VERTEX Helicopters has placed itself in front of the industry by offering the FIRST Professional Helicopter Hog Hunting Safety Course in the nation that is specific to hunters who would be hiring a helicopter service to hunt Feral Hogs or Coyotes.

Our course is built around our primary operating priciples:

SAFETY. RELIABILITY. EXPERIENCE.

Shooting Feral Hogs from a helicopter is a risky business. We work to mitigate those risks through Safety Programs and Hunter Education. Others companies have made recent attempts to duplicate our courseware in an effort to sell our program under their name. You can be assured that as our program continues to evolve, we will recognize different concerns that arise during the safety course and during our depredation hunts, we will continue to bring our clients the latest techniques, safety improvements, and practical measures in order to offer the safest hunt program available.

Our company has perfomed Aerial Hog Depredation Services (Helicopter Hog Hunting) safely and effectively because we train our flight crews to work in that specific environment.

All of our pilots are required undergo an intensive Low-Level Operations Course designed to teach military low-level flight techniques and emergency procedures based upon flight modes below 50 feet and above 50 knots airspeed. No other company in the United States performs this Low-Level Operations Course other than the US Military.

In addition, all of our company-employed helicopter gunners must also undergo an intensive Aerial Hunter Safety Course before they are allowed to perform gunner operations from any of our helicopters.

Our Aerial Hunter Safety Course was developed from years of Army Aviation, Law Enforcement and Military Special Operations tactics, techniques, procedures and hands-on experience utilizing the latest state-of-the-art weapons and optics combined with precision shooting techniques which result in a shooter who not only knows and understand the principles of firing a weapon from a moving aircraft, but the communication and safety requirements that accompany the operations.

In short, we have developed and currently employ some of the most advanced, professional and SAFE tacticians in the industry in order to perform our Aerial Hog Depredation Services.

Many hunters have approached our company and scoffed at the idea that they would have to pay for someone to teach them something they can "just figure out themselves by doing it". We don't recommend that perspective. YouTube is full of videos showing people who were trying to "figure it out" by pointing loaded weapons at the rotor system with fingers on the trigger, etc. We train our attendees to recognize those mistakes and to prevent them.

Our course has proven itself not only in our eyes, but in the eyes of our course graduates.

The Fee for the course is $350, and the course is MANDATORY for anyone who intends to shoot or act as a gunner for our Feral Hog Depredation Hunts.

VERTEX Helicopters holds the Aerial Hunting Safety Course every other Saturday at our Flight Training Facility at Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas. Cost for the course is of $350 per attendee.

The course is an all-day program with 4 hours of classroom instruction in the morning and hands-on training in the helicopter on an active range during the afternoon. Each class is limited to 12 people to keep the instruction more concentrated, resulting in more interaction and additional time for hands-on training. Depending on the location, we will travel with one of the aircraft to perform the classes for larger groups at remote locations when scheduling allows.

Classes begin at 8am SHARP, so we ask all course attendees to arrive at least 30 minutes early to complete any required paperwork.

CLASS SCHEDULE:

1. Feral Hog Background
2. Helicopter Hunting Safety
3. Helicopter Systems Description
4. Helicopter Crew Coordination
5. Weapons Selection
6. Weapon Emergency Procedures
7. Aerial Ballistics
8. Hunt Planning & Obstacle Recon
9. LUNCH
10. Hands-on Helicopter Safety Briefing
11. Hands-On Helicopter Entry/Egress/Weapons Procedures
12. LIVE FIRE (Remainder of day spent cycling each attendee through helicopter to fire at stationary targets at live-fire range)
    

VERTEX Helicopters provides coffee, snacks, refreshments and lunch for all of the course attendees, as well as transportation to and from the Live-Fire areas. VERTEX Helicopters also provides the AR-15 (Courtesy of Rock River Arms) and the ammunition for the course as part of the course fee.

UPCOMING CLASS DATES

• April 21st, 2012
• May 5th, 2012
• May 19th, 2012
• June 2nd, 2012
• June 9th, 2012
• June 23rd. 2012
• July 21st, 2012
• Aug 4th, 2012
  
  Call for custom courses for groups of 6-8 or more.
  

All hunters MUST have completed the VERTEX Helicopters Aerial Hunter Safety Course PRIOR to performing duties as a gunner.  All hunters/gunners MUST have a valid Texas hunting license on file with VERTEX Helicopters at least 10 days prior to the hunt date.

Payment of $350 per course attendee must be made upon reservation of the class date.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE AERIAL HUNTING SAFETY COURSE APPLICATION.

You will need to open this form using Adobe Acrobat. Once opened, Fill-In the form, then print it, sign it, and fax it to us at 281-520-4323 or scan it and email it to info@vertexhelicopters.com