Personally, now that I’ve retired from flying airliners and have spent the ensuing six years torturing crews in a 777 simulator, I’ve come to realize-through observation-some innate human traits and thus have evolved and worked my thoughts into my Pre-briefing. The airlines are moving to a different type of training and checking, wherein it is […]
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Originally Published in: Airfacts Journal I picked up the phone before the answering machine cut in. “Hello?” “Hello Scott, this is [the Chief of Standards and Checking at my airline]. I’m calling to advise you that your Initial Ride to become a check pilot, with a Transport Canada Inspector, is scheduled here in Toronto in two
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Applications are now open (until March 1st) for COPA’s Neil J. Armstrong Scholarship which provides funding support for young Canadians wanting to learn to fly. Please share with the members of your COPA Flight. The scholarship consists of three awards: 1 Ab-Initio and 2 advanced flight training awards, available to qualified applicants aged 15-21. More Information
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