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Old 14th Oct 2009, 09:58
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Superpilot
 
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Dream on buddy.

All you need to do is look at job ads for chopper pilots. You will very quickly notice that all require a minimum of 500 hours commercial time. For offshore jobs, they want at least 1,000 hours in a turbine powered chopper. Unless you know somebody fairly powerful you are not going to get a job flying helicopters for a living straight after graduating. There's a small chance of an instruction job maybe but for that you'll need to do additional training. It's a tough world out there.
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