Good evening all,

I'm being told by Transport Canada that due to the following interpretation I must do 65 hours of training in Canada before I can be given a CPL here. Has anyone else converted their foreign CPL and had to do 65 hours in country?

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Further to your question below - CAR 425.21 identifies who can conduct all types of training and 400.01 says that the reference to any type of licence or rating (including instructor) means Canadian.

CAR 425.21(3) states “… A person who conducts flight training toward the issuance of a commercial pilot licence shall…(a) have a flight instructor rating for the category of aircraft used for the training;

400.01(2) - (2) Any reference in this Part to a permit, licence, rating or foreign licence validation certificate is a reference to a valid Canadian permit, licence, rating or foreign licence validation certificate
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Standard 421.30
(4) Experience
(a) An applicant for a commercial pilot licence — aeroplane shall
(amended 2006/12/14)
(i) have completed, subject to paragraph (b), a minimum of 200 hours flight time in aeroplanes, of which a minimum of 100 hours shall be pilot-in-command time including 20 hours cross-country pilot-in-command flight time, and
(amended 2006/12/14)
(ii) following the issuance of a private pilot licence — aeroplane by Canada or another contracting state, have completed 65 hours of commercial pilot flight training in aeroplanes consisting of a minimum of:
(amended 2006/12/14)

Cheers,
Grug

You have to have proof in your log book that you have completed the equivalent training from your issuing country, including the 300nm xcountry. If you do, all you need to do in Canada is the written and a flight test. I believe to do the written, you have to do at least 5 takeoffs and landings in Canada. Keep in mind, it does take numerous hours to get to "canadian" flight test standards as you most likely haven't been flying in a training environment recently.

That is correct. Transport Canada's stated policy is to accept foreign training as long as you can demonstrate that it is in the relevant subjects.

CAR425 applies only to the people who conduct the training: that is, as a holder of a Canadian pilot licence, in order to conduct training towards a CPL you must meet those requirements. As it states in CAR 405.21:

405.21 (1) No person shall conduct flight training or a flight review unless the person is qualified as a flight instructor in accordance with the personnel licensing standards.

The instructor can be fined up to $5,000 for giving CPL training, if not properly qualified. That is the purpose of regulation 405.21 and its accompanying standard. A foreign flight instructor giving instruction in a foreign country is obviously not bound by CAR405 or standard 425.

This page will provide you the guidance you need:
https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/licens ... ots#credit

Further, if you hold an FAA CPL, you don't even need to do a flight test:
https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/refere ... no-401-001