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This video will demonstrate how to register for Transport Canada’s Digital Aviation Document Download service. After you register, you can add a digital version of your aviation licence to your mobile device.
Digital aviation credentials are called Digital Personnel Licences or DPLs. DPLs use international standards to ensure interoperability and security and can only be added to standards compliant apps. The only mobile app compliant with DPL standards is GC Wallet.
When you are ready to get started, follow the registration link to the Digital Aviation Document Download service.
1. Prepare your mobile device
Before downloading your DPL, you must prepare your mobile device by installing the GC Wallet app on the device you want to use to carry your DPL. GC Wallet is in beta trial on iOS and Android and can only be downloaded using the links on the service website.
Apple iOS device users
Apple iOS device users will follow a two-step process to install GC Wallet by going to the Digital Aviation Document Download service registration page and clicking on the iOS App store link. This link opens the iOS Testflight-GC Wallet installation page in your default web browser.
- Beta versions of all iOS apps require the use of Apple’s TestFlight app. Complete step 1 by installing the TestFlight app. After TestFlight is installed on your mobile device click ‘Done’, return to the installation web page and scroll down to Step 2 ‘View GC Wallet Beta’.
- Start the GC Wallet installation process by clicking the ‘View in TestFlight’ button at the bottom of the page.
- TestFlight will open and prompt you to choose if you’d like to receive notifications. If you Allow notifications, then TestFlight will notify you when new versions of GC Wallet are available.
- On the TestFlight welcome page, press ‘Continue’.
- You can now use TestFlight to install GC Wallet by pressing the ‘Install’ button. When installation is complete, the GC Wallet app icon will be added to your device home screen.
- Press ‘Open’ to go to GC Wallet.
- TestFlight presents a screen with a brief description of recent changes to the app. Press ‘Next’.
TestFlight informs that screenshots can be shared but there is no need to do this. Press ‘Start Testing’ to open GC Wallet.
Android device users
Android device users can quickly install GC Wallet on their mobile device using the Google Play Store link. This link opens the Google Play Store to the GC Wallet app page.
Click ‘Install’ on the GC Wallet page and tap the GC Wallet app icon on your device to open the app.
2. Learn about service registration
Now that the GC Wallet app is installed on your mobile device, you are ready to register for the Digital Aviation Document Download service.
Registration could take 5-10 minutes so you should use the registration checklist to familiarize yourself with the process before you begin.
- We can say we have installed GC Wallet
- We understand that, if we don’t have one, we will create a myTC account to access the service
- We understand that we will have set up two factor authentication. This will require using our email or an authenticator app to receive security codes each time we sign in
- Finally, we understand we will sign in using a banking partner or GC Key
Let’s sign in.
3. Sign in
To register, begin by signing in using a banking partner or GCKey. The banking partner method is the easiest and allows you to sign in via your bank. Note that if you use this method, none of your banking information is ever shared. Alternatively, you can use GCKey to sign in. If you already have a GCKey you can use it. If you don’t have a GCKey, you can complete the GCKey sign-up process and get one. The GCKey sign-up process is straight-forward and takes about five minutes to complete. You must:
- Accept the GCKey terms and conditions
- Create a unique username
- Create a password
- Create recovery questions, answers, and hints,
- And optionally provide an email for account recovery
4. Two factor authentication
The first time you sign in you must set up two factor authentication on your account so you can receive two factor authentication codes each time you access the service. Two factor authentication codes can be sent to your email or to an authenticator app installed on your device, such as Microsoft Authenticator, Google Authenticator, or Apple Passwords.
Email method
To set up email as your two-factor authentication method, select the email option and submit your email address. Now, check your email for the two-factor authentication code and enter and submit the code to verify your email address. It may take a few minutes for the code to arrive.
Smart phone/tablet method or desktop
If you do not want to use email to receive two factor authentication codes, then you must use an authenticator app. If you already have an authenticator app, then you can use it. If you do not have an authenticator app then you will need to choose one and install it on a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. When you are ready to go with an authenticator app, continue to the ‘Register Device’ page.
- If you are accessing the Register Device page from the device where you installed your authenticator app, then click the “Copy the secret key” button. Now switch to your authenticator app and add an account by copying the secret key to the new account you created. If you’d like you can name your account something memorable, like Transport Canada, so you can identify it more easily next time.
- If you are accessing the Register Device page from a device that does not have the authenticator app then you will need scan the QR code into your authenticator app. To do so, open the authenticator app and invoke the scan function.
Once you add the account, a six-digit code will appear in the authenticator app.
Now you must return to the Register Device page in your web browser, and enter the authenticator code in the Authenticator code input field at the bottom of the page, and press the ‘Continue’ button.
After you have setup either the email method OR the authenticator method you will be presented with recovery codes that allow you to recover access to your two-factor account. You should copy, print or take a photo of the recovery codes and store them in a safe and secure manner so that you can find them if you need them. After you have done so, select the check box at the bottom of the page and press continue.
Two factor authentication setup is now complete. Press ‘Continue’ to proceed to set up your myTC account.
5. myTC account
If you already have a myTC account, then you will skip this step. If you do not have a myTC account, the next step will be to create one. Your myTC account is associated with the email address you provide when you register using this form. After you complete and submit the account registration form an email verification link or code will be sent to the email address you provided. Complete the registration process by following the email verification link or submitting the email verification code you received on the next page you will see.
6. Privacy notice and aviation document retrieval
Now you must review and accept the privacy notice regarding how your personal information is used to issue and verify digital credentials. Once you agree and continue, you will submit your date of birth and aviation file number to access your aviation documents.
Registration for the digital aviation document download service is now complete and you are ready to use the service to download your licences to the GC Wallet app.
Video slide titles:
Digital Aviation Document Download Service registration
International interoperability standards
Prepare your mobile device
Learn about registration
Sign in
Set up two-factor authentication (2FA)
myTC account registration
Privacy notice and document retrieval