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Once the professionnal pilot licence in hand, many are wondering how to gain experience while using their skill level (200h flight time ...).

In fact, if your desire is to become an airline pilot, you must complete 1500h flight time and the step is high. For this there are several types of aerial work a professionnal pilot could do, which would allow him to gain experience, increase confidence, have references and increase his flying time as captain. Those who have the opportunity to become an airline co-pilot after completing their professional licence, should know that the hours of co-pilot accounts for half to obtain 1500h flight time required, in fact they will need 3000h flying time as a co-pilot and to get the airline pilot licence you must complete 250h flight time as captain including 100h navigation time.

So back to square one, to increase your hours as captain after obtaining the commercial pilot licence, you can do:

• parachute dropping,
• aerial photo,
• monitoring of forest fires,
• road monitoring,
• towing of glider

in short, everything that allows you to become a captain.

CPAQ.AERO enables students to work eventually as a pilot for road monitoring in Montreal and Ottawa, to the extent that space is available, of course.

CPAQ.AERO enables students to work eventually as a pilot for road monitoring in Montreal and Ottawa, to the extent that space is available, of course.

Note that a pilot on traffic patrols makes an average of 600h to 700h flight time per year, which is better than most of air work that are often seasonal. To become a pilot on patrols, it requires 3 hours of flight training, including flight check, take a little ground training and pass several small written exams to satisfy the requirements of the operating certificate of the company.

** In the photos on the left, you will recognize Patricia Demers and Daniel Evans from Rock-Détente network radio stations **

The traffic patrols are carried out throughout the year, according to a fixed schedule with weather minimums (1500 feet and 4 miles of visibility) near the VFR Special, the pilot should take care of his passenger for him to be able to transmit information without being rushed or stressed, which requires the pilot to adjust his flight depending on thermal or turbulence due to the wind, flying speed ranging from 75 to 100 Kts, and also he should be listening to the demands of his passenger and air traffic control towers from St-Hubert and Dorval and take the appropriate decision when the weather changes or because of air traffic.

Here is the scenario of an early morning flight in Montreal :

• 4h30 in the morning, analysis of actual and later weather conditions to determine if the flight can take place,
• 5h00 arrival at the St-Hubert airport, filing the flight plan and preparation of the aircraft,
• 5h30 start engine, to be on the scene on time,
• 6h00 start of the patrol on the south shore of Montreal then towards the north-east (Repentigny), change air traffic control, bypass the Dorval airport, then towards north of Laval, overview of the various bridges and highway junctions of Greater Montreal, fly over the south shore and back to the Dorval area etc ..., here is roughly the route that is done every day whatever the weather as long as the minimums are met,
• 9h00 end of the patrol and return to the St-Hubert airport,
• 9h30 stop engine,
• 10h00 update flight documents.

The afternoon patrol starts at 15:00, the pilot should be on site at 14:30, the scenario is the same and ends at 18h30.

In order not to exhaust the pilot, it is not the same for the morning and afternoon flight, each serving as a replacement for the other if necessary.

As you can see, this is a very formative although from the outside it seems easy and enjoyable.