What Flight School Did You Get Your Licence At?

[VikingBill]

Viking Helicopters / Helair Kenora Ont. 1974. Jerry Osachuk and Bruce Denison (RIP) Bell 47G2 100 hrs + 50 hour "employment" for $12,000.

[volition]

Gateway Helicopters at Canadore College... graduated in March 2007. I did 50 hours on the 300 and 50 hours on the JetRanger.

 

Instructors: Lavern Ross CFI, Andy Brunet, and Marianne Cyr.

 

Good times but we had 13 students. Way too many.

 

Marianne Cyr was my instructor too!

[Amphibious]

Tech helicopter in Prince George, BC for my CDN CPL(H)

Bristow Academy, Florida for my FAA CPL(H) & IFR

[worldywings]

I am just wondering what school all of you became pilots at and who was your flight instructor.

 

I went to Millenia Helicopters In Grande Prairie, Alberta

And Rick Erdmann was my instructor

 

 

National Helicopters - Bolton/Kleinburg.

 

80/20 R-22/B206

 

CFI Andrew Dunt

 

Currently employed by and fly for same.

 

Great Place!

[hunttter]

Chinook helicopters in 99 with Chad Davis and Cathy Press, and John Turner

[sling]

KO is instructing part time with Chinook....I did mine with Transwest Helicopter School (1977) with Neil Hart, an all around great guy....unfortunately he passed on from lung cancer around 97

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seems like i'm the only one here from quebec...

but any way, a did my training at canadian, and just have good thaughts .

great trainer whith lots of experiences. that will pull you a rank over many...

 

i'm still a newbie here but i have a quetion for you H56, are you really flying the crane?

how thid you get in there (really curious).

for me i'ts the ultimate job. as a low timer, what would be the right path for me to get in there to one day???

cheers

[412driver]

QUOTE(gli77 @ Apr 9 2006, 03:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

basically once your engine fails...you have about 3 seconds to put the machine into auto rotation before the inertia runs out. Your aircrafts rotor then loses its flight and lift characteristics and becomes practically unrecoverable.

I couldnt say if this is true or not but thats what ive heard.

 

Cheers

 

TM

 

 

actually, I believe the number is closer to 1.25 seconds to get the collective down!!!

[Helilog56]

 

seems like i'm the only one here from quebec...

but any way, a did my training at canadian, and just have good thaughts .

great trainer whith lots of experiences. that will pull you a rank over many...

 

i'm still a newbie here but i have a quetion for you H56, are you really flying the crane?

how thid you get in there (really curious).

for me i'ts the ultimate job. as a low timer, what would be the right path for me to get in there to one day???

cheers

 

Experience, experience, and more experience. Some (working here) would debate, if its the ultimate job.....but again, its what you make of it

 

Seriously though, you will defenitely need twin experience along with lots of vertical reference time.....the lowest time pilot we hired on this side of the border had/has over 7,600 hrs with 5,000 of that logging on mediums prior......he was/is an exceptional lower time pilot. Most of the guys here are in the 15,000 to 20,000 hr range.

Cheers, H56

[Guest jacdor]

You are not the only one from Quebec

 

Olympic Helicopters 1977,

Cartierville Airpot.

David Forgie was my instructor.

Curious to know what happenned to him. I would like to say Thanks to him.

 

[sling]

You are not the only one from Quebec

 

Olympic Helicopters 1977,

Cartierville Airpot.

David Forgie was my instructor.

Curious to know what happenned to him. I would like to say Thanks to him.

olympic as disapear from mtl since a long while ago under the belt of canadian i guess...

dont'know the guy, but i'ts a small world i guess