page_title: Pilot licensing in Canada
section_title: Glider pilot licence
hierarchical_section_title: Pilot licensing in Canada / Permits and licences / Glider pilot licence
caption_attribution_description: English: A glider pilot is ground briefed on the Schweizer SGS 1-34 sailplane
context_page_description: Pilot licensing in Canada is administered by Transport Canada under the Aeronautics Act and the Canadian Aviation Regulations.
  Other than when flying a hang glider or paraglider, a person may only operate a Canadian-registered aircraft or act as a flight crew member in Canada with a licence or permit issued by Transport Canada.
  At the end of 2008 there were 64,932 Canadian licences and permits held, giving Canada the second largest population of licensed pilots in the world.
  The first Canadian private pilot's licence was issued to James Stanley Scott on January 24, 1920, and the first Canadian transport licence was issued to Douglas G. Joy on April 1, 1939.
context_section_description: The glider pilot licence allows the holder to fly as pilot of a glider, under day VFR.
  The glider pilot licence is endorsed, in the student's flight log, by a flight test examiner or flight instructor for the type of launch method used during training. The licence is only valid for those methods of launch for which the glider pilot has been endorsed.
  Once a glider pilot has completed a minimum of three solo flights using a particular launch method, they may then carry passengers, but only for those launch methods for which they have been endorsed and have completed the three solo flights.
caption: A Canadian glider pilot is ground briefed prior to solo in a Schweizer SGS 1-34 sailplane
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