As a Brit Expat who has been flying in Canada for aprox 20years, I would normally encourage anyone to come over and give it a go, especially at this time of year as it is normally the time companies start hiring for the busy summer season. To be honest though with all the machines parked at the moment I think as a 100hr pilot you would be wasting your time, but you never know, its all about timing. Up until the end of last year there were still seats to be filled with the outlook for work through the winter looking good on exploration, drills etc.But that has all been put on hold till who knows when. Some of us still working, but its real slow. Haven;t heard of too many lay offs, but most guys are contract over here so just means no lay off, but no phone calls either.
Don;t get too discouraged over the whiners on the Vertical forums about foreigners working here, these guys doing the whining seem to forget all the Canucks working international. It will pick up again, then we will need to import pilots again to fill seats. In the meantime if you are serious about coming over here, get some hours on vertical reference,, confined areas, hover exit, whiteout, longline precision and production, etc as these ae the real skills needed to make it here. Oh yeah and lots of turbine. Good luck.
