The national average score on the PPL flight test last year was around 84 and about 80% of applicants passed the test. To get the results for Canada, a specific region, or your own instructor record contact your local TC Inspector and he/she should be able to print it off for you. It is also broken ...

I would say that repetition is the strategy that has been employed up to this point but hasn't been working. Practice is going to be required but is what's being practiced correct? Is there a way to make the practice more efficient and result more consistent? As for the precision 180 it is very hard...

Hello everyone, I know there are some relatively experienced instructors who frequent this forum and I have a question maybe you can help me with. Why are the forced approach (control/approach portion) and the precision 180 so poorly done on flight tests? Is there a better way to teach these exercis...

I sent you a PM.

-M

No. I personally argued this point with a very unpleasant so-called "civil servant" in Toronto by the name of Donna Vogel. I took the position that if an FTU did not take money "on account", it was clearly not a "private career college". She told me she didn't care - if an FTU offered either commer...

I'm thinking about going to Jazz but I have a few questions that I hope someone who already works there can answer for me. My ultimate goal is to go to Air Canada and I am wondering if going to Jazz can help me accomplish that goal. 1) I've heard that you will automatically get an interview with AC ...

You would need a Flight Training Unit Operator Certificate, which is a little different from a 702,703,704 or 705 OC

Check out:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/gener ... 2/menu.htm

Hope that helps,
M

An applicant shall have completed a minimum of: (i) 50 hours of cross-country flight as pilot-in-command in aeroplanes or helicopters of which 10 hours must be in the appropriate category; and (ii) 40 hours of instrument time of which a maximum of 20 hours may be instrument ground time. The 40 hour...

Just get them to issue you an American Private License based on your Canadian License. All you need to do is fill out the form (see link below), send copies of your license, medical and proof of Canadian citizenship. Wait about three months and they will send you a letter saying you can pick up your...

Thanks that helps. I'm going to look more into this though. It just doesn't seem right that TC can dictate what you can and cannot do in your time off. I know plenty of 704, 705 pilots who own private aircraft and fly for fun on their days off, I even know a few instructors, I'll have to find out wh...

If you're flying for an op and instruct on the side, yes, be concerned. If you're just instructing and only instructing you have no concerns.... Why does it change? So if I fly 150 hours of instruction in one month (I wish) I don't have to worry about it and the limitations don't apply but then I s...

I am just studying for the IATRA exam and reading through CARS 700.15, 700.16 and I am wondering if these rules apply to flight training units? I notice there is no mention of it in CARS Part IV where it talks about Flight Training Units and Flight Tranining and CAR 700.15 specifically says "Air Ope...

Apart from this forum, could you point me to the publications that have stated this? I have not seen anything myself, and if such information is available, I would like to examine it. -Guy I have no real evidence to back this up just what I read in this forum. I was just trying to get some ideas fr...

This is what I was asking about in the other thread. What would you do differently? Where does the current PPL system fail? Is it in the TC program, the instructors or the schools? (I would imagine it's a little of everything) What can inexperienced instructors do to improve the way we train pilots ...

I'm always reading about how bad flight training in Canada is and the quality of the pilot's that we're turning out is way below wher it should be. I'm an instructor and I am fairly inexperienced and I am wondering what you more experienced guys would add to the existing PPL/CPL programs to increase...

"421.65 Period of Validity - Aeroplane and Helicopter The initial Class 3 Flight Instructor Rating shall be issued valid to the first day of the twenty-fifth month following the month in which the most recent instructor flight test was conducted." So yours is good until the 1st day of Feb. 2006 becu...

Wow $800 is really cheap I would have thought that it would be around 1500-1800 for full hull insurance and about half that for just liability.

-M

I was just talking to an inspector at Transport about this last week. The person that I talked to told me that it was required to have at lest four lessons of spin (full and incipient) training including solo practice. I really wish they would make up their minds so when you talk to two different in...

Put it in a container and ship it, it will be easier. Although it would be an interesting flight I found an article once about a guy who flew a 150 from the US to Africa.

http://www.cessna150-152.com/transatlantic.htm

-M

It's your PTR, you will probably pay for it. If you want to keep it you should be able to. Just don't loose it.

More importantly I heard no one was hurt.

-M

I heard it was a Abbotsford Flight Centre 150/152 in the Sumas Practice area but this is rumour, hopefully no one was hurt, I looked for it on the news but didn't find anything.

-M

Loc, "but you just can't put your time flying circuits up against actual industry time." How is instructing not "actual industry time?" What defines industry time? If your flying up north with a 206 on floats flying passengers and cargo in and out of lakes and rivers how does this relate to an airli...

I guess Bay Fuel has grown a little since the last time I was there, I didn't realize that they had all that stuff. I thought it was pretty much just the truck and a small office for the staff.

does Bay Fuel qualify as an FBO?