COMMERCIAL LICENCE
Our flagship full-time commercial helicopter pilot program — 100 hours of flight training with a direct path into the commercial industry.
High-quality flight training and an advancement plan into the commercial world with our tailored graduate program. We carefully select students for placement, providing the opportunity to transition into employment at an established utility helicopter operation.
TRAINING
Foothills Helicopter Training Academy uses the Robinson R44 as its primary training machine. The R44 is well suited to the Western Canadian environment and mountainous terrain, giving students significant commercial helicopter experience while challenging their abilities in areas such as power management and rapidly changing weather.
INSTRUCTORS
Our instructors all have extensive commercial pilot experience and mix instruction time with commercial operations including forestry, oil and gas, mining, aerial surveying and charter. Our Chief Flight Instructor has several thousand hours instructing initial students through to company training of experienced pilots, in addition to many thousands of hours in the commercial operating environment.
COURSE DETAILS
- COURSE LENGTH
- Varies with weather — we aim for 5 months
- UPCOMING CLASSES
- Contact us for the next intake
- CLASS SCHEDULE
- Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 17:00
- TRAINING
- Robinson R44
- AGE
- 18 years +
- FLYING EXPERIENCE
- None required
- MEDICAL
- Must pass a Category 1 aviation medical exam
REQUIREMENTS
- ›English proficiency test
- ›Category 1 Canadian medical examination
- ›100 hours flight training
- ›65 hours dual
- ›35 hours pilot in command
- ›80 hours of ground school
- ›At least 80% on the written exam
- ›Successful completion of the flight test