Transport committee  Yes, regulations are the responsibility of Transport Canada, but companies have some responsibilities, such as instructors, for example. The operators assume a portion of that responsibility.

Transport committee  The problems regarding simulators are the costs and return on capital investment. For large aircraft, the manufacturers will build the simulator at the same time as they produce the aircraft. As soon as the aircraft is delivered, the simulators are available. With regard to small

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  There is a basic training course; however, depending on the type of aircraft and the type of responsibility, a more specialized training course will be provided. With regard to large aircraft, pilots need to have specialized training. It's the same thing for planes. Pilots start

Transport committee  Yes, a professional helicopter pilot obtains a basic licence. Furthermore, an annotation is added for each type of aircraft, or each type of helicopter. The pilot must take training and get the instructor's signature. Then, for night flights, the use of flight instruments and bei

Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Not in the first slide, but in the slide with the target.... We apologize. We should have specified that it's based on—

Transport committee  In all fairness when we talk about large operators, they operate with different clients, so it's a different structure, different class, and different category. With the small operators and pilots coming in, I think the approach that has been taken, let's say, in Canada, for exam

Transport committee  I think it's adequate for--

Transport committee  We may not have explained it correctly, but the slides with the goal and the reduction in accidents were based on 100,000 hours of flying. I have to apologize for that. Maybe we didn't specify that.

Transport committee  No, those were numbers, but then--

Transport committee  Sorry, the data being used—

Transport committee  Yes--

Transport committee  I agree with Mr. Chowdhury. That is the kind of operation. In the Canadian North, we face challenges as a result of the geography and the demand for devices from the mining sector, which has grown considerably over the past few years. I believe that it will also be essential to l

Transport committee  It's more complex. I'm not an expert, but certainly--