AVCANADA

421.07 Validation of Foreign Licences

(1) Issue of Foreign Licence Validation Certificate

(a) A Foreign Licence Validation Certificate shall be issued to an applicant who provides the following:

(i) a foreign licence valid under the laws of a contracting state and valid for the privileges requested; and

(ii) a letter requesting issue of the Foreign Licence Validation Certificate and specifying the purpose for which the foreign licence is to be validated.

(b) The Foreign Licence Validation Certificate shall normally be issued for a period of one year from the date of issue. A shorter period may be granted upon the applicant’s request.

(c) If the medical validity period of the licence issued by a contracting state other than Canada is longer than the ICAO standard, the validation shall be limited to Canadian airspace.

(2) Purposes For Which Foreign Licence Validation Certificates May Be Issued

(a) for the holder to undergo a flight test;

(b) for private recreational flying;

(c) for ferry of an aircraft registered in Canada to or from a foreign country;

(d) for the holder to give type rating training on an aircraft registered in Canada to the registered owner, or to Canadian flight crew employed by the registered owner;

(e) for the holder to receive training in a Canadian registered aircraft;

(f) for operation of aircraft registered in a foreign state under the operating certificate of a Canadian carrier provided that the privileges are limited to the type of aircraft being operated;

(g) for operation of Canadian aircraft on Canadian commercial air services in urgent circumstances; such as fire suppression operations, emergency agricultural and forestry aerial application, airlift in relief of domestic natural disasters, and search and rescue operations;

(h) for commercial air services operated entirely within a foreign country where pilots holding a licence from that country may have their licence validated for operation of Canadian registered aircraft in that country;

(i) for the operation of aircraft registered in Canada on lease to foreign carriers;

(j) for reasons other than those mentioned above where approval may be given if, in the opinion of the Minister, it is in the public interest and not likely to affect aviation safety.

a letter requesting issue of the Foreign Licence Validation Certificate and specifying the purpose for which the foreign licence is to be validated.

(j) for reasons other than those mentioned above where approval may be given if, in the opinion of the Minister, it is in the public interest and not likely to affect aviation safety

"Public interest" - The concept of public interest has no fixed meaning in law and its scope may be broadened or narrowed according to the circumstances.

Tough to argue in court.......

you might be kidding, right ? what do you want to win on a public forum ?
pilots don't have opinion to start with; and second, the only public's opinion that counts is the wallet's.
in any case you loose.
the problem isn't where you think it is, you're focusing on the wrong cause.
with all due respect, good luck again.

When our Air Transat colleagues were being layed-off last fall while our parent company, Group Transat,or one of its fully owned subsidiaries, was contracting flights out to Canjet which was using Foreign pilots to fly its aircraft, we, at Air Transat, felt there was a direct causal relationship between the layoffs and the hiring of the foreign pilots. Our furloughed pilots were real to us, they had names and faces. So we reacted.

Can be wrong, can be right, in any case that problem ain't mine: Im just sayin because 3 threads and no cause identified other than "those freakin foreign pilots flying my airplane are making me cranky" is "somewhat" embarrassing in the end.

(2) Purposes For Which Foreign Licence Validation Certificates May Be Issued

(a) for the holder to undergo a flight test;
(b) for private recreational flying;
(c) for ferry of an aircraft registered in Canada to or from a foreign country;
(d) for the holder to give type rating training on an aircraft registered in Canada to the registered owner, or to Canadian flight crew employed by the registered owner;
(e) for the holder to receive training in a Canadian registered aircraft;
(f) for operation of aircraft registered in a foreign state under the operating certificate of a Canadian carrier provided that the privileges are limited to the type of aircraft being operated;
(g) for operation of Canadian aircraft on Canadian commercial air services in urgent circumstances; such as fire suppression operations, emergency agricultural and forestry aerial application, airlift in relief of domestic natural disasters, and search and rescue operations;
(h) for commercial air services operated entirely within a foreign country where pilots holding a licence from that country may have their licence validated for operation of Canadian registered aircraft in that country;
(i) for the operation of aircraft registered in Canada on lease to foreign carriers;
(j) for reasons other than those mentioned above where approval may be given if, in the opinion of the Minister, it is in the public interest and not likely to affect aviation safety.

"those freakin foreign pilots flying my airplane are making me cranky"

(f) for operation of aircraft registered in a foreign state under the operating certificate of a Canadian carrier provided that the privileges are limited to the type of aircraft being operated;

Doesn't this one apply more to the operation SW and Canjet are doing than "j"? Are the Foreign pilots only flying the aircraft registered in there home country? If they are flying C-GXXX or C-FXXX aircraft, wouldn't that contravene the intent of the reg?

not that this helps much... probably half of their fleet is foreign registered.

Minister of Transport....????.... never heard of him!!!

Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec

Scopiton

Anyone can put together the business rationale for contracting foreign or domestic type rated pilots. Most following these threads know the messy threads that is charter flying in Canada and can connect the dots. And, yes, these monkey outfits are only doing what they are legally allowed to do to make a buck within the confines of the law.

The ethical side of the argument however, seems to have eluded you.

Where there is an abundance of qualified and capable Canadian pilots, such as the case today, the Canadian government happens to be the greater party to this offence for allowing these outfits to hire foreign pilots in the first place and need to step up to their responsibility and stop it NOW!!

Quite simply put, you either back your fellow Canadian pilots, who's income and careers depend on the opportunities these vacancies represent but is being assaulted by this act of omission on the part of two government departments, or you don't.

Which is it?

Gino Under