Helicopter Pilot

**Work site environment**:

- Commercial aviation
- Government transport
- Bush pilot operation
- Search and rescue
- Aerial surveys
- Forest firefighting

**Work setting**:

- Various locations

**Tasks**:

- Fly fixed wing aircrafts or helicopters
- Co-ordinate flight activities with ground crews and air-traffic control, inform crew members of flight and test procedures and direct activities of aircraft crew during flights
- Conduct in-flight tests and monitor functioning of aircraft equipment and systems during flights
- Conduct pre-flight inspection of aircraft and check passenger and cargo distribution to ensure that weight and balance specifications are met
- Contact control towers for takeoff clearances, arrival instructions and other information
- Maintain communications with flight dispatchers and weather forecasters and respond to and report in-flight emergencies and malfunctions
- Prepare flight evaluation reports

**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Commercial Pilot Licence - rotors
- Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Licence
- Visual Flight Rating

**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Medical exam

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Valid driver's licence
- Willing to travel
- Travel expenses paid by employer

**Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player

**Financial benefits**:

- Mileage paid

**Long term benefits**:

- Other benefits