Air Canada's Newest Regional First Officer!

skypilotYTS · October 11, 2022, 5:36pm

We had given FlightExec our notice and flew the CJ4 into CYKZ for the final time last week.

We didn’t waste anytime loading up the 310 and heading back north for home (CYTS).

And upon landing, we hit our 600 HRS goal.

After unloading and a quick Thanksgiving meal we headed East to Montreal.

It was nice to get some color below us as we left the Boreal forest and into the fall color producing trees.

After touching down at CYUL we headed to Air Canada’s HQ for an interview.

The interview went well and was followed up by a test.

The wait didn’t take too long, and before I knew it, I was hired!

We took off out of CYUL with good news in tow!

And after spending the night back in CYTS, headed back down to Toronto to start training!

skypilotYTS · October 11, 2022, 5:40pm

Having spent the last few weeks familiarizing myself with the CRJ procedures, configuring my controls, cockpit, etc…

I am ready to start flight training!

I still have another 24" touch screen on the way that will serve as the true overhead but for now, this works. Also have much more pedestal instruments not yet displayed (thank you simstrumentation).

Today we got to tour the CRJ-900.

And checkout the new office!

Looking forward to starting this adventure!

N347DT · October 11, 2022, 8:32pm

Congrats. Sweet cockpit.

Daflame2654 · October 22, 2022, 11:55pm

OMG your home cockpit is sooo good!!! HOW much money did you spent for this?

skypilotYTS · October 23, 2022, 6:13pm

I bought everything (including PC) in one shot so it was quite expensive ($15,000+ Canadian).

Daflame2654 · October 23, 2022, 11:34pm

wow nice! u must be really rich! do u live in canada?

skypilotYTS · October 24, 2022, 12:28am

I do live in Canada.

Daflame2654 · October 24, 2022, 5:12pm

same i live in Brampton ontario

skypilotYTS · October 24, 2022, 5:22pm

It has been just over a week since I started flying the CRJ9 with VAC (vacanada.org) and so far so good. It has taken quite a bit of practice to land smoothly but they are getting much better.

I have been promoted over to the left seat with;

It’s also taken some work to get the timing right on the flight plans and then do the walk around, pre flight, originating, startup etc… as well as time it with PACX and the VA ACARS system but I’ve got it all smoothed out now and it runs well.

As has been the case with every plane thus far, I always seem to do a night flight for the inaugural run.

CYYZ - KDCA;

KDCA - CYOW;

skypilotYTS · October 24, 2022, 5:30pm

CYOW - CYHZ;

CYWG - CYOW;

KMSP - CYYZ;

CYYZ - KMSY;

KMSY - CYYZ;

skypilotYTS · October 24, 2022, 5:32pm

I’m about 800KM North of you.

Daflame2654 · October 24, 2022, 8:38pm

oh thats far

skypilotYTS · November 10, 2022, 7:18pm

We’ve been progressing through the ranks and have reached Narrow-body Captain, with Wide-body Relief Pilot up next.

By the numbers;

The plan (for now) is to fly the CRJ for 900 hours between the VA’s 4 hubs (YUL / YYZ / YWG / YVR). Then, while at each hub, fly every regional CRJ route at least once.

Within YYZ, there are (currently) 29 CRJ regional flights operated by Jazz.

YYZ ATL
YYZ AUS
YYZ BNA
YYZ BWI
YYZ CLE
YYZ CLT
YYZ CMH
YYZ CVG
YYZ DCA
YYZ DTW
YYZ EWR
YYZ IAD
YYZ IND
YYZ MSP
YYZ MSY
YYZ PHL
YYZ PIT
YYZ RDU
YYZ STL
YYZ YAM
YYZ YFC
YYZ YOW
YYZ YQM
YYZ YQY
YYZ YSJ
YYZ YXU
YYZ YYB
YYZ YYG
YYZ YOW