Professional pilot training · Commercial-pilot training
Commercial Helicopter Pilot
Prairie Helicopters · Gimli base, Gimli · Canada
At a glance
- Training category
- Professional pilot training
- Aircraft category
- Helicopter
- Prepares for
- Commercial Pilot Licence - Helicopter
- Jurisdiction
- Canada
- Authority
- Transport Canada
- Training framework
- Not stated
- Training base
- Gimli base
- Delivery
- In person
- Schedule
- Full-time
What it teaches and what completion provides
- Teaches
- Full programme for students with little or no experience: 100 hours of flight time (dual and solo) and 100 hours of ground school including Bell 206 study; full-time attendance.
- Completion provides
- Training toward the commercial helicopter licence.
- Still required
- Not stated by the school. Check the authority's requirements.
- Approval scope
- The source does not say how this course relates to the school's approval.
A course completion certificate is not necessarily a pilot licence or rating. The licensing authority issues licences and ratings after its own requirements are met.
Entry requirements
- Minimum age
- 18 (as published)
- Prerequisites
- Not published
- Prior qualifications
- Not published
- Required experience
- Not published
- Language requirements
- Not published
- Medical
- All students must have the ability to acquire a category 1 medical certificate before being accepted into our program.
Only an official aeromedical assessment can establish medical fitness. This site does not decide eligibility.
Duration and hours
These figures answer different questions and must not be read as one another. Weather, aircraft availability, student progress, examinations and scheduling all affect real completion time.
Regulatory minimum
100 h flight time
Pilot flight time in helicopters under Standard 421.31(4)(a), including a minimum of 35 hours as pilot-in-command and 10 hours cross-country pilot-in-command time.
Advertised package hours
- Flight: 100 h
- Ground: 100 h
- Programme includes 100 h flight (dual/solo) and 100 h ground school.
School-reported typical completion
Not published. No typical completion time is estimated here.
- Calendar duration
- 5 to 6 months
- Intake / booking
- Not published
Published prices
CAD 105,500Fixed advertised packageprice date 17 October 2026
A fixed price for a defined package of hours and services.
Total flight time cost; classroom time cost listed separately at $2,500 (not included in this amount). Page shows '$' with no currency label; CAD assumed (Manitoba company; page mentions Canada Student Loans). Undated page.
- Aircraft:
- Bell 206B Jet Ranger
- Ground instruction:
- Not included
- Simulator time:
- Not stated
- Fuel:
- Not stated
- Taxes:
- Not stated
- Landing fees:
- Not stated
- Examinations:
- Not stated
- Medical examination:
- Not stated
- Equipment:
- Not stated
- Accommodation:
- Not stated
Source: prairiehelicopters.com/flight-training/commercial-helicopter-p
CAD 2,500Ground-school feeprice date 17 October 2026
Fee for theory instruction only.
Page shows '$' with no currency label; CAD assumed (Manitoba company; page mentions Canada Student Loans). Undated page.
- Ground instruction:
- Included
- Simulator time:
- Not stated
- Fuel:
- Not stated
- Taxes:
- Not stated
- Landing fees:
- Not stated
- Examinations:
- Not stated
- Medical examination:
- Not stated
- Equipment:
- Not stated
- Accommodation:
- Not stated
Source: prairiehelicopters.com/flight-training/commercial-helicopter-p
Prices are shown in the original currency on the date given and are not converted. Hourly rates and package prices answer different questions and are not compared here. Check the school for current prices.
- Deposit and cancellation
- Not published
Authority records for this school and base
Stated by the schoolTransport CanadaTransport Canada flight training unitApproval
Scope not established from the source.
A record for the school does not necessarily cover this specific course; the scope is shown where the source states it.