Certified Flight Instructor (Commercial Pilot Certificate) Helicopter
Build hours, teach what you've learned, and launch your career.
Why Commercial Pilot Certificate
The Most Common First Helicopter Job
For most career-track helicopter pilots, instructing is the bridge between your Commercial certificate and the 1,000-hour mark that unlocks Part 135 charter, EMS, and turbine PIC opportunities. It's also where your knowledge gets bulletproof — you don't truly understand a maneuver until you've taught it.
Helicopter Experts has been hiring its own CFI graduates for 30 years. If we have an opening when you finish, you'll already know the syllabus, the airframes, the airspace, and the standards. Many of our current and past instructors trained here from zero.
CFI-H (Certified Flight Instructor)
Teach Private and Commercial helicopter students. Requires Commercial Pilot Certificate (Helicopter) and the FAA Fundamentals of Instructing & Flight Instructor Knowledge Tests.
Instrument Instructor
Teach Helicopter Instrument Rating students. Requires CFI-H plus the FAA Flight Instructor Instrument Knowledge Test and an instrument-instructor practical.
Trained by a Authorized Flight Instructor
Founder Michael Bisek holds the FAA Authorized Flight Instructor designation — awarded only to CFIs with exceptional pass-rate records.
CFI Hiring Pipeline
When openings come up, we hire from inside first. Build your hours where you trained.
Become a CFI Where You Trained
Talk to a Authorized Flight Instructor about your Commercial Pilot Certificate pathway.