INDUSTRY Experience

Blackcomb Helicopters has the requisite experience, knowledge and fleet diversity to help any company from concept to construction and maintenance. We have been operating twin-engine helicopters since 2006 with over 11,000 hours logged. We're an industry expert in utility and power line support and have developed a highly skilled flight team who works exclusively on flying-the-wire environment projects. Audited and approved by the Aircraft Operations Department at BC Hydro, Blackcomb has been performing work for BC Hydro since 1989 and is the leading provider of helicopter services to BC Hydro in the province. We have extensive experience in the West Coast of Canada providing emergency service support to the adventurers of the Sea to Sky with Medevac & Search and Rescue response, and firefighting. We have also supported big budget film projects with a variety of helicopter needs and have highly experienced film pilots to support your vision.

Our Services Include

Powerline Services

  • Class D Hoist and Fixed Line

  • Touch and go landings

  • Pulling buggies

  • Placing marker balls

  • Pulling sock line

  • Glass changes (live line)

  • Pole setting

  • Timber changes

  • Live line work

  • Line patrol

  • Hanging transformers

  • Picking conductor

  • Cross arm and space changes

  • Crew moves

  • Ferrying equipment (long line)

Emergency Services

  • Medevac

  • Search and Rescue (Class D)

  • Firefighting

Environmental And Wildlife Services 

  • Bear surveys

  • Fish surveys

  • Wildlife management

  • Environmental surveys

  • Air calling inventory work

  • Timber cruising

Film Services

  • Camera Helicopter

  • Picture Helicopter

  • Transport

Mining Services

  • Drill moves

  • Exploration

  • Staking & Sampling

  • Environmental Assessment

  • Rescue (Class D certified)

Specific to training:

All Blackcomb’s utility pilots attend the Wire Strike Avoidance Course. This course was originally facilitated in BC by Blackcomb Helicopters who co-hosted the inaugural course with BC Hydro.

Our hydro utility management team travelled to California to participate in a day review of powerline utility work methods employed by Southern California Edison, which included live demonstrations of Class D insertion methodology

We also have pilots have collectively performed over 53,000 hours of hydro-approved operations since 1989.