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Old 27th March 2019 | 13:18
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newfieboy
 
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From: St Johns, Newfoundland,Canada
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Before you look at dropping large amounts of $ on a licence, be it fixed or rotary wing, you probably want to make sure you can gain the right to live and work in Canada. Either Permanent Resident status or Citizenship. Not easy to obtain either nor temporary foreign work permits these days.

Apart from that, I’m flying utility helicopter stuff and starting to see quite a demand for experienced operators. The operative word there is experienced ie. longline, drill move, bird towing, Arctic,firefighting and hydro to name a few skills required.
Good luck on your endeavours, its not easy but doable. I moved to Canada 25 years ago from the UK. Don’t regret a thing and have acquired nearly 20;000 hrs of very diverse flying in some very harsh environments.
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