Mountain Checkride

With the Pacific range of the Coastal Mountains minutes to our North, a Mountain Checkride is a great way to take advantage of the beauty of BC flying.

Besides providing spectacular views and some fun flying, the mountain checkride is an opportunity to learn about mountain waves, valley flying, and how to make safe decisions in a mountain environment. We’ll show you how density altitude affects your aircraft’s performance and how to safely arrive and depart an airport surrounded by rising terrain.

During the two-hour mountain flying ground school you’ll learn how to plan a safe trip into the mountains and learn about mountain weather and weather decisions, mountain navigation planning, survival gear, and mountain operations. After completing your ground training and planning your trip, we will head to the aircraft and apply what you’ve learned to make you a confident and careful mountain flyer.

Our routing takes you over Stave Lake and past Mount Judge Howay, through the Stave and Sloquet river valleys to Tipella at the North end ofthe glacier-blue Harrison Lake. You’ll fly past the glaciers and lakes of Garibaldi Provincial Park and over Whistler and Cheakamus River to Squamish.

Total Tuition fees: $312.00
Application fees (local students): $250 (International students : $1000)
Other fees: $360.00

Total estimated cost: $922.00

MOUNTAIN FLYING SEMINAR

  • 8 hours, ONE DAY, November 28th, 2021 for first seminar

  • $200.00 or $100.00 if you did PRAA CPL G/S

  • Discounted rate for PRAA/ICA CPL Ground-School Students

  • Extensive course emphasizes the best ways to fly in the mountains and the contingencies you must plan for.

  • Be ready to learn how to plan for and fly in many conditions.

  • This course will include tons of theoretical content, backed up by 40 years of experience and many interesting and sometimes dramatic recounts of flying in of the most challenging places in the world.

  • Instructed by the ICA Chief Flying Instructor, Anthony Kokai-Kuun, a 22 year plus Airline Captain with more than 20,000 hours and over 5000 hours flying in the mountains throughout western North America in small aircraft like the C-172, Seneca, DA-42, Navajo, King Air and Jetstream 31.

  • This course is recommended for all mountain flying and it is a pre-requisite for Island Coastal Aviation pilots who wish to fly outside of the lower mainland.

ADVANCED AIRMANSHIP SEMINAR

  • 20 hours, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

  • $550.00 or $350.00 if you did PRAA CPL G/S

  • Discounted rate for PRAA/ICA CPL Ground-School Students

  • Extensive course is designed to help prepare you for real world commercial flying.

  • This course concentrates on giving you the tools to confidently perform the duties of first officer or captain in air taxi, commuter and airline operations. Anthony uses his 40 years of experience in the roles of First Officer, Captain, Chief Pilot, Operations Manager and Airline Owner, to give you the most rounded insight into commercial operations possible.

  • Anthony worked in roles varying from Flight Instructor to Chief Pilot on the DA-42, Seneca, Navajo, King Air, Jetstream 31, F-27, B-737, A-320, L-1011 and A-330.

  • This course is recommended for all who wish to learn more about the wonderful world 
    of commercial flying and especially for those that wish to pursue a career in aviation.