Sylvain Bourque

Biography

Sylvain Bourque holds a commercial pilot airplane licence with an IFR and flight instructor rating. He also holds a Level 1 Complex (L1C) Drone Pilot Certificate with a flight reviewer rating. He has 10 years of operational experience as the national chief drone pilot for CBC / Radio-Canada. Since 2018, he has worked as a Civil Aviation Safety Inspector for Transport Canada’s Strategy and Emerging Technologies Branch. As a member of the flight operations team, he supports first responder, firefighting, search and rescue, and RPAS test range organizations, develops publications to support Part IX of the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs) such as the RPA chapter of the Transport Canada Aeronautical Information Manual (TC AIM), and issues Special Flight Operations Certificates (SFOC-RPAS).