For our fallen......we will not forget your service and your sacrifice.

CW4 Dave Carter

“Extortion 17”

August 6th, 2011

Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan

Rotors of the Rockies, Inc. began operations in 2001 with one helicopter and one pilot. Ten years later, we've flown more 29,000 flight hours. Every other flight school in Colorado has a chief pilot or an owner that trained at Rotors.

Mike Fyola is Rotor's Chief Pilot. He and his wife Regina own Rotors of the Rockies. They have been married for 20 years, and have three children.

Mike is a 10-year veteran of the Denver and Jefferson County Sheriff's Offices, and a recently retired National Guard Chief Warrant Officer and combat veteran, who spent five years training with the ARNG High Altitude Training facility in Eagle. Mike has logged more than 7000 helicopter flight hours; he has flown medical evacuation and search and rescue flights, dozens of photographers and film crews, hundreds of sightseers, former Colorado governor Bill Owens, Congressmen, and NASCAR drivers. Mike and Rotors of the Rockies have appeared locally on Channels 7 and 9, and were featured on the History Channel in 2004.

Rotors offers flight training on a variety of levels, from private pilot to certified flight instructor, and the full range of instrument training. The majority of our flight training is done in Schweizer 300C helicopters, the safest, most reliable piston helicopter of record. Schweizers are uniquely suited to Colorado's high altitude, and like all Schweizer products, have no special FAA safety restrictions.
All our helicopter maintenance is preformed by a licensed independent company. We follow a strict maintenance schedule, and we have an open-book maintenance policy.

Since opening our doors in 2001, Rotors has logged more than 28,000 flight hours, and helped students obtain over 400 helicopter ratings. Customers have taken pictures, made films, proposed to sweethearts, viewed property, and dropped golf balls from our helicopters.
Rotors is the training center for the Nebraska State Patrol Air Unit and the City of Omaha Police Department. We have trained pilots for the Albuquerque PD, San Juan County (NM) Sheriff’s Department, Boulder County Drug Task Force, Douglas County Sheriff, Colorado State Patrol, Denver PD, Westminster PD, and Colorado Springs PD. Rotors has provided air support for the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office, and trained with the Boulder County Drug Task Force and Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force.

 

A Little Bit of Who We Are:

Here are a few pictures of work we've done: our own pilots, places we've actually been, flying helicopters we have experience with.