#1. I would make an educated guess of Yes. 300 hour pilots are picking and chosing who they want to work for, you have 2000.
#2. If you want to fly in BC, the Chinook course is as good as any, probably better than most. They do mountain/recurrency training for a lot of commercial operators that found out the hard way that they should leave training to professionals. They also train Transport Canada inspectors. Plus they can convert your FAA license to Canadian.
There is no CHC school. CHC only has one helicopter in Canada - a 332L1 in Halifax. You must be thinking of Canadian Helicopters in Penticton. They have good credibility internationally, but are only considered average for the BC market, and some operators even feel their training isn't rooted in the real world (after your eighth "dumbell" turn around a landing sight, your passenger will have decided to contract someone else next time). They are also expensive, which doesn't matter if some government is paying for it but we presume this is coming out of your own pocket.
#3 Maybe somebody will post the price of the Canadian Helicopters course and the Chinook course (I'm offshore right now). Both will probably seem cheap compared to what they gouge you in Europe. Used to be 25% cheaper than the US, but the exchange has gone up.
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