NEWS photo Terry Peters

LADY. HELICOPTER pilot Pauline Gerbracht, proudly holds up her licence. Gerbracht is one of only a few female helicopter
pots In’ Canada. When she’s not fiying with her husband, who is also a pilat, Gerbracht tikes to paint.
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Helicopter fiying
harder than it looks

PILOT PAULINE Gerbracht thought learning to
fly a helicopter would be easy.The first hour of
instruction changed her mind.

By DAWN BURKE

But Gerbracht perservered
and now she is one of only

eight female helicopter pilots :

in Canada.

Gerbracht, 2 North Van-
couver resident, became in-
terested in aviation 10 years
ago. Enrolling in a fixed
wing private pilots’ course at
Pitt Meadows, she learned to
fly a Cessna 150 and 172 on
land and on floats. Ger-
bracht later took a basic in-
strument course and also
learned to do aerobats in a
Piper Cub.

Encouraged by husband
Harry, also a_ helicopter
pilot, Gerbracht began
lessons on their used Hughs
300 in September.

Gerbracht quickly realized
that because of a helicopter’s
vertical, sidewards and
rearward flight, each
manoeuver is more critical
than fixed wing flight. The
course, slated to consist of

25 hours of lessons over six
weeks stretched out to 100
hours of lessons over six
months. Dick Wood, the in-
Structor with Skyway Air
Services at Langley who
trained Gerbracht, says very
few students complete the
course in under 100 hours.
‘Helicopter flying is one
of the most exhilarating ex-
Periences in the world,” says
Gerbracht, who admits she
was tempted to quit two or
three times. ‘It was close to
graduation day in February
that I discovered I was one
of only eight female
helicopter pilots in Canada.
That is quite an ac-
complishment. I love it!’
She says. .

Gerbracht plans to tour
the countryside by
helicopter, taking
photographs from which she
does her oil paintings. In the
future she would like to at-
tempt aerobats in the
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