Transport committee  I am back, but I don't think that you could hear me.

Transport committee  No. The connection cut out in the middle of your question. However, I understood that you were talking about NAV CANADA, which really interests me.

Transport committee  Not at all. We are neither consulted nor advised. It comes as a fait accompli, and there is nothing we can say. Take the airport at Rivière-du-Loup, as an example I know well. This is a little technical, but the three conventional instrument approaches have just been decertified

Transport committee  I can go first, if you like. It is interesting that you raise that question, because we are in fact in discussions with officials from the Caisse populaire Desjardins de Rivière-du-Loup to see how we can get easier access to financing for students who want to take a commercial p

Transport committee  Current regulations allow no flexibility. The whole system that Transport Canada manages is based on a certain number of hours per type of training. For a private pilot, the minimum is 45 hours of flight time; for commercial pilots, it is 200 hours. Nothing lets us determine whet

Transport committee  We are in the same situation. We do not have foreign students registered in a formal program, though we do not turn those students away. I mentioned the shortage of instructors, which is a problem we have to face. It exists because some schools have specialized in training progra

Transport committee  Basically I fully agree with what I've heard so far. Any additional costs will eventually be passed on to the customer. In the case of a flight school, the customer is the student pilot. But all of that is going to eventually end up at the industry level, and the ultimate custome

Transport committee  Great. Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to testify here today. As the owner of a small flight school and the manager of a municipal airport, I believe I am quite aware of the different challenges facing flight schools in Canada. I do not wa