Had a BIG laugh of
HughMartin and
Floats Armed posts
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Well, if you can't become a helipilot, you can always fly FW, thereby that industry gets a wider representation of the population
(and I'm ready to get smashed by FW pilots now for that comment 
) - it's like everyone can get a driverslicense, but not everyone can learn to drive off-road ..
Haven't pilots in the FW industry for a looong time been seen as cool hard men of steel that could handle anything and still are seen like that in some part of the population? They can shack the stewardess just by their present. That probably attracts sometime - ehh - different personalities of students that I don't think are seen in heli's ..
But with the present of Low-fare airliners and most Flagcarriers following them, it's now just a busdrivers job with !!!!ty pay in the beginning in a long tincan at high altitude that can takeoff, go from A to B and land - that's it ..
I experience when I go out with FW students and people ask what we do, that they can totally relate what a FW pilot is, but saying I'm RW, they look more like a questionmark - yes pilot, but helicopter ?????????? - but where, how, what do they fly ..
I get the impression heli's never had the same glorie and God thanks for that - I know heli's are the coolest, funniest, exciting and tuffest to fly
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Said from one who recently converted his religion
(piloteducation) from FW to RW
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