Transport committee  Yes.

Transport committee  Eighty-five per cent complete their training, and 90% of the failure rate is due to financials.

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.

Transport committee  It would be 35 hours on the ground, assuming that I can convert your licence to a commercial licence.

Transport committee  You have that, so then it's 35 hours on the ground and 30 hours in the airplane.

Transport committee  I'm lucky enough to have seen both sides of the Atlantic, solo and as a captain on the aircraft as well. I'm also lucky enough that I've actually been trained on both sides of the Atlantic. Maybe I'll use an example of what's going on in the U.K., France or Spain. There is a prog

Transport committee  No, there's no equivalent in Canada. The only thing we've done on our side is design a program that goes around this. The program is designed so that experienced pilots are teaching in our program on the simulator side of things. It doesn't replace the experience needed at class

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  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  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