Recent content by jdl902

I'm trying to decipher the deductions on my pay stub; what is PPIP? All Google would tell me is Parental Insurance Plan but what's it cover?  Is it only for Quebec residents?

Interesting look at Israel's attempt to build an indigenous fighter and the aftermath. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Lavi

With only 4 months to go until the above post is 10 years old, it looks pretty prophetic!

What if I've been locked in a tall tower downtown?  Where do I go then, besides AndrewDL?

I'll see if I can breathe some life into an old post since I've still got 11 months of OJT ahead of me... I'm still stumbling around the DWAN and don't have it figured out yet.  As a follow-up to Guy Incognito's post how do I "Look up various schools on the DWAN"? I'm also wondering what's the...

It was solved for a while, the platoon ahead of us only had a few months of waiting and 2 of our guys are going to Portage in January.  I think overall they simply hired too many pilots this year and have swamped the system.  Seems like this should be easily avoided but someone somewhere...

Broken Again! Just finished BMOQ and was given the good news that PFT will be in 12 months :facepalm:

Interesting advice but I'm still looking for some info on what we're actually going to learn in the airplane; a quick bullet list of the top 5 topics/maneuvers would be fantastic!  I figure if I have a general familiarity going in that will help me assimilate things more quickly.  I'm not...

More specifically the flight syllabus.  I have 24 hours a day to study the ground portion but it looks like we spend less than 30 hours total in the cockpit so these are the items I want to focus on!  The bit of info I've found indicates basic circuits (takeoff and landing obviously) and some...

Can anyone share the general syllabus for PFT (meterology, instruments, etc)?  It seems the training system is moving along these days so I'd like to get the jump on some review while I've got some time on my hands. Thank you!

I’ve been trying to figure out the initial progression through the pilot occupation; at least until the end of Phase 3 where things start to diverge.  I’ve pulled bits and pieces together from the recruiters and forums but in some cases information was quite old or conflicting.  What I’ve tried...

Merci Mathew.  I'd love to learn French, I would just prefer that it doesn't delay when I start PFT, I'm not getting any younger.

To close the loop on this, I ended up turning down the initial offer but have gotten a second offer for BMOQ in May.  WHEWWWW, I didn't know I could hold my breath for two months.  No hesitation in accepting this time.

I did the new ASC test and my best advice would be to get plenty of sleep beforehand, it's a real brain burner!  There's not much you can do to prepare for it in advance.  Overall it's a great experience, especially if you get selected.

To resurrect an old thread that's just become very relevant to me; does anyone have any recent experience with how long the wait between BMOQ, PFT and BFT are?  I've also heard DEO pilots have been going straight from St Jean to Portage but the official story still seems to be SLT before PFT. ...