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CPL privileges
Someone posed me an interesting question earlier today. At least I think it’s interesting. Suppose a pilot has a Commercial Pilot Licence…
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ADHD and becoming a pilot
Let me preface this post by saying that I’m not a doctor nor do I have any medical qualifications. So you shouldn’t assume that what I state here is necessarily correct.
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No person shall operate an aircraft
When you get in your small airplane in Canada to go flying there are a bunch of requirements that it has to meet in order for the flight to be legal. The rules are scattered through the Canadian Aviation Regulations, so I thought it might be useful to gather together as many of them as… Read more »
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How young is too young?
Every so often I get an email or phone call from a happy family member who wants their young one to get a PPL or recreational pilot permit…
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When is a defect not a defect?
Every student pilot learns what to do if they discover a problem with an airplane they’ve flown or are about to fly – they write the defect in the journey log, and then – the airplane is grounded until an Aviation Maintenance Engineer fixes the defect and signs a release to say the aircraft is returned to service. Right? Well…
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Airworthiness and conformity to type design
Yesterday, my attention was drawn to a recent legal judgement detailing how Transport Canada had wrongly interpreted its own regulations and handing a small but significant victory to aircraft owners and operators. If you’re one, or if you’re planning on taking a flight test any time soon you’ll want to read this.
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A flight instructor’s apology
Suppose you wanted to learn the piano. And your piano teacher said that they were going to teach you one note per lesson: today, we’ll learn middle C. Tomorrow, maybe an E♭; the lesson after that will be on an F♯. And at the end of being taught all 88 notes on the keyboard, you’ll be able to play the piano.
Doesn’t that seem a funny way to learn a musical instrument?
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Survival equipment
Today I added some survival equipment to the baggage compartment of FLYO.
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Removing and replacing your ELT – elementary work
Those aircraft owners who are involved (as much as is permitted) in the maintenance of their own aircraft might be interested in a case that came before the Transport Appeal Tribunal of Canada (TATC) in June 2018.