| Our Courses |
 Rotorworks Inc. flight training courses cover a variety of subjects and hands on training required for operating helicopters. Flight training is done with the Robinson R22 and R44 helicopters that are used in the helicopter industry.
Rotorworks ground school and instruction runs every day with our students involved in: pre-flighting the helicopters, getting weather information, pre-flight and post- flight briefings, refuelling the helicopters, assignments, lessons and tests that are part of the daily curriculum.
Rotorworks students will become familiar with landing in prepared and unprepared areas, working in an out of airports with a variety of airspace requirements and using different helicopter configurations. Some of these configurations are: cold weather kits, bearpaws for snow and soft ground landings, helipods, and slinging.
Rotorworks graduates are prepared for their flying adventures when they receive their licences. The full time course is approximately 4 months long and these start every September and February/March or in Spring Break-up. We have flexible start dates and part time training and instruction for those that can not meet the above dates. We will do our best to tailor the course to your schedule when required.
Introductory Flight: Rotorworks offers an Introductory Flight that includes a walk-around of the helicopter, a pre-flight briefing with a flight where the potential studentflies the helicotper with one of our Instructors. Robinson R22 - $300.00 and Robinson R44 - $600.00. |
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| Our Advantage |
 Transport Canada requires that our commercial helicopter pilot students receive a minimum of 80 hours of ground school. Our students will receive 300 - 350 hours of ground school and ground instruction during our course. This gives Rotorworks students the advantage of working through information with an instructor present to assist them as needed.
Rotorworks will be training our students in the basic exercises required by Transport Canada toward a Helicopter Pilot Licence. In addition to this our students will be involved in landing on various pads, hover exit training and sling training with external loads. Long line/vertical reference introduction is also available for those students that would like to see what it is like.
Rotorworks also has operational participation in events that pilots usually come across during their flying careers. Rotorworks has off airport operations working out of a bush camp where students are involved in refuelling the helicopters from barrels with electric and hand pumps, keeping the helicopters warm between flights, keeping the landing pads clean, covering and uncovering the helicopters as required, pre-heating the helicopters in the morning with generators and electric or herman nelson heaters. All this is done from a log cabin that is heated with a wood stove. Some of these operations can be seen in our Photo Gallery. |
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| Our Training Facility |
 Rotorworks flights from the airport and bush operations usually start and end at a wood helipad. Our flight training is done over wooded areas with cut-blocks from logging, oilfield well sites, rivers and swamps as well as the Whitecourt airport. We have a variety of airports in the area that students will be flying to for training and practice with airport procedures.
The training area is surrounded by rolling hills and fits very well into helicopter training. While the students are learning to fly, they are getting to know about the workings of the oilfield as they will see equipment being moved on to and off the well sites and plants in the area. For the students that are interested there can be some classes giving an overview of the oilfield and some detail in the areas that use helicopters. |
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