If I had to live in a Canadian city, I would prefer to live and work in a European city. It's better organized IMO. If you prefer to live outside of cities, and take advantage of what Canada has to offer (space to do stuff, go prairies), then there's not much appeal to working in Europe I have spen...

Are you kidding. Europe is more doomed than Canada.

MuskokaAircraft1006 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2026 5:36 am A general observation from a busy "corporate" Airport in Muskoka. Corporate Aviation is doing fine.

YQA is far from a "busy" corporate airport. But I would agree that corporate will do just fine.

I’m away about 5–10 days a month on average and I get 3 weeks of vacation per year. Most aircraft owners want their pilots to align 2 weeks of vacation with the aircraft’s annual maintenance, which makes it extremely difficult to take that 3rd week of vacation at another time. It sounds like you ha...

1- Large cabin, ultra long range business jet 2- Two pilots 3- Private owner 4-I do about 150 hours of flight time a year. Once the aircraft is back at base after each trip, I’m responsible for restocking it. I usually go back again a couple of days before the next trip to make sure everything is a...

We have to get away from this as an industry. Accepting short (ish) runways in thunderstorms and wet conditions with tailwinds. It keeps happening. I’ve been in this exact position from South America to Miami, heavy ish 767, although we didn’t have a tailwind. Told them we couldn’t accept due to op...

For the corporate guys. 1. What kind of machine are you on? 2. How many pilots on the machine? 3. Owner, charter, or both? 4. If you took a snapshot of the year, how many days are you working/away per month on average including the lighter months w/ vacation? Please include days with misc duties lik...

I have not looked into this in detail, but CKK3 shows in the CFS to literally be on the 49th parallel. CFS shows customs numbers for the US and Canada which seems to solve your problem exactly. Almost like it was designed for this purpose. It is grass though. Fort Francis isnt too far. 7km walk? Abo...

Just did another series of trips and figured i would post a follow up.

4 IFR flight plans filed including 2 cross borders, no issues.

1 VFR filed, activated and closed (in the US) all through the app with no issues.

All from a Samsung galaxy S23.

So far so good lately.

There's Bob again offering incredible wisdom and knowledge as usual. Cant answer direct questions but is always able to throw mud around. Garmin Pilot gives IFR routes basically the same was as FF. I think it accesses the same pool of data. On the flight planning form, once you have an origin and de...

Hi all, with the recent mass foreflight layoffs, the accompanied price hike and the ipad only mindset, I'm contemplating switching over from the foreflight system to garmin pilot on android. I can find lots of older reviews, 5+ years old where the consensus was 'it works, but isn't great'. Does any...

Another one with issues.... C-IINZ, a privately operated Zenair Zodiac 601 XL advanced ultralight, was conducting a flight at Collingwood Aerodrome (CNY3), ON. While in the circuit, the canopy reportedly opened in flight, and an engine malfunction occurred while the aircraft was downwind at circuit...

Hardest thing is to scramble and figure out the "switch to enroute frequency". Need to do homework for your route. IFR is so much more elegant. I'm in the same boat as you, I'd take IFR any day. Slightly funny when students/instructors/PPL are so scared of IFR when in fact it makes your life tons e...

Simplistic. There are many reasons Air Canada lags in those comparisons. Lack of meaningful support during covid. Poor planning and excessive operational layoffs in covid that still hasn't seen recovery. They haven't rebuilt, they've ceded market share to domestic, US, and international competitors...

All that you mentioned is normal flight following service. Cruising altitudes are +500 Controlled VFR in class B is above 12500 or the MEA whichever is higher. And only if there is Class E below. You must have a clearance here so think of it like IFR just stay out of wx. ATC does separation. Its onl...

Lots of legal things are accepted in certain jobs but not others. Thats normal. Thats the way it should be. I can indeed come up with a lot of restrictions on certain activities during ones working hours, or even just before or after. I don't know of any other restrictions in other jobs that prohib...

Some restrictions are fair. But there's a significant difference between everything you've listed before, which has restrictions for less than 24 hours, and then the cannabis restriction which basically means you'd lose your job if you use it. A 28 day restriction is quite severe. No. It's because ...

If society decides cannabis is legal, then it stands to reason you should be able to take part in societies basic functions without severe restrictions (eg driving, working, ...). Huh? Alcohol is legal and we severely restrict its use. You cant drive and work under the influence. Cigarettes cant be...

If society decides cannabis is legal, then it stands to reason you should be able to take part in societies basic functions without severe restrictions (eg driving, working, ...). Huh? Alcohol is legal and we severely restrict its use. You cant drive and work under the influence. Cigarettes cant be...

Kind of weird to ask this question in this way. I assume that if you want to use a freelance instructor then you have access to an aircraft and an instructor? If that's the case, (which it isn't for most) then I would say it's a good option. Going with a flight school gives you a bit more flexibilit...

The best part about this is that: At $80k: Every extra $1 earned might cost about 28-31 cents in tax. At $350k: Every extra $1 earned might cost about 53-54 cents in tax So most of the large increase didn't even go to the Senior pilot, it went to the government. That's true. As is the argument that...

From TSB.... C-GCEF, a Diamond DA 42 operated by Journey Air Ltd., was conducting a flight test for licensing purposes with a student pilot and an examiner on board. The aircraft remained within the Windsor International Airport (CYQG), ON, area for the duration of the flight. While on approach, ap...

50% YOS is criminal Isn't it 50% better than what they had? Want to wager how many current FO's get upgraded in the next two years at Flair? I'd say it's a pretty outsized benefit given how many people may actually take advantage of it during this contract. Not only that, but if FOs at flair are ge...

Its even simpler than any of the above. If a company is granted an OC in canada, (yes there are a lot, but not as many as there are pilots) that should come with a login and access to an internal verfication on TCs website. All they have to do is login to TC's verification site. Punch in the license...