Most pilots don't need a runway to be grooved to stay on it.

Here we go...

Lots of Canadian pilots I guess.

In what appears to be his second post, he alludes to safety, based on what he's heard. The foreign pilot issue was being debated well before it affected him, before he appeared on AvCanada. He asked for quotes... Gilles Hudicourt Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:51 am Posts: 1737 Location: YUL I've also h...

Gilles, Regardless of the contractual details, the same pilots fly the aircraft. Are they safer because they are operating a wet lease, because you did claim pilots operating with a FLVC were much less safe than Canadian pilots. You can repeat it 1000 times, it does not make it true. Quote me. He t...

Wow. You boys and girls over at Scumwing appear to have one hell of a union leader in Ron Smith. Good luck with that. I give him as much credibility as a poster that resorts to a self satisfying, yet drole, moniker for the company in question. I don't necessarily agree with the use of unreciprocate...

My question. ( Im not a 705 pilot). Is in that vis would it be a cat 2 approach and. I ve never been to halifax international. I'm shocked with all the braintrusts won't put. Gps lpv approaches into the airplane I thought that's what all the reason to charge the paying passengers baggage fees( to i...

Winter 2014/2015 seems cast in stone at 37 aircraft/5 wet lease/120 TFWP. As far as I can tell on the CTA website, Sunwing applied for 4 wet leases for this winter, all from Travel Service. Three were approved by the CTA and approval of the fourth is pending, for some insurance papers if my memory ...

I guess he's done.

It's a simple yes or no to end this thread.

I don't find it ironic at all, I've been witness to some false insinuations. It's a simple question, with a simple answer, yes or no. Regardless of your opinion on the topic, a question has been put forth. One that should be simply answered if no feelings of wrong doing are felt by the individual be...

I've even heard of Canadian pilots landing on a taxiway, or even attempting to land at the wrong airport. But obviously this incident, again, is a foreign pilot issue.

Turns out it can even happen to pilots flying for airlines in the USA... United Airlines‘ (Chicago) flight UA 89 from Newark to Beijing, China returned to Newark Liberty International Airport yesterday according to CNN after encountering severe turbulence 45 minutes into the flight. The severe turbu...

It even happens to WestJet... Turbulence during a WestJet flight to Winnipeg from Calgary caused injuries to four people, officials said Saturday. A spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Airports Authority, Christine Alongi, said the plane landed safely on schedule about 2:30 p.m. CT. Two of the injured were...

I guess science is wrong, it can happen to Canadian pilots as well... An Air Canada Airbus A320-200, registration C-FDCA performing flight AC-792 from Los Angeles,CA (USA) to Toronto,ON (Canada) with 149 people on board, was enroute at FL350 about 60nm east of Denver,CO (USA) at about 22:52Z when th...

This too is obviously a foreign pilot issue. Humans without Canadian genes do not have the ocular capacity to see turbulence...it's science!

I can't find where in the CADOR it lists the nationality of the pilots, but somehow this has been turned into a foreign pilot issue.

I think I have a solution for this problem in Canada...any airline that doesn't run their business like Air Transat and threatens their operation should simply be shut down. If there is no legal basis to shut them down, there should be. Problem solved. Now let's all put our heads together to see how...

I was under the impression that this was about protecting Canadian jobs, not about how foreign pilots were licensed while in Canada. Apparently if Transat uses foreign pilots with Canadian licenses, that makes it ok. As opposed to the competition who uses foreign pilots who have passed a Canadian PP...

Ok, I'm going to take it upon myself to counter whatever Gilles has to say, whether I'm right or wrong, time will tell. Yes, I have a job there, no, whatever they do is not fine by me. You accuse me of being a self centered pilot, I lob that back into your court. You, Gilles, are a self centered pil...

I think you're giving Sunwing too much credit for the state of the airline industry. There are approximately 10,000 pilot jobs in the country to be had. Sunwing has about 150 foreign pilots this winter. By bringing in these pilots, it's allows the 250 Sunwing pilots to be employed year round, as the...

Well, as long as we can all agree that the governments view is the satisfactory final answer in all of this, then at least we have a viewpoint with which to reference this entire debate.

Question answered.

I too find it interesting that instead of answering the question, Mr. Hudicourt chose to go on a rampage about Sunwing, and only Sunwing. And chose to refer to those of us questioning his motives as a bunch of nobodies. To answer your question, Mr. Hudicourt, nobody has asked you to post your schedu...

Capt. Hudicourt,
We don't see eye to eye, but from one pilot to another, enjoy your vacation. It's what this is all about. The time we spend working for our employers is to pay for our time off.
Cheers.