Thanks so much guys. That was helpful, I checked out AVCanada and was pleased to find more options for flight schools...but to reply to GoldenFlyer, are you saying that a business degree in aviation is better than a tech degree, I thought that the tech degree would be more applied to the actual act of flying and would pose useful in the air. Fill me in...so, now I have some choices which is great, I think I'll write a letter to AC or WestJet and ask them what they think of my (refined) plan and to pose suggestions for improvements to it...I know e-mailing them would be alot easier, but it would be more formal to actually write a letter to them, what do you think?