The St. Catharines Flying Club is registered as a Private Career College under the Private Career Colleges Act,2005 and approved as a vocational program under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005 to provide Instructor Rating and Commercial Pilot training.
Successful completion of the Commercial Pilot Program through the St. Catharines Flying Club leads to eligibility for Commercial Pilot License (Aeroplane Category) issued by Transport Canada and the issuance of a Certificate of Qualification—Commercial Pilot. The holder of a Commercial Pilot License may exercise the privileges of Pilot-in-Command of any aircraft engaged in a commercial air services.
Commercial Pilot training is composed of ground school and flight training instruction. The ground school is designed to prepare students for the knowledge requirements for the Commercial Pilot Licence, as the criteria which is established by Transport Canada for the written examination. Flight training instruction is crafted to prepare students for the skill required to obtain a commercial licence for demonstration on the Transport Canada Commercial Pilot flight test.
Last, in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organization, all pilots must demonstrate English language proficiency.
PREREQUISITES
The minimum age for a Commercial Pilot License is eighteen years of age. Before commencing training in the Commercial Pilot Program, you will require a valid Private Pilot Licence—Aeroplane Category, and a valid Category 1 Medical Certificate which you may choose to receive from the St. Catharines Flying Club or you may have obtained the Private Pilot Licence from any other source prior to enrolling in the Commercial Flight Training program at the St. Catharines Flying Club. In accordance with the requirements established by the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005, to provide Instructor Rating and Commercial Pilot training, entrance into this program requires the completion of Grade 12 (or equivalent) or candidates must qualify as a mature student (age 19 and not having attended school full-time for 52 weeks).
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL PILOT LICENCE
See Transport Canada for the full list of minimum requirements in order to obtain your Commercial Pilot Licence. Below is an overview:
- 200 hours flight-time experience, including 100 as Pilot-in-Command, 20 hours cross-country Pilot-in-Command.
- 65 hours flight training in the aircraft category (ie: aeroplane or helicopter), including no less than 35 hours dual with a flight instructor, plus 30 hours solo.
- Of the 35 hours of dual flight, 5 hours must be night (including 2-hour night cross-country), and 20 hours must be instrument time (flight by reference only to flight instruments); a maximum of 10 hours instrument simulator time may be credited toward the 20 hours instrument time required.
- Of the 30 hours solo flight time emphasizing improvement in flying skills, there must be a cross-country flight to a point not less than 300 nautical miles from the point of departure, with 3 full-stop landings. The 30 solo hours must also include 5 hours by night and completion of 10 circuits.
SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND HARRASSMENT POLICY
St. Catharines Flying Club (SCFC) is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for students, staff, club members and visitors alike. As such, any behavior which jeopardizes or threatens such an environment will not be tolerated and this includes any form of sexual violence and harassment.
For the purposes of this policy, sexual violence means any sexual act or act targeting a person’s sexuality, gender identity or gender expression, whether the act is physical or psychological in nature, that is committed, threatened or attempted against a person without the person’s consent, and includes sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent exposure, voyeurism and sexual exploitation.
Victims of sexual violence in any form are not required to file a report or a complaint in order to avail themselves of support services, although assistance with preparing and filing such reports will be provided if and when requested. Local resources are listed below:
Niagara Region Sexual Assault Centre, CARSA Inc.
Landmark Building, 43 Church Street, Suite 503
St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 7E1
Office Telephone 905 682-7258
Crisis Telephone 905 682-4584
Website www.sexualassaultniagara.org
Niagara Regional Police
Sexual Assault Unit
Telephone: 905 688-4111
Niagara Health Sexual Assault Domestic Violence Treatment Programme
St. Catharines Hospital Emergency Department
1200 Fourth Avenue
St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 0A9
Telephone 905 378-4647 ext 45300
Brock Student Sexual Violence Support Centre
31 Ontario Street
St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 5J3
Telephone 905 397-7671
Text 24 hrs 289 990-7233
Website www.asaferbrock.org
Assaulted Women’s Helpline
Telephone 866 863-0511
Dial #SAFE (#7233) on a Bell, Rogers, Fido or Telus mobile phone
TTY for deaf or hearing-impaired 866 863-7868
Website www.awhl.org
SCFC’s Health and Safety Officer is available to provide support, references to local services and, where practicable, accommodation or transportation for victims of sexual violence.
Any persons who are affected by any incidence of sexual violence are entitled to avail themselves of the support services listed above.
Any persons who are affected by any incidence of sexual violence are may, at their sole discretion, file a report or make a complaint about such incident. The report/complaint may be made directly to the SCFC’s Health and Safety Officer, or through any of the above-listed support groups, including the Niagara Regional Police.
SCFC staff will co-operate fully in any resulting investigation and, if reported directly, will initiate its own internal investigation. The privacy and security of the parties involved will be protected as fully as possible within the confines of the investigation. Such investigation should include interviews with the complainant, the accused and all witnesses to the alleged violence. Each and every individual involved in any way in the investigation shall be entitled to have a person present with him or her at every stage of the process.
All information disclosed during the course of the investigation shall be maintained confidential within the confines of the various parties involved, including but not limited to, the Health and Safety Officer, the complainant, the accused, the witnesses and the parties in attendance at the request of the aforementioned individuals. Disclosure to any other outside parties will be made only with the written consent of the complainant, the accused and the SCFC representative.
Once a decision on the matter is rendered, the decision may be appealed by any of the complainant, the accused or SCFC through any one of the bodies listed above and the decision may be subject to review.
If students, in good faith, report an incident of, or make a complaint about sexual violence, they will not be subject to discipline or sanctions for violations of the private career college’s policies relating to drug or alcohol use at the time the alleged sexual violence occurred.
Students who disclose their experience of sexual violence through reporting an incident of, making a complaint about, or accessing supports and services for sexual violence, will not be asked irrelevant questions during the investigation process by the private career college’s staff or investigators, including irrelevant questions relating to the student’s sexual expression or past sexual history.