Originally Posted by
Parrot Pilot
Where’s Havick? He could probably shed some light on the transition for you. I think he swapped rotary for regional airline flying in the states....
Not sure what the Aussie regionals think of helicopter time though...
The transition is easy enough, only thing for me was learning all the company information and procedures for de-icing and all that goes along with winter ops in the US. Everything else falls into place at about 100 hours on the line. That being said I already had my fixed wing quals and hours for an FAA ATP so it for me it was just the type rating and line training.
As a side note; in the US there are no bonds for training at all. You will uograde as soon as you hit the 1000 hours required for captain, so basically a year after you get checked to line unless you already have some jet PIC time from corporate jets which count towards the 1000 hours.