tourists on my bus. We were going for a tour from Lake Louise up the Icefiled Parkway, and back to Banff. While loading the luggage at Lake Louise, I overheard some other drivers talking about a plane hitting the WTC (assumed it was a Cessna). The rest of the day we were ou...

zc, I hope that you are having some success. I have just finished my training at the Moncton Flight College. I have trained in Alberta (Edmonton and Calgary), and I agree with the info posted here so far. Although, I do not recommend going for perfect weather. I went to Moncton specifically for the ...

I agree that the Labour Codes (federal and provincial) appear to provide lttle protection for employees, however, I do not think that it is a good idea to rely on government regulations. I have worked as a general employee, a supervisor, and in a union. In all positions, I worked outside of the labo...