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Old 12th March 2006 | 17:53
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HillerBee
 
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First of all you have to get your CPL. That will take you 6 months of hard studying for you theoretical exams. In the meantime you have to build(buy) hours to be able to start your flight training for the CPL.

After that you will be a CPL with 185-200 hours. It's impossible to get a job with those hours anywhere in the world. If you would also do an instrument rating you might be lucky to get a job at the North Sea (Scotland/Holland).

But since you want to do it seasonal cq. contract work you only have a chance when you have around 1500 hours. Getting there is the hard part for everybody. You might consider after getting you PPL buying your own helicopter for building hours and after you have your CPL start doing sight-seeing tours and aerial photograpy. Then when you have 250 hours you could get an Instructors rating and start teaching to build up the hours to the 1500 hour mark. It's only a suggestion of course.
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