Training and Proficiency

Coptersafety Sponsors Whirly-Girls Helicopter Training Scholarship

The scholarship aims to promote women in the helicopter industry and includes technical ground training and full-flight simulator training.

Meg Godlewski

Monday, September 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM ET

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Scholarship applications are open to Whirly-Girls members through early October. [Credit: Shutterstock]

Key Takeaways:

Whirly-Girls International, a non-profit promoting women in the helicopter industry, offers scholarships to offset the high cost of rotorwing flight training.
Coptersafety is sponsoring a scholarship for one Whirly-Girls member to complete FAA H145 initial and/or ATP training, including ground, full-flight simulator, and practical tests.
This marks Coptersafety's second scholarship sponsorship with Whirly-Girls, aimed at increasing diversity and fostering a more inclusive workforce in vertical aviation.
Applications for the scholarship are open until early October and the award will be granted in 2025.

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There is no such thing as inexpensive flight training, especially when it comes to flying a rotorwing. Thankfully there are scholarships offered through Whirly-Girls International, a nonprofit, educational and charitable organization established in 1955 to promote women in the helicopter industry.

A member of Whirly-Girls will benefit from a scholarship sponsored by Coptersafety, an independent helicopter pilot training provider that specializes in simulator training for H125s, H145s, AW13s9, and AW169s. Training is done at Coptersafety’s facility near Helsinki Airport (EFHK). The independent training provider offers instruction for certification around the world.

Meg Godlewski

Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.