Reputation with Canadian pilots?
Hi everybody
I'm a 24yr old from Vancouver and got my PPL earlier this year. I applied to the Cathay Pacific cadet programme, passed the 2 interviews in Hong Kong, and did my flight grading in Adelaide, Australia in May.
However, in Adelaide, I noticed the flight graders were often not pleased with my prior training. The examiners would say things like "I never understand why they do this in Canada..." and would find faults in exercises I've done exactly the same to pass my exam here (ie. practice forced landings). I had passed my Canadian flight exam just weeks before my flight grading so my flying should have been in tip-top shape.
Is there a stigma or reputation with Canadian pilots abroad? My flight graders were all British or Australian, one was trained by US Air Force. I'm confident my flying was decent, and their comments made it sound like it was Canadian training they were having problems with and not something I had done personally, which has led me to these suspicions.
Has anybody experienced the same?