frank arrestier

FRANK ARRESTIER
Professional Helicopter Pilot since 1987.
11 000 flight hours and over 6 500 hours for cinema and TV.
Instructor / Examinator / Supervisor.
Type of qualifications :
AS350 séries / EC130 / AS355 N
Experience with :
EC 120, Gazelle 341 et 342 , Bell 47, 206, 206L, Hughes 300 et 500, Alouette II, Robinson R22, Enstrom F28.
Qualified for night flights.
Experience as airshooting pilot :
- Movies :
« La Grande Boucle » (Laurent TUEL), « Largo Winch 2 » (Jérome Salle), « From Paris with Love » (Pierre Morel),
« Home » (Yann Arthus-Bertrand), « Ne le dis à personne » (Guillaume Canet), « Les Chevaliers du Ciel » (Gérard
Pirès), « Angel A » (Luc Besson), « L’Empire des Loups » (Chris Nahon), « Sky Dance » in Imax (Eric Magnan),
« Double Zéro » (Gérard Pirès), « Lola Zipper » (Ilan Duran Cohen).
- Advertising Movies :
Disneyland Paris (Hervé Coudrais), Total, Fiat Punto, Renault 21 and ALLIANZ (Gérard Pirès), la SNCF (Mathieu
Kassovitz), Saupiquet (Elie Chouraki), GMF, etc.
- Sports Events :
. 10 TOUR DE FRANCE + Paris-Roubaix, Paris-Nice, championnat du monde, etc...
. 17 rallies DAKAR
. IRC Rallies for Eurosport 2007 to 2012 (official pilot of all races in the world)
. Silk Way Rally DAKAR Series 2010
. The Transoriental 2008 ( Saint Petersbourg-Beijing)
. 50 WRC Rallies in Europe
. 8 Grand prix de France de Formula 1 for TF1
· 6 Tunisia and Morocco Rallies
. 6 Touquet Enduros
. 3 TransAfrica Classics
· 1998 Soccer WorldCup for TF1 . Tour de France VTT
. Tour de France VTT
- TV Shows :
· 9 seasons of La Carte aux Trésors for France 3
. Panorama Europe, series about 26 European countries (UER and France 3)
· Series, La France vue du Ciel, le Maroc vu du Ciel, Paris vu du Ciel for France 2 Studio Garbiel’s show,
for channels : Voyage, TMC, VHS and DVD collections.
. Secrets d’Histoire for France 2 · Les Trésors du Monde for France 2
· Trailer of Loft Story (M6), Star Academy (TF1), 19/20 (France 3)
· Winching and movie of Johnny HALLIDAY’s concert at the Stade de France
· Ushuaïa for TF1
· Several Yann Arthus Bertrand books
General Professional Experience :
· Pilot and in charge of several missions, eg : La Carte aux Trésors, Dakar, Transorientale, etc.
· Passenger transportation - Touristic cruises
· Freight Transportation
· Instruction
· Moutain flights, flights low height, flights with specific devices.
· EDF lines surveillance
· Parachute dropping - Winching
Missions in foreign countries :
Açores, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brasil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canaries, Chile, China, Cyprus,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Grece, Guadeloupe,
Guinea, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Mali, Malta, Martinique,
Morroco, Mauritania, Montenegro, Niger, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Senegal,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela.