Helitack Pilots

Helitack Pilots

Among the many jobs available to professional helicopter pilots, helitack pilots have some of the most rewarding careers. A helitack pilot is the industry term that describes a firefighting helicopter pilot. Becoming a helitack pilot offers professional pilot students the chance to work as a real life hero in the course of a day’s work. When we are talking about emergency services, it is sometimes the case that an unfortunate set of circumstances may create vital career opportunities. In this case, ongoing drought conditions along with other weather factors have led to a literally combustible situation. There are more and more fires each summer, and there needs to be more and more helitack pilots to fight them year in and year out. Upper Limit Aviation (1-855-HELIEDU) is up to the challenge of training tomorrow’s firefighting hero pilots.

Helitack Pilots do Essential Work to Keep People Safe and Fires Under Control

Helitack pilots work an admittedly dangerous job, but their function is essential to gaining control of a fire from early on. The work firefighting pilots do provides necessary support to firefighters on the ground and helps to avoid tragic outcomes before they have a chance to come to fruition. Helitack pilots must use high-precision techniques, taking their own lives and the lives of their passengers into their own hands maneuvering through high intensity situations. Helitack pilots run transport missions, delivering hotshot crews to the fire in addition to using Bambi Buckets and airframe mounted water tanks in order to drop fire retardant foam and water directly on the fire and around its perimeter.

Upper Limit Aviation is proud to be able to offer the kind of high quality training necessary to meet the standards of safety and excellence expected of today’s helitack pilots. We are grateful for the opportunity to deliver our student heroes to a service that will add meaning to their lives while it offers them the chance to save lives and preserve land and property. This rewarding career is within your grasp if you consider enrolling at Upper Limit Aviation to begin your professional helicopter pilot training today by calling 1-855-HELIEDU.