Transport committee  Just very quickly, this is a very airline-specific issue. Corporate and business aviation is entirely different. As well, general aviation is outside of the airline sector. They do not typically work on the same seniority list issue. This is specifically for airlines.

Transport committee  I don't know that working with other industries outside aviation.... I don't know that we do that, typically, but I would suggest that within aviation there's such a diversity of types of jobs. We have everything from hospitality, which are flight attendant jobs, to maintenance e

Transport committee  Full flight simulators used by airlines are extremely expensive and out of reach for most flight schools, but there are lower-fidelity devices at around half a million dollars that provide enough fidelity for training purposes. From a research perspective, we talk about cogniti

Transport committee  My Ph.D. is in education, but specifically in structural design for online learning, so it's one of my research specialty areas. Last year I developed a course through the University of Waterloo partnering with ICAO. It's called “fundamentals of the air transport system”, and it'

Transport committee  I think there are a lot of advantages and potential.

Transport committee  “Not in the near future” is the short answer. Remotely piloted aircraft systems have their entire regulatory structure. That's the term the International Civil Aviation Organization uses for drones; they're remotely piloted. Autonomous aircraft are a piece of that. In the case o

Transport committee  There's a wide body of research on aviation mental health. Basically, they'll give surveys to pilots in the general population with questions like “Do I sometimes experience stress?” or “Do I sometimes have anxiety?” Those findings suggest that within the pilot population, there'

Transport committee  I don't have exact numbers, but in general, it's one of those things that's very heavily weighted towards the end of your career. When I have been speaking to parents and their students who have really high averages, they'll legitimately ask me, “Why would I become a pilot when

Transport committee  I think it's important to reinforce that there are more planes and pilots in general aviation in Canada than in the airline sector. General aviation includes remote operations and smaller operators. There's actually a larger group of pilots in that sector than in the airlines. A

Transport committee  The multi-group pilot licence program provides evidence that this can apply to the very earliest stages of training with no previous aviation experience. What it looks like is that we have a heavier use of flight simulation technologies to create very mission-specific training ri

Transport committee  I can only put it in the context of the model that's been proven in other parts of the world with the multi-crew pilot licence: going from no aviation experience to being a first officer in 18 months. I don't think a multi-crew pilot licence would apply here in Canada, but I thin

Transport committee  To reinforce it, Canada has an excellent infrastructure for flight education. Many countries do not. The Asia-Pacific region's growth in aviation is projected to be twice ours in North America over the next 20 years, yet many countries in that region of the world don't have the f

Transport committee  I think what's important to understand from a foundational perspective is that our licensing and training models are based on probably the World War II era's understanding of educational theory and methodology. It's very much an hours-based approach. It's sometimes also called a

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to sincerely thank the committee members for the opportunity to speak to you all today and for your efforts on this important issue. Canada's air transport sector is vital to our economy and way of life, and yet the projected doubling of aircraft