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Job Details

Bush Pilot

Employer

Ridge Rotors

Date Posted

October 22, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Blue Ridge, AB
  • Earnings $4,500.00 monthly + $100.00 commission per piece
  • Work Hours 120 to 200 hours per week
  • Position Seasonal Full Time
  • Vacancies 6  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Nov 21, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Ridge Rotors

Languages

English

Education

Other trades certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Commercial aviation
  • Outdoors
  • Bush pilot operation
  • Noisy
  • Search and rescue
  • Aerial surveys
  • Non-smoking
  • Sightseeing
  • Forest firefighting

Work setting

  • Rural area
  • Staff accommodation available
  • Remote location
  • Various locations

Tasks

  • Fly fixed wing aircrafts or helicopters
  • Follow emergency procedures to compensate for equipment malfunction or failure
  • Monitor operation of engine and aircraft systems during flight
  • Perform post-flight inspections
  • Record equipment malfunctions and corrective actions taken during flight
  • Report required repairs to ground maintenance personnel
  • 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 pre-flight inspection of aircraft and check passenger and cargo distribution to ensure that weight and balance specifications are met
  • Maintain communications with flight dispatchers and weather forecasters and respond to and report in-flight emergencies and malfunctions

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

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

Security and safety

Medical exam

Transportation/travel information

  • Valid driver's licence
  • Willing to travel regularly

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination

Own tools/equipment

Safety equipment/gear

Personal suitability

  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Organized
  • Client focus
  • Flexibility
  • Reliability

Screening questions

  • Are you authorized to work in Canada?
  • Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?

Experience

Experience an asset

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Bonus
  • Commission
  • Gasoline paid

Other benefits

  • Other benefits
  • Transportation provided by employer

Support for mature workers

Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Bush Pilot is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Pilots
OBJECTIVE

Interest in driving - operating fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to provide services such as search-and-rescue operations, aerial surveying and spraying and crop dusting

INNOVATIVE

Interest in analyzing information to test new aircraft to evaluate performance

DIRECTIVE

Interest in speaking with crews to direct their activities during flights as captain or co-pilot and in performing captain's duties as first officer, if required; in training other pilots on new equipment, and in preparing them for examinations to validate and upgrade existing licences

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