Rotorcraft
Robinson Safety Course Logs 21,000 Graduates
Helicopter OEM Robinson offers popular 3.5-day safety course at its U.S. factory and through foreign dealers throughout the year.

Robinson Helicopter has had more than 21,000 pilots attend the three-and-a-half-day safety course at its California factory since the mid-1980s and thousands more at foreign-based courses sponsored by its dealers in 30 different countries to date. Robinson exports roughly 70 percent of the helicopters it builds. In any given year the factory teaches 14 to 16 courses with attendance averaging 55 to 60 for each one. Attendance for the foreign-taught courses can run from 15 to 110 students each, depending on location, with larger markets such as Australia, Brazil, and South Africa. This year the company also held four separate safety courses in China with the assistance of Chin Tu, owner of Civic Helicopters in Carlsbad, California. Tu speaks fluent Mandarin.