September 2011 New Students

Rotorworks has 3 new students that started in September: Curtis Bendfeld, Josh Neilson and Mike Walker. They are working with the 2 other full time students Kurt Spelrem and Chris Fehr as well as a couple of part time students, Deon and Lee.   Curtis,...

Working away from the airport

The Instructors and Students spent a day working away from the airport. The facilities are a bit more rustic and the students work around the helicopters in a more operational environment.      Kal Martushev finishing his licence in the...

Wet Riverboat Races

Rotorworks worked with the Whitecourt Riverboat Association again this year when they hosted the World Jetboat Races on July 8th and 9th. It was a soggy year for it because of all the rain in the Whitecourt area, and some of race was cancelled on the last day because...

Raised Pads

Our students work with raised pads after they get comfortable landing and taking off on our regular helipads. This readies them for landing on other pads that are used in the helicopter industry. R22 landed R22 coming into the pad R22 departing R44 landing  ...

Forest Fire Season

This year’s fire season arrived in Whitecourt last week with some brush fires north of town. There were a number of aircraft that came in to work with Alberta Sustainable Resourses to help control and put out these fires. The strong wind with the warmer weather...

Annual Training

Rotorworks has been providing recurrent training for pilots during February and March. This is an annual requirement and all commercial pilots do a review of the Canadian Aviation Regulations and Company Procedures as well flight exercises. The flight...