Transport committee  Accurate, in the sense of opening up for all of the different genders and different segments, or—?

Transport committee  I think in terms of recommendations, one of the things I had noted down was definitely a national strategy in terms of airport infrastructure, and looking at the general aviation community aspect of it. I can't just make a blanket statement about them all, but airports that are r

Transport committee  It's a good question. There are two parts. For the commercial student, someone who's endeavouring to become a professional pilot, those success rates and completion rates are a lot higher than for the general aviation public, who are just coming in to do a private pilot licence

Transport committee  We're currently not offering flight training for international students, but I do know that in industry, one of the trends right now is that international students are generally paying more overall than what some of the Canadian pilots are paying, but it's having an adverse effec

Transport committee  I can start. I think when you add cost to the industry, the customer will ultimately have to pay for it, which will be the prospective pilots and the students. What they're going to do is look at their options and say, “Okay, am I going to spend $100,000 to do a pilot's licence

Transport committee  Thank you, and I agree with what Mike and Martin have said as well. My name is Michael Rocha. I'm an airline transport-rated pilot and a class 2 flight instructor. I have a multi IFR rating. I'm type-rated on many different aircrafts: Q400s and Embraer jets. I have flight instru