Justin Chung completes first 6-months on the Saab 340 with Pacific Coastal Airlines

The last 6 months have been an

amazing experience for Justin

Chung—from being a Flight

Instructor teaching spins in Van-

couver’s Glen Valley Practice

Area, to becoming a First Officer

with an Airline, flying the Saab 340

along routes throughout British

Columbia.  Justin is the third

Langley Flying School graduate

to be hired by Pacific Coastal

Airlines in the last two years,

and for Justin, things happen very

fast: call for employment interview

on January 31^st, simulator eval-

uation on February 17^th, offer for

employment on the 18^th, ground

school on company and aircraft

operations between March 3 and

19^th, and simulator training leading

to type rating on March 29^th. 

 

Justin describes his first opera-

tional flight from Vancouver to

Cranbrook as incredible: “All I

can remember is being wide-

eyed, amazed at how everything

was happening really fast—it

was hard to keep your mind

organized on all the things that

had to be done on the ground

during the pre-flight.”  “But once

we lined up on the runway”, says

Justin, “everything just ‘clicked’,

and the SOPs begin to flow.”

 

“At first,” says Justin, “the short

flights were tough, because there

was so much to get done in what

appeared then as a very short

period of time—but now the

short flights are fun, going 250

KTS over the Georgia Strait—there is nothing quite like it.”

 

Justin began flying in 2002 and completed his First Solo Flight on April 24, 2003.  He finished his Private Pilot Licence in

October of 2003 with Peter Waddington, and completed his Commercial Pilot Licence and Group 1 (Multi-engine)

Instrument Rating in September and December of 2004, respectively, under the supervision of David Woollam.  Justin completed his Flight Instructor Rating with David Parry in August of 2006, and received his Senior Instructor appointment in 2007.  Justin was the youngest Flight Instructor to head Langley Flying School’s IFR program.

 

Looking reflectively at his career thus far, Justin says the key has been hard work and perseverance.  “I remember many days studying for 8 hours in the classroom at the back of the school.”   What was really important was the chatting I did with other commercial students who were studying at that time—Sawatzky, Aboulhosn, Gahan, Orlowski, Worth, and Pillay—we motivated each other—the guys that were just ahead of you in the program provided lots of inspiration.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted: July 25, 2008.