I did not want to reply on the Forum as I am an instructor at heliflight and felt it would seem like i was advertising.
At the moment Heliflight Can not issue J-1 Visa's. This is due to a change in ownership (which is actually for the better). Because there was a change in ownership but the relevent paperwork was not submitted to the government by the person responible for it (who is now no longer with the company) we can not issue the visa untill the paperwork is sorted out.
Before it might not have been such a big problem but now with how twitchy the US government is with Visa'a and flight school you can imagine the head ache.
The last information we (the instructors) were given was about a month ago when the person now dealing with it said 3 months, so that should mean in about 2 month we should be good to issue them.
Ryan McPherson