Originally Posted by
acheo
JackRoy,
Canada is the only country dumb enough to accept anyone from anywhere in the world. Not only Canadian citizenship is not required but SunWing, to name a few, has managed to hire European pilots without canadian licenses. Yep, they are operating canadian registered aircrafts in Canadian/US airspace without without a Canadian ATPL....lesson learn, we should not hire anyone if there is no reciprocity abroad.
Old threat, but I would like to agree anyways.
I'm a German citizen with current tcca cpl and iatra. I could continue studying from ppl level in canada hence my EASA ppl was converted into a canadian 1 to 1 without any issues or theoretical knowledge or profiency test. Same story with my drivers license by the way. And it's the absolut disaster the other way : Europe ( Germany is what I can speak for ) doesn't accept or recognizes any of third party licenses. Said story but truthful. I hear jackroy!