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Old 12th May 2016, 11:58
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Fareastdriver
 
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I'm afraid you are going to suck the hind tit back in the UK. As a newly qualified CPL of any country you are going to be the last to be considered in the few countries that hire expat pilots.
I know of one Norwegian pilot who got a co-pilot job in China with a CPL but that was a one-off, on the old boy basis, and he didn't last long in a Chinese speaking environment.
There are no shortages of helicopter pilots in any country that has a rotary branch in its armed forces. The experience that they have not got is what they will pay for, especially in the offshore market. At the moment new activity is at a standstill and those that are employed in this way are not too confident about continuing.

I was privileged to fly over a large part of China and South East Asia as a UK national contract pilot. Those days, I'm afraid, have gone.

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