Do Student Pilots Need Their Own Headset?
Renting a headset costs $10 to $15 a flight. Here is when buying your own makes sense in flight training, and what it saves you over your licence.
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Career Change to Pilot – You’ve Decided to Make the Mid-Career Switch. Now What?
So, you’ve done the research, talked to pilots, and finally made the decision that you’re going to make that mid-career switch and pursue a career as a pilot. Now what? For those who are switching their careers, this may be intimidating. Unlike someone starting flight training straight out of high school, someone who starts their…
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Pilot Supplies to Begin Pilot Training
Pilot Supplies to Begin Pilot Training A lot of our new students contact us for assistance because of how overwhelming the pilot training process can be. One of the most common questions stems from which pilot supplies are needed to being training. There are a lot of options out there and it is sometimes hard…
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GFA Symbols and Legend: How to Read a GFA in Canada
Looking for today’s GFA? The live charts are on NAV CANADA’s Collaborative Flight Planning Services site at plan.navcanada.ca. Open the Weather tab, pick your GFA region, and you’ll get the current clouds and weather and icing, turbulence and freezing level charts. This page is the other half: what every line, colour and abbreviation on those…
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ILS Critical Area
Taxiing around an airport can be a very daunting task, especially at night in a small aircraft. When maneuvering around an airport, it is important to be aware of all taxiway markings that exist and have good situational awareness of your surroundings. Failure to adhere to taxi instructions can place an aircraft in an undesired…
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Literacy in Aviation
Literacy in Aviation – Beyond Words and Media This article was featured in Issue 4 of the Aviation Safety Letter published by Transport Canada. Whether we consciously think about it or not, literacy in aviation plays an important role in a pilot’s life. When you first think of literacy, you likely think about reading sentences…
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Our Tips for Commercial Pilot Training in a Flight School
It’s a pretty common question for newly minted private pilots to ask how they will go about their commercial pilot flight training at their local flight training unit. The reality is that most flight schools in Canada that are authorized to conduct commercial pilot training don’t make their students follow any syllabus, which leaves the…
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Aviation Medical Validity Periods
Aviation Medical Validity Periods This is a rather unusual post that is being made in our blog section, but it is fairly important. We are going to be addressing a rather misunderstood concept in aviation surround the aviation medical, in particular the validity period of the medicals. This is an important article to read because…
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Aviation Weather
Aviation Weather Aviation weather can be fairly hard to understand sometimes. The application of theoretical meteorology to the practical world of aviation takes an immense amount of skill. Luckily, our online ground school courses were created with the help of experienced airline Captain and certified meteorologist Doug Morris. However, not all ground schools are lucky…
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Level Flight and Straight Flight
Level Flight and Straight Flight This blog article on level flight and straight flight is being created out of the necessity to clear a few things up for pilots in engaged in pilot training or online ground school. Let’s get started. What is straight and level flight? The first thing we tell students in this…
