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Old 21st Jan 2018, 12:57
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clunckdriver
 
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Well JO let me give you a rundown on the disaster created by the Government of Ontario and the twits in Transport Canada along with the almost total lack of interest shown by many in the industry. Before we sold our flight schools and charter outfit we were summoned to Brampton by TC and a bunch of overweight employees of the Ontario Government and given an ultimatum to the effect that the Ministry of education along with the folks running the college's intended to inflict audits on all flight schools in Ontario and charge them for the costs of auditing the flight schools, this in spite of the fact that not one of the employees employed by them {note I did not say "working"} for them had or still has a bloody clue about flight training or aviation in general. When the school owners appealed to the director of flight training in Transport Canada to their horror he {Jim Dow} replied to the affect that he and his department SUPORTED such a move, this in spite of the fact that it was the operators with "of shore" students who were the problem, in spite of protests from those of us in the industry the Government of Ontario along with Transport Canada proceeded to inflict huge fees to complete audits on the industry, {which has totally failed to have any beneficial effects on flight training} in fact the reverse is the case. So the situation is rapidly destroying the flight training industry, Mr. Dow is retired on a very nice pension and the airlines and other operators are unable to recruit enough pilots to keep their companies operating with sufficient trained crews to staff their companies. Way to go Transport and Ontario ministry of Education! The nation which produced the pilot and crew members during two World Wars and the Cold War is now having to recruit "of shore", what a bloody joke!
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