Prinet, Dominique: - In the 1960s, Dominique Prinet worked as a commercial Bush Pilot in the Canadian Arctic and High Arctic, on floats in the summer and skis in the winter, navigating with an astrocompass since this was long before GPS had been invented.
He spent his retirement years as a sailing instructor and instructor evaluator and has published several books on celestial and coastal navigation..
Much later in life, at 70, he obtained his private helicopter Pilot licence.
Dominique has climbed several 12,000-foot peaks in the Alps and the Rockies has crossed the Atlantic in a sailing boat and Nepal on foot, flown around North, Central, and South America in a private single-engine plane, and crossed Africa in a small jeep.
He moved to Vancouver in 1988 when asked to join Canadian Airlines as their VP Marketing, then went to Tanzania, in East Africa, to turn around the national airline and manage it for five years under a World Bank project.
He worked as VP for Nordair while teaching microeconomics to MBA students at McGill for about 12 years.
Dominique Prinet Flying to ExtremesFollowing classical studies in Paris, he took an electrical engineering degree from UBC and an MBA from McGill, paid for by his intensive Flying in the Arctic.
The stories in this book describe some of the adventures he experienced in Northern Canada.
He holds an airline transport Pilot licence and has more than 5,000 hours of flying.
Prinet, Dominique: - In the 1960s, Dominique Prinet worked as a commercial Bush Pilot in the Canadian Arctic and High Arctic, on floats in the summer and skis in the winter, navigating with an astrocompass since this was long before GPS had been invented
