SloppyJoe
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: HKG
Age: 34
Posts: 302
Trex,
I expect he works for either either a dz near you in Nottingham or one further north where they operate turbine aircraft. I doubt 4 lifts would satisfy the owner let alone the insurance and then you have to get a type rating. I can see it getting up to 15K.
It takes 10 hours minimum to get the type rating onto the licence as per the training approval. Then we have to teach them to drop. We are not permitted to do drop training during the type rating training. If you work on a rough costs of £800 per hour all in you get an idea of where the costs come from.
So when we train a pilot we want a return on the investment and that generally precludes someone who is going to jump ship at the first sight of a shiny people tube.