How are rotary hours viewed by airlines?
Just about to finish my CPL(H). I'm considering doing the fATPL(A) as well to have more irons in the fire. (It's actually cheaper to get a helicopter IR by going through IR(A) than it is to do the IR(H) directly. 1 hour in a twin helicopter costs about 1000 pounds!)
I can count up to 100hrs of my helicopter P1 time towards the CPL(A) 150 requirement. (Don't think it's the same the other way around).
Anyway - I'm still a little on the fence about whether to plow on with more helicopter time up to the 100 P1 (which will give me a total of about 300 rotary - lots of dual in heli training) or whether to start down the FW road now.
Can anyone give me any feedback on how my rotary hours would be viewed if I was looking for an airline position but with 300 helicopter hours and 100 fixed wing hours and CPL/IRs in both? Is it just total time that matters or is the split important?
Thanks