Best Made Guide Bio: Dax Wilkinson, Aviation I was born in Sudbury, Northern Ontario and have lived in Toronto since my family moved here in 1987. I was 15 at the time of the relocation so I had a proper dose of small town Northern living before being dunked into Toronto. Toronto is now my small town home and I live happily Downtown West - Ossington Dundas. I ride my new Vespa 3 minutes to work and 12 minutes to F-LLO at the Toronto Island Airport if I time the ferry right. My wife’s name is Kirsten Gauthier. My son Finn is 8 and my daughter Margaux is 5. Sudbury was a very entrepreneurial place and from a young age I decided that I wanted to be a business owner and that having a float plane was a priority. Luckily my wife became an entrepreneur as well and eventually came around to the idea of the plane. My apparel and dry goods company is called Red Canoe and Kirsten’s graphic communications and production co. is called the Production Kitchen Inc. Kirsten and I both spent our childhood summers on remote islands where our respective families had established bush camps. These camps remain important touchstones for our families although the commute of 5.5 hours by car (on a good day) can curtail enthusiasm. The 1.5 to 2 hour flight is a joy. I started ground school for my Private Pilot’s License in the winter of 2006 and finished the license at the end of 2007. I’d say the whole experience was about as challenging as a very interesting yet difficult University course. I continued my training to get my Night, Seaplane and VFR Over the top ratings. F-LLO is a Cessna 182P Amphibious plane with Aerocet amphibs and a Continental IO-550, 300 HP engine. She is rated to carry 945 lbs on the amphibs which is my family of 4 and dog Abby with about 65 gallons of gas. That’ll take us for almost 4 hours of flying. I look forward to enticing people to fly and will illustrate through this Guide how safe, rewarding and attainable flying and becoming a pilot is.
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Best Made Guide Bio: Dax Wilkinson, Aviation

I was born in Sudbury, Northern Ontario and have lived in Toronto since my family moved here in 1987. I was 15 at the time of the relocation so I had a proper dose of small town Northern living before being dunked into Toronto. Toronto is now my small town home and I live happily Downtown West - Ossington Dundas. I ride my new Vespa 3 minutes to work and 12 minutes to F-LLO at the Toronto Island Airport if I time the ferry right. My wife’s name is Kirsten Gauthier. My son Finn is 8 and my daughter Margaux is 5.

Sudbury was a very entrepreneurial place and from a young age I decided that I wanted to be a business owner and that having a float plane was a priority. Luckily my wife became an entrepreneur as well and eventually came around to the idea of the plane. My apparel and dry goods company is called Red Canoe and Kirsten’s graphic communications and production co. is called the Production Kitchen Inc.

Kirsten and I both spent our childhood summers on remote islands where our respective families had established bush camps. These camps remain important touchstones for our families although the commute of 5.5 hours by car (on a good day) can curtail enthusiasm. The 1.5 to 2 hour flight is a joy.

I started ground school for my Private Pilot’s License in the winter of 2006 and finished the license at the end of 2007. I’d say the whole experience was about as challenging as a very interesting yet difficult University course. I continued my training to get my Night, Seaplane and VFR Over the top ratings. F-LLO is a Cessna 182P Amphibious plane with Aerocet amphibs and a Continental IO-550, 300 HP engine. She is rated to carry 945 lbs on the amphibs which is my family of 4 and dog Abby with about 65 gallons of gas. That’ll take us for almost 4 hours of flying.

I look forward to enticing people to fly and will illustrate through this Guide how safe, rewarding and attainable flying and becoming a pilot is.

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