LongLine
Training Course - Testimonials
Company Representatives Endorse the Vertical Reference Training
Academy
 Jim - “I chose to send our new pilots to LA Helicopters
because they had developed a curriculum that focused on bush
and utility work. While EMS, the Gulf, tour and news helicopters
grab the headlines a large part of the helicopter industry quietly
goes about its business. That business is out in the bush and
utility work is where the helicopter is the workhorse. Differing
skill sets are needed mainly precise aircraft control and vertical-reference
external load long-line skills.
Vertical-reference long-line work is not a skill taught by flight
schools but if one was to acquire that skill and be good at it
they would never be without work. Most companies do not have
the time, money or structure to provide basic vertical-reference
flight training. For companies operating large helicopters the
cost to train a person without basic long-line skills can be
huge.
Having someone like LA Helicopters offering this type of training
is cost-effective for us and helps to provide skilled pilots
to the industry as a whole. Certainly anyone who completes this
course would have a major advantage in obtaining a job with companies
whose bread-and-butter is long-line external load work.”
- Jim Coates
Chief Pilot/ Director of Flight Operations, Columbia Helicopters,
Inc.
 John - “We have enrolled around a half dozen of our pilots
with minimal long line experience to LA Helicopters to partake
in their FAA approved long line training course. They have all
come back from LAHs' training program very excited and ready
to fly external loads.
I have seen the difference in their flying abilities from before
they went to LAH to when they got back. Our pilots came back
with a lot more confidence in their abilities and could back
it up with their new learned long line skills. LA Helicopters
is an outstanding flight school with a top notch product and
has done an excellent job educating and training our pilots.
I would not hesitate to recommend LA Helicopters to anyone who
is looking to start a flying career or who would like to improve
on their flying abilities.”
- John Harris
Chief Pilot, Carson Helicopter Services, Inc.
Kerry - “The Los Angles Helicopters Professional Long
Line Course is exactly what its name implies. This course contains
the same methods of instruction and content that have been used
to train Columbia Helicopters, Inc. support ship pilots. The
skills taught here are the same we require at Columbia Helicopters,
Inc. in order to be considered for upgrade as a Command Pilot
in one of our BV107s.
I have personally flown the course at L.A.H. and endorse Los
Angles Helicopters as a valid Heliport and Long Line training
facility.”
- Kerry Allen
Assistant Chief Pilot, Columbia Helicopters, Inc. |
