St.Hubert flying schools

[jpar84]

Hey Guys,

Does anyone have experience flight training at st.hubert airport (quebec)? I understand there are a few schools there, st.hubert flying school, aeroclub de montreal and cargair. Any insight as to which would be the best to get my flight training done quickly while minimizing expense in a c-172 or other spacious single engine aircraft as i dont fit in the 150. Any other opinions or information would be great as well.

thanks
JP

[jpar84]

sorry guys i see there is already a pretty extensive thread dedicated to schools in and around the montreal area.

thanks
JP

[captaingomes]

I just did my 300NM to Montreal the other day, and stopped at YHU, and ended up fueling up at Cargair. Busy busy airport, and the Cargair folks were really nice. I am really shocked at how much traffic there was there, although it was well organized and never felt daunting. Good luck with your search and your training!

[THEICEMAN]

YHU is a very very very busy airports. With 149,910 movements, it is ranked 12th in Canada since they only count full stops .......I was told by YHU controller that the figure is actually more then double since most aircraft do 2-3 touch & goes on average.

BTW, avoid YHU if you can. Your going to waste a lot of money just sitting on the ground waiting for takeoff instead of actually training.

Suggest you visit the following schools & airports before chooisng.....

Mascouche CSk3 (busy little aiport, but you get good training & will do many cross wind landings)
+Cargair
+ALM

Les Cedres CSS3 (quiet little airport, but perfect for training!)
+Laurentide aviation


Good luck!

[lilfssister]

According to this document
http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/report/TP577 ... 577_07.pdf

The 149,910 total movements in 2007 were: 68,052 itinerants and 81,858 locals (touch and goes).

[Louis]

I understand there are a few schools there, st.hubert flying school, aeroclub de montreal and cargair.

Two corrections:

The Aeroclub building is now Air Richelieu.
You forgot CPAQ.AERO (in the Air Quasar building where Aerotaxi and Pro Aviation used to be).

THEICEMAN, how often, and how long have you been stuck waiting at St-Hubert? Or are you spreading apocryphal tales of nightmarish delays? While it's true that delays happen every now and then, I find you make it out to be a common occurrence when I think it's not.

My personal record was thirty minutes, once. That's over a period of nearly two years of very frequent flying. Runway 10 was in use that day and the 06s were not available, even for departures, so I was stuck number 4 to depart with a bunch of airplanes in the circuit. Most of my remaining flights have had .2 or .3 of ground time, which isn't different from what you'll see in Mascouche. The odd .4s were mostly due to some students' speed, thus not really my fault, and something that could just as well happen in CSK3. Also, I haven't heard any complaints about delays from other pilots around me.

So while there are other reasons (ie: landing fees) to favor Mascouche or Cedars over St-Hubert, I believe potential delays, in the current situation, shouldn't be much of a factor.

Goodbye,

Louis

[jarvisjarvis]

You forgot to mention St-Hubert flying school.

Yes, it is a very very busy airport, but ATC is very efficient and they are used to the rush hours. It is very good for training in real busy airport environment and it is not true that it's a waste of money to train at CYHU. I've been training there for a long time and my record waiting on the ground is no more than 15 minutes and that's with only one runway (24R-06L) in use because of tower renovation.