"What can anyone tell me about Era?
Training, overtime, contracts, equipment, maintenance of equipment, etc."
Just recently finished working for Era Helicopters.
1. Training.... Not too bad, give good training but could be improved in some areas, they have just opened a new training center in Lake Charles and are working to improve training standards.
2. Overtime.... Depends on the aircraft you fly, the need for workover changes all the time depending on which pilots their short of, right now there's a lot of workover for AW139 captains.
3. Contracts.... Varies from production jobs in an A-Star, Pipeline patrol in EC135s to Drilling rigs in AW139s. Good opportunity to upgrade to different airframes and move to different contracts.
4. Equipments.... Nice airframes, lots of new aircraft, lots of variety, probably the best fleet in the GoM.
5. Maintenance.... Generally quite good but depends on the base... Always do a good preflight!!!