Transport committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. For expediency, I'm going to read my notes. That way will be most efficient.

Transport committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting Ottawa Aviation Services to be part of the committee's study of flight training schools in Canada. Our school of professional pilot training is specifically designed for our students to succeed in this industry. The quality of our programs ha

Transport committee  Okay.

Transport committee  That's correct, yes.

Transport committee  Sure. Obviously, airplanes need to take off from an airport, and they need to come back to an airport. Most of the exercises we perform during in-flight training are actually done in specific areas that are well defined. They're actually on our map charts, and we do perform those

Transport committee  You're preaching to the converted here.

Transport committee  I think it's an issue for us, making sure those students.... For the program today, just to contrast your numbers with our numbers today, you're looking at a program that will actually allow students to go from zero to the right seat of an airliner at Jazz or at Sunwing on the 73

Transport committee  Ms. Domingue, go ahead.

Transport committee  I'm not an economist, and I don't try to be. It's difficult to actually assess economic impacts in general, but from a training, safety and competency point of view, based on what the airlines are asking us, what Transport Canada is allowing us to do and what technology is availa

Transport committee  We're a little bit lucky at OAS. We have three class 1 and two class 2, and we carry 12 class 4 instructors.

Transport committee  Sure. These are all technical terms. Class 1 instructors are the top of the food chain. They are allowed to teach how to become an instructor. Class 2 instructors are basically the same as class 1, but they're not allowed to teach instructors. They have a lot of experience and

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  OAS is a bit special, because we're responding to the need for instructors by hiring carrier instructors. We've promoted the status of instructor to that of a manager. We pay them very well to make sure they stay a long time. At other schools, there isn't the capability to do thi

Transport committee  No. Well, the answer is yes and no. The answer is peanuts. Basically, we can't do anything. Depending on when and how the military pilot comes out of the tour with the military, it's very difficult for us to actually put them into—

Transport committee  We can't use you.