Congratulations. I've seen quite a few adventurous Canadians make that trip and all successfully land a job. I'd suggest that you take the opportunity to renew your instructor rating before you leave as it will win you some respect in Africa at your level of hours. You might even need it for job if ...

Cornwall happens to be nicely located between Montreal and Toronto without their traffic or Air Nav fees and or the expensive overheads. They are an Multi-IFR "mill" that churns out a very high number on a production line that gets you out the door completed in a minimum amount of time. Just make th...

The statistics are noteworthy. Cornwall Aviation do more IFR renewals than anywhere else in Canada. It may look like a country airfield but if there is one word I would use is "productive". You can have the greatest most modern looking facilities with models in uniforms walking about but at the end ...

These sorts of posts are pure advertizing, the posters seem to think they are being clever when the reality is, those sorts of games reflect negatively. Personally, I chose a school where I don't pay government nav fees for every flight that also involves significant taxi time, and flying to and fro...

A pilot's licence and or instructor's rating c can have little guarantee that the holder can either fly or impart knowledgels A pilot's licence and or instructor rating can provide the holder delusions that they can fly or teach and, pass on similar delusions to further generations of pilots all of ...

Well a lot of people will be pissed off by this post, but, here is my not so humble opinion. I cringe at reading all the nonsensical ideas such as, you need a cushion to see over the nose, slow down, hold the nose up to the end of the runway, slow down etc. "Trouble with landings", generally, means ...

There will always be the job as CFI guaranteed if you do your CPL training and Instructor training as part of the incestuous Canadian Flight Training ideas used by colleges etc to guarantee their students jobs as instructors. Business and politics have more to do with flight training than genuine ex...

I notice the TC exams show few questions on this subject. In other countries you have to know it backwards. Canada seems to allow almost anything under special permissions that would not likely be granted in other jurisdictions. I've seen close on 150 hours in less than two weeks and it's hard to no...

Anyone knowing the Identity of Oldjustagigolo77 at Prune
please advise by pm.

This poster Oldjustagigolo77 (Pprune ID - has another ID on AvCanada)
has been engaged in some personal defamation
and I'd ask anyone who knows the identity to contact me
via private mail.

Canada has a long history of an apathetic approach to duty time and flight time limitations
that seem to be justified by the long summer days and seasonal work.

It's only a matter of time before that apathy results or at least
contributes to an accident.

It's a tragic number that is never ending reminder of the realities of life especially to those who wish to stay alive. Hopefully someone will fill us in on how and why this accident occurred. This is a video taken from one of his goPro the day before the accident, on saturday, same place, same prog...

One lesser known feature of swapping an FAA IFR for a Canadian is that you only get "one kick of the can". You can't do it any other time and while you may be exempt of a flight test, that only works once. From there on, each requires it's own renewal, your FAA and IPC an old fashioned renewal in Ca...

You may have no idea of "what it is about" So I'll respond. The Colonel has opinions like everyone else however his are more outspoken. While I don't agree with his political views for example, I've rarely seen anything on basic flying, flight instruction or airmanship that was not a valuable contri...

Speaking of Pitt's pilots,

Can anyone explain why the Colonel's posts have disappeared?

Has a moderator gone nuts again?

It's disappointing to see the moderator's "banning" the colonel and then "shutting down" that thread. My opinion, is that opinions are like rectums, everyone has one, and it appears that because someone want's to play god, with their power, and ban one poster that has done a deal for Canadian Aviati...

The actions of the "moderator/s" who banned the Colonel demonstrate their own personality disorders in such a draconian action. These are the low lifes who believe that no one is entitled to an opinion that they disagree with. They are generally control freaks, who do what is called "Spit the dummy"...

Career wise, you will NOT have any trouble in converting your licence, and the process is relatively easy. The hardest exam is the INRAT and you can do that on line and test yourself with the online study. The other exams and requirements will be easy for you. Your first medical is a bit extra by wa...

Especially when it comes to someone who isn't a anglo-saxon heterosexual Christian male. Canada, is incredibly politically correct, you have to take reasonable care, as may be deemed to be done politically correct, in order that you heaven forbid, say anything that might not be approved by those wh...

With your time and experience odds are you might find a job rather quickly so that I'll run through the substantive ones. First, make sure you have a certified Log Book. Your time is recognized, the experience will be checked off. Your initial medical will require the lot including Xrays which means...

Dito, I've seen quite a few junior instructors, as I shall call them, go to a turbine job on a few hundred hours with little multi experience. But, if you are thousands of hours multi turbine and instructing, it's a lot easier to get a job on a King Air than it is to get a job instructing. I'd agree...