Transport committee  I can hardly hear you.

Transport committee  Yes, that could be feasible, as technology improves, for instance, with simulation or with the electric aircraft. They're not really at the stage where they're feasible to use for a flight school. The charge doesn't last long enough. Flight schools are required to have a minimum

Transport committee  If the aircraft is “wet”, that means it has fuel in it. If a student or a renter is going to take one of our aircraft, it comes with fuel. If they go away to another airport, we will reimburse them at our cost. We won't reimburse them if they purchase fuel at a higher price at a

Transport committee  Yes, and that's why a lot of schools go with just wet.

Transport committee  The carbon tax that we have already in Alberta, and it is significant, does increase the costs. We need the infrastructure. We need airlines. Everyone wants to fly. You guys all fly on an airline to get home on the weekends. We have to provide that. The idea that the carbon tax

Transport committee  Some sort of government matching for these costs—

Transport committee  I'm afraid I'm not really qualified to talk about the infrastructure at airports.

Transport committee  Yes. Now if I can think of them.... I'm getting a little older, so it takes me a little longer to—

Transport committee  Yes, that's true. Flight schools have traditionally been the bottom-feeders. Instructors do not usually stay with instructing. It would be great if we could get some of the airline captains to come back. We're currently in talks with WestJet, one of the carriers, to see if we can

Transport committee  Madam Chair, it is with great pleasure that I present to this committee the concerns and challenges facing Canadian flight schools. As the chief pilot of Super T Aviation based in Medicine Hat, Alberta, I have over 13,000 hours in medevac, training, and charter and scheduled flyi