Would be awesome if you add to that breakdown how you research job posts, whether it's word of mouth, internet, etc etc. Reason I ask is because I'm about to be 42 in May located the US and I'm looking to transition out of the oil and gas "non pilot role" into a full time pilot role. Comm FW/Rotor ifr on both, cfi fw, rotor cfi check in the coming days after the new year. Currently have 1087hrs piston rotor, 1241hrs fixed wing that has a lot of night and under the hood time. I was lucky to build a bunch of time doing rice, predator control and pipeline observation. Plan is to take ATP checks on both and then go job hunting after my birthday in May. Any suggestions sir?
I've had the opportunity to be flown by a number of CMH Heli pilots - mad respect to each and everyone of them - you're with a great group - have a wonderful & safe season
Excellent work, was so cool to see the 407 come in as when you're inside it looks slow-as, but really shows off the speed and accuracy! I would have 100% pronounced Nug's name as "Ash-linn" but that might be an Irish thing! Love the video as always!!
Great Video! It's impossible NOT to love your sense of humor! Great footage (relatively unsencored I guess), giving us a feeling of how great this day was for all of you! All the best for 2025 and we hope to get awesome videos from you in the New Year! All the best!!
Love your little tomahawk clip after "if you ask me I'm the best on the hill". I have skied with CMH multiple weeks and the pilot skills are beyond amazing (as was the skiing, the guides and the food). And in case no guests ever say it, riding in the chopper is as much fun as the skiing!!!
Oh man, you were very, very lucky with your PR!!! I was doing trucking job in Canada, but my work permit expired before my PR came through, and I had to leave. Keep doing the shit you love!!!
Great video, your sense of humor makes these a lot of fun to watch! Love the sound of Bell's machines. I fly in a 407 every summer (as a passenger) for heli-camping in the Coast Mountains so it's a very nostalgic sound for me. Not sure if you've ever considered White Saddle Air Services for a summer contract, but I suspect they'd be right up your alley!
Awesome video! Awesome area and it seems and awesome operator! Very intresting topics on your residency and caarer. Solid flying in the snow. Good to see the pumping technique. I always shit my pants 😂
alpine has always been one of my favorite organizations... i've known Lance and Todd Cooper, my wife and I got married on Mt. Charles Stewart, etc.. They are a top notch organization and I'm sure you'll maintain the standard... Congrats on joining the team.... 😎👍
A lot of pilots would cut off both their feet to get on with Alpine, good on ya man! Now ya just gotta push an old 212 guy down some stairs and you’re set for life lol.
Dang it's beautiful up there! I worked for alpine back in 2000 as an apprentice engineer and pretty sure I have some entries on AHI's log book. Looking sharp with that black paint job.... Oh, and can confirm that no sandwich is safe around maintenance 👍
Such a sick video man!! Awesome, thank you for making it! It’d be interesting to know more about the immigration-PR and citizenship thing, as I’m getting my CPL in Manitoba and would like to move here
fog and cloud can and has taken a LOT of drivers. watch slamming into the snow, when you seat. If you catch a rock you can bend a skid or crosstube and with it crack across the floor. Usually those gigs are for the senior citizens of the industry, Its like a retirement home for drivers or guys called Kyle.
Loving the content Darcy! Had some changes in my life recently and been thinking of getting my heli license (in vic, Aus). My partner is Canadian and we have been talking about moving back to Canada (we meet in Revelstoke while I was living there and that place stole my heart and I still get home sick when I think about it), how hard was it to convert your license to Canada and how is it going between aus and Canada for work? Any advice for a mid 30’s dude thinking about changing careers and becoming a pilot?
Hey mate, I am also from Vic, Flying helicopters has been a sweet career choice for me, that being said, I started when i was 18 and saw some of the older guys give up opportunities that i was able to take because they had other responsibilities (mortgage, house, kids ect). So starting off with a fresh license ,that's what you're going to have to compete with, people like me a decade ago. It appears you already have the what they call, The Golden Ticket, by having a Mrs with a Canadian passport. Australia is a great place to build hours quick with a fresh license. I did my first 1400 hours in tourism around Australia before I made the move to Canada and started working in utility. Thats when I started to really learn how to fly. In my experience its easier being a 100 hour pilot in Australia than Canada, but i think that is starting to quickly change. I got cross shifted on a drill job by a girl with 200 hours last year. right time right place right attitude, always
Meanwhile, Most Canadian Helicopter operators have all their machines locked away in the hangar and not booked for any flying till spring and you can see them advertising "jobs" when there is no job until spring. Its amazing, the same operators are wanting to hear from the same pool of pilots who were working last year. Their bare minimum hours required is plus 1000 and 100 hours on type. Meanwhile schools in Australia and Canada pump out commercial helicopter pilot licences with only a fraction ever getting a job. One of the problems is the assumption that 1000 hours is some kind of guarantee of "experience" that has little to do with proficiency. Alpine are one of the more common sense operators in Canada. I had my first 206 flight at Alpine and never dreamed then that I'd end up later with a CPL.
Fun video, glad I found your channel! I would really enjoy a breakdown of your jobs over the 12 years.
Your wish is my command 🧞♂️
Second that
Would be awesome if you add to that breakdown how you research job posts, whether it's word of mouth, internet, etc etc. Reason I ask is because I'm about to be 42 in May located the US and I'm looking to transition out of the oil and gas "non pilot role" into a full time pilot role. Comm FW/Rotor ifr on both, cfi fw, rotor cfi check in the coming days after the new year. Currently have 1087hrs piston rotor, 1241hrs fixed wing that has a lot of night and under the hood time. I was lucky to build a bunch of time doing rice, predator control and pipeline observation. Plan is to take ATP checks on both and then go job hunting after my birthday in May. Any suggestions sir?
I've had the opportunity to be flown by a number of CMH Heli pilots - mad respect to each and everyone of them - you're with a great group - have a wonderful & safe season
Awesome video Darc! Keep living the dream! Will hopefully catch up with you over your way in September! 👍🏼
Smooooth Darcy, very smooooth. Watch out for those brightly coloured Canadian snow geese..
Excellent work, was so cool to see the 407 come in as when you're inside it looks slow-as, but really shows off the speed and accuracy!
I would have 100% pronounced Nug's name as "Ash-linn" but that might be an Irish thing!
Love the video as always!!
Nicely done, Darc - both the flying and the editing! 🙂 Love the LongRanger!
So great, keep these coming!
Expat Canadian, now an Aussie too.
Did my first heli-ski trip with CMH, great bunch of peeps.
Awesome vid, enjoy the experience!
Damn, you livin the dream life! Awesome video
Blood good content mate keep bringing it on this platform love it hear in NSW Australia Mate
Now that just brought back some Soards Creek memories ..LOL Greetings to the Crew and have a safe season!
Way to go bud! Looks like you're taken care of for the winter :)
yeah i'm not going hungry this season!
Those edits had me laughing! Awesome video.
Great Video! It's impossible NOT to love your sense of humor! Great footage (relatively unsencored I guess), giving us a feeling of how great this day was for all of you! All the best for 2025 and we hope to get awesome videos from you in the New Year! All the best!!
thanks man, even though i didn't get to go snowboarding, it was a wicked day flying around those hills!
Love your little tomahawk clip after "if you ask me I'm the best on the hill". I have skied with CMH multiple weeks and the pilot skills are beyond amazing (as was the skiing, the guides and the food). And in case no guests ever say it, riding in the chopper is as much fun as the skiing!!!
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing.
thanks for taking the time out of your day to watch
Looks like a great first day. I've got a buddy that flies for Alpine.
Awesome video dude!
Didn't expect you to fly for alpine at the MO
Hope you get to go riding
what were you expecting?
I work for CMH at another lodge so I was just surprised to see you land there. Your videos are great!
@@TheMrMarge hope to see ya around then mate!
11:16. Never seen how a deli was tented before. Very cool!
Amazing video mate this was great watching from Brisbane AUS :)
Oh man, you were very, very lucky with your PR!!! I was doing trucking job in Canada, but my work permit expired before my PR came through, and I had to leave.
Keep doing the shit you love!!!
Great video, your sense of humor makes these a lot of fun to watch! Love the sound of Bell's machines. I fly in a 407 every summer (as a passenger) for heli-camping in the Coast Mountains so it's a very nostalgic sound for me. Not sure if you've ever considered White Saddle Air Services for a summer contract, but I suspect they'd be right up your alley!
Hey thanks buddy, I’m glad you liked it.
Yeah I have friends with WS, great small company with clean machines.
Awesome video! Awesome area and it seems and awesome operator! Very intresting topics on your residency and caarer. Solid flying in the snow. Good to see the pumping technique. I always shit my pants 😂
glad you enjoyed it (shakas)
alpine has always been one of my favorite organizations... i've known Lance and Todd Cooper, my wife and I got married on Mt. Charles Stewart, etc.. They are a top notch organization and I'm sure you'll maintain the standard... Congrats on joining the team.... 😎👍
A lot of pilots would cut off both their feet to get on with Alpine, good on ya man! Now ya just gotta push an old 212 guy down some stairs and you’re set for life lol.
Dang it's beautiful up there! I worked for alpine back in 2000 as an apprentice engineer and pretty sure I have some entries on AHI's log book. Looking sharp with that black paint job.... Oh, and can confirm that no sandwich is safe around maintenance 👍
Can't believe you were piangils biggest egg farmer and now this, is there anything you can't do? Keep up the good work 👍
From the ashes the phoenix rises
omg!!!, new video 😍
when i was a wee boy the man who use to own ALPINE (MR JENSEN) was our neighbor! he hated us but still was a very nice man!
Such a sick video man!! Awesome, thank you for making it! It’d be interesting to know more about the immigration-PR and citizenship thing, as I’m getting my CPL in Manitoba and would like to move here
Duly noted
@bushpiloting sweet!! Thanks!
fog and cloud can and has taken a LOT of drivers. watch slamming into the snow, when you seat. If you catch a rock you can bend a skid or crosstube and with it crack across the floor. Usually those gigs are for the senior citizens of the industry, Its like a retirement home for drivers or guys called Kyle.
You look like tim mcllrath from rise against or maybe he looks like you . Awsome vids helicopters are mans greatest invention in my opinion.
Loving the content Darcy!
Had some changes in my life recently and been thinking of getting my heli license (in vic, Aus). My partner is Canadian and we have been talking about moving back to Canada (we meet in Revelstoke while I was living there and that place stole my heart and I still get home sick when I think about it), how hard was it to convert your license to Canada and how is it going between aus and Canada for work? Any advice for a mid 30’s dude thinking about changing careers and becoming a pilot?
Hey mate, I am also from Vic,
Flying helicopters has been a sweet career choice for me, that being said, I started when i was 18 and saw some of the older guys give up opportunities that i was able to take because they had other responsibilities (mortgage, house, kids ect).
So starting off with a fresh license ,that's what you're going to have to compete with, people like me a decade ago.
It appears you already have the what they call, The Golden Ticket, by having a Mrs with a Canadian passport.
Australia is a great place to build hours quick with a fresh license. I did my first 1400 hours in tourism around Australia before I made the move to Canada and started working in utility. Thats when I started to really learn how to fly.
In my experience its easier being a 100 hour pilot in Australia than Canada, but i think that is starting to quickly change. I got cross shifted on a drill job by a girl with 200 hours last year.
right time right place right attitude, always
Meanwhile, Most Canadian Helicopter operators have all their machines locked away in the hangar and not booked for any flying till spring and you can see them advertising "jobs"
when there is no job until spring.
Its amazing, the same operators are wanting to hear from the same pool of pilots who were working last year.
Their bare minimum hours required is plus 1000 and 100 hours on type.
Meanwhile schools in Australia and Canada pump out commercial helicopter pilot licences
with only a fraction ever getting a job.
One of the problems is the assumption that 1000 hours is some kind of guarantee of "experience" that has little to do with proficiency.
Alpine are one of the more common sense operators in Canada.
I had my first 206 flight at Alpine and never dreamed then that I'd end up later
with a CPL.
100 points for the baguette
Thanx for appreciating the baguette
Jake minor = Solid dude 👌🏾
looks like mica
Just around the corner