Well, I'm off on another road trip (since finding work over internet during fall/winter proved fruitless). Heading west from Eastern ON. Short of Manitoba, I've got places to sleep across the country, but, outside of that, does anyone have any last minute advice?

(For those wondering, 900TT/100PIC)

If it's a relatively quiet MF (ie: YPL, YMO), sure, I could see doing the bare minimum calls. My thinking is that doing the bare minimum at a busy MF (ie: YXL, YTS) isn't a great idea, since, if you're waiting till 5.01 until calling, there's usually a good chance that at 5.20 someone with a minute-...

Also, if you know the controller's busy, and you get a big change, tell the controller before you start flipping switches. Worst case scenario, they'll give you a "yeah yeah, whatever", best case, you avoid colliding with someone because of an altimeter change.

So, would I be correct in saying that Jazz is basically going to be a Dash 8 airline (and I guess Voyageur is the CRJ/International branch of Chorus now?)

So, all of this hubbub is because he, being a proactive customer, has notified AC of his mobility needs. Fair enough, but the fact remains that it is possible that the needs for mobility cannot be accommodated with the aircraft which serves the route. I don't know this, just surmising based upon wh...

The enumerated grounds of discrimination are outlined in Section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They are: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. There are also analogous grounds but this is a more complicated issue beyond the scop...

fish4life wrote:It looks like an Airbus A400 and a CL-415 had a child that neither wanted to keep.

Kind of looks more like a Dash 7 and a Grumman Goose's illegitimate child?

I'd say you don't even need to speak French. Really! All you need to do is learn the terms for take off, downwind (which is sometimes "le downwind"), final, French numerals (Runway Twenty-Ten... what a language!), and the words for the compass directions (which, let's be honest, sound almost like En...

photofly wrote:Is there a TC single engine rating?

It's the first "S" if you collect the whole SMELS acronym!

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flyinhigh wrote:They are issued if you are successfully accepted to be employed by a company.

Really? I got mine from the back counter at a place that sells T-shirts on Yonge St.

Isn't there a stand or two at the Pacific Mall as well?

If this forum had any balls, they'd have a "wall of shame" with all the scammers who want "up front cash" "training bonds" "ramp time" etc before a commercially licensed pilot could get a FLYING job. ... and then the companies would be free to post names of pilots who agreed to stay for X amount of...

If I were in your position I would buy a Cessna 150 or 152. You can find a good one for 20-30k, there is lots of reading to do before you write a check for a training aircraft Emphasis mine. There are several good threads about buying an aircraft around here, I would suggest going through them very...

CpnCrunch wrote:It doesn't seem very useful, as you still need the same amount of dual and solo time.

That's why I said "almost free". (You do still need to wait around till night, and have a willing instructor to wait with you!)

If I can do my 5 TO/LD, 6 hours on water on a 172 before I go, and get my float rating signed off after the hour, I'm in. Now, to find that extra 25 thousand...

Personally, a bare CPL (ie: no float, night, instrument, or multi endorsements) is... kind of useless. You're limited to basically day, single engine, VFR operations. Now, there are jobs out there that only need that (pipeline patrol, some smaller survey work, drop zones), but even those might need ...

10 weeks in the summer is realistic* and doable** As others have said, * - If the weather cooperates, ** - Provided that you can be at the airport 5-7 days a week, and make flying a full-time commitment. Make sure you also budget an extra 15-25% of whatever price you're quoted, since it is likely th...

co-joe wrote:You know what else is fun, cheap, and loggable? Glider PIC time. And it makes you a better pilot.

Ugh. Damn it, co-joe, why did you have to bring gliders up? Now I'm tempted to go do that on my next days off... how am I supposed to afford it on an FO salary, you monster?!

So clearly the problem is you. Give everyone a break and cease your idiot postings. Seriously. It's been going on for almost 2 years. Let me peer into my crystal ball. Ah, yes a picture is forming... NickyNick never graces this thread with a response. AvCanada regulars (and lurkers) breathe a sigh ...

... they have a waiver from TC to write the full exams without the flight time and they do not need the 250 hours to obtain an SIC type rating. A waiver on a CPL? Last I checked (since I'm in that great "finished training with less than 250" club), the 250 is a hard minimum for First Officer in a T...

Of course I rememberd that an airplane climbs better without flaps, so I raised them. I forgot about the initial sink. I managed a 100 fpm climb I did my PPL in the winter, and got it early spring. The program then switched us into a different type, and by the time I got solo work in it, it was a 3...

you can never be too safe, and so you can never have too many CADORS reports about you, right? CADORs are supposed to be about "occurrences" which are abonormal. I humbly suggest that if there is a pile of CADORs about you or your organization (that aren't all initiated by someone with an axe to gr...

When you enter cloud for real, you don't get those little glimpses of the ground, so you have to fully put your trust in the AI. Not even necessarily when you're in cloud either. We were dodging stacks today (yay, summer), and I can confirm that being surrounded by clouds with no reference to horiz...

What co-joe said. That, and (like when you do when you go flying) use all your resources. Stuck on a weird abbreviation? Check the abbreviation sheet. Can't figure out how to do an obscure question? Skip it, and come back to it later. Can't remember how to calculate alternate minimums? Ok, that one ...

There was another thread out on the flight training forum in regards to something like what you're trying to do. It might be useful to maybe look into trying to get more flying done this summer - or at least try to get out a few times a month during the school year. I say that because, at the 10 hou...

Things could have been much worse! Thanks to the Ontario Government, all those useless wind turbines you see in the not too distant background would have certainly been a factor in the pilots decision of where to land, and what his approach path would have been. There is currently a fight in Collin...