Sure. Primary flight training follows a path something like this: A pilot will obtain a private pilot's licence. They will do some flying in a private environment, funded at their own cost. They will receive further training to receive a commercial pilot's licence. There are also ratings that one must obtain in order to be able to fly at night, fly multi-engine airplanes and be able to fly and control an airplane what are called instrument meteorological conditions. Those all take, at the bare minimum, a few hundred hours and approximately a couple of years.
At that point you're eligible to be employed in the commercial aviation space. Most entry-level jobs are flying small airplanes in remote parts of Canada, or instructing. As experience is gained, jobs become available at bigger airlines and in more complex machines. This is something that we could discuss at length, although I would like to add that prior to this current COVID situation, there was a lot of growth. Between growth metrics and attrition, the experience on the flight deck was decreasing somewhat, although that particular issue has been, at least in the short term, mitigated by the furloughs and the downturn in the aviation industry.
