Hi everybody,
These birds, especially the good old Magnificient Eight ( Mi-8T/MTV ), are fascinating me for as long as I remember.
While it's one of the most widely produced helicopter ever, the global civilianmarket is rather small, or closed.
I'd like to get UP TO DATE infos/tips/contacts on how to get a feet into this very unknown world of Russian Aircrafts. And please, no exagerated sarcasms about how unsafe Russian Aircrafts are, I'd like to get real solid infos from this thread.
After many researches, I found these operators currently operating the type as civilian are :
- UTair
- Skytech
- Hevilift
- Abakan Air
- Heli Niugini
- Ukrainian Helicopters
- Valan ICC
After getting very little feedback from direct contact, it seems they at least require 200 hours on type for a co-pilot. That basically means, if you're not coming from an Army which operates them, you're unlucky.
Cannot believe this old workhorse is so hard to reach.
Thanks for your input :-)
