Day 1 at flight school

The next day I woke up and we all got ready to see our new flight school.

We met Downstairs at the car park with the course directors, I remember how surprised I was with how relaxed everything was and how hot it was as I was oblivious about how hot it can get in northern Canada.

We drove up to the airport which took about 30 Min's with a quick stop at Tim Horton's which would be Canada's national coffee chain. Cheep and cheerful is how they rolled!

Shortly after a drive up the mountain to the airport noticing immediately the size of the runway as it's connected to a military air base it's needed, being told that this is one of the few runways where the space. Shuttle can land in the world.

The base is was part of NORAD which which if you Google brings you to north American aerospace command . It had a huge underground bunker that when I was there last they were selling to Microsoft for server storage as that was as safe as can be!
 
We then drove up the airport road passing all the big hangers such as bombardier, voyages etc and finally get to the school.
First impressions were its small but had plenty of aircraft.

We all met the instructors and mode importantly the chief flying instructors.
Ron was an ex military pilot of around 40 years, he gave us the usual work hard talk and showed us around.
Next one of the other instructors started to go through things and showed us our schedules. All our first thoughts were crap!
Flying at 4am everyday!
Although I have to say getting up to at 4am to fly was a lot better then the usual things you have to do at 4am. We won't go into that :)
The summer was here, we embraced our 4am flights with hangovers which were common of course never breaking the 12 hour no alcohol rule for pilots!. The first night all of us went out was one of the most memorable nights of my life.