Originally Posted by
Blade888
Any FAA helicopter pilot currently flying in China? How painful is the conversion from Commercial FAA to CAAC?
I’m currently working for Airbus Helicopters in Singapore, instructing in their FFS and am interested in flying in China
1. Foreigners need to be sponsored by a Chinese Company to work in China.
2. You really need to be fluent in Mandarin if you want to fly within China.
3. Licensing should be no drama, but the medical can be troublesome.
4. I am not aware of any Chinese helicopter operators using non-Mandarin speaking foreign pilots. Not including SkyShuttle (Macau) or Heliservices (Hong Kong).
5. The Chinese operators tend to select and sponsor Chinese nationals for helicopter pilot training overseas to fulfill their pilot requirements.
6. There is a Chinese helicopter pilot training organization in ZhuHai using FFS, but they do not hire foreigners any more.