Vertical ref / long line

EACH DAY, AN ELITE GROUP OF MEN AND WOMEN crisscross the skies in helicopters with tons of cargo dangling far beneath their helicopters on long cables. Some are taking massive buckets of water to a fire, while others are carrying a clutch of logs to the mill. They fly in almost everything that a hook can be attached to. The specialty is long-line flying.

Some estimates put the number of long-line pilots at 1 percent of the roughly 50,000 licensed helicopter pilots in the United States. But with salaries ranging from $70,000 to $200,000 a year, there has to be something special about what they’re doing.

We specialize in providing tailored and specific long line vertical reference courses on both the Jet Ranger 206 and also the Robinson R44.