Recent content by ChrisG

Most of the advice on this thread is excellent but I'd add a couple of cautions. Entry procedures seem to change all the time.  (I have monitored  five very closely.)  It was certainly true that having a PPL made no difference,  however when pilot entries opened about two years ago  after a...

Son applied ROTP Pilot  2008 and is at Civ Uni now.  No  emphasis  on experience was placed on his application. For  many years possession of a civilian license was not considered however  2009,  around  Oct/Nov  our older son (DEO Pilot applicant)  was  told by his recruiting office that...

According to the rumour mill applicants are being selected by HQ without reference to province  (re numbers) or local recommendation.    No word on whether some of those places are CEOPT or all DEO.  (Not sure why the military would  offer CEOPT when there must be a  easy sufficiency of DEO...

Actually pilots owe their position to him.

jmhfighterpilot When do you expect to do ACS? If your are RMC and do not pass ACS can you leave with no obligation?  (As normal RMC cadet can.)  Do you know what your obligation was  after a year ROTP if you did not pass ACS? Which Civy U were you enrolled for?

Well it is not quite so easy  for us to get down there,  we live 100 Plus kms away and it means taking yet another day off school. Have had an application in process since June and now we can`t get hold of them at all. Last I heard `Your application is in a box somewhere,  we`re moving.` That...

Congratulations.

Precisely

I sometimes wonder where Doctors got their education as they don't seem to understand simple concepts. 'Doc,  I need to be off the meds for my army medical" "OK,  you can discontinue the meds but I'll write you a prescription to carry around." Duh.

formerarmybrat23 One of mine just completing a stint at St Jean including BMQ.  You will get accumulated leave days,  you also get statutory holidays unless you are naughty and draw duty.  CF will pay for one trip home per year.  Mine took it at Christmas.  When he came home at Easter he had to...

And BlaineVJ hasn't even got there yet!

Speaking as the parent of an pilot  trainee and another applicant. . . . You may not get an offer immediately, depends on the number of places available.  You may even get a "Sorry we don't need you"    However I know of people who have had both of those and then months later received an offer...

I wish I could wave the magic wand and order the right aircraft right now.  The questions were asked not as criticism or 'may be we don't need'  (I believe we do, more and better,)  but to try and understand what a good spec. would be and ,  when we do make achoice,  why it might be good or...

Is it just me or is the Canadian Government East Coast oriented.  I know that most of the fisheries problems that involve other nations seem to occur in the East,  however it seems to me that at least 50% of, say,  the drug trafficking threat is on the West coast and that most of the countries...

For the information of the ignorant:  (That's me,) 1.  How important is pressurisation in a FWSAR aircraft?  I understand it might be more comfortable when repositioning over the BC hills but  is that a significant proportion of flight time?  How inconvenient is Oxygen? Is building a...