Mountain Courses

[Bell-powered]

I would check out Marty charbonneau. Can oz heli. Rockies in his backyard.. great instructor

[bluethunder]

+1 for Marty. This guy is awesome, and has the techniques for being a true "teacher". You won't regret using this guy!

[bluethunder]

Sorry, forgot to add Mart's link:

http://www.canozheli.ca/home

 

This guy has more endorsements and credentials than any one I know! He's done all my training and endorsements for the last 10 years.

[OTR]

Phil,

More info @ hfbcl@shaw.ca

[shakey]

Yeah he sounds super ligit over Canadian and Chinook! You also lost me at Oz seeing they never Lie about their exprience! We are screwed as an industry!

[Grasshopper]

Thanks guys - Helimentor, you make some good points - I myself did 4 years all over Scotland before I came to Canada, benefitting from a Chief Pilot who had spent 15 years in Nepal (I learnt more from him in 2 hours than I did with the Army over 25) and got grandfathered in, but I did visit a couple of schools on behalf of my company when we had to send a pilot off for some mountain time and I found that they could teach you good ways of landing in weird places, but they knew nothing about getting from A to B without making the passengers sick, which is where you spend most of your time.

 

And the reason he wants mountain training is the same reason I want to do a float course one day - just for fun, and the Canadians do it best

 

cheers

 

phil

You've got that right, Phil. And let's not fool ourselves that it's all about mountains. It's about finding and dealing with wind, and about power management, and maintaining a loaded disc, things that you need to know in urban canyons, too.

 

I don't think you'll find many to argue that Jan's training in Penticton and KO's out of Abbotsford are as good as it gets. However, we've got some oustanding training at Highland with Ken Birss and Rockie Saliken, also carrid on out of Abbotsford.

[FREDDIE]

send him to Chinook better bang for the buck and I am not an instructor there.

[Phil Croucher]

I believe that's where he is going now - thanks for all the input!

 

phil