Royal Flying Corps Canada

Royal Flying Corps Canada In 1914, taking off and landing a plane successfully was a great achievement. During the war around 22,000 Canadians served in the British flying services as pilots and over 1,600 died. At the beginning of the war there was only a few hundred aircrafts and airships and training was only available in Britain. Once more people were interested in becoming pilots many training schools started to be created in Canada. These training schools were part of an organization created by the British called the Royal Flying Corps Canada. The training of a pilot at these schools was very expensive, costing around $400 for 400 minutes of flight instruction (around $6,000 in today’s money). Even though the price was so expensive, it didn’t stop people from wanting to join the war and support their country. From all the people joining, Canada was able to finally get it’s own air force during the last month of the war. Pilots
The jobs of a pilot were to spot submarines, spot artillery, destroy air force bases, observe enemy troop movements and get photographs that would later be used to create maps. In the beginning of the war aircrafts were unarmed and only used to spot the enemy. But later in the war, the aircraft’s had machine guns attached to them and pilots would end up getting in fights with the enemy planes. The life expectancy of a pilot was a several weeks and ⅓ pilots would die. Having the job as a pilot was very