R22 Hourbuilding JAA in USA

[Ema_CTA]

Good morning to all,

Somebody of you can suggest good USA Heli school, for hour building?
I'm Italian and I need to do 105 hours on R22 to start commercial licence in Italy.

The italian prices is very high 320 € per hour, and I must spend about 35000 € for hour building.

Thanks to all Folks,

Emanuele

[Smike]

Maybe U could try Bristow Academy(Florida)

http://www.heli.com/

Cheers!

[Bravo73]

You might struggle with Helicopter Adventures/Bristow Academy. There is too great a demand from their own students to allow their aircraft to disappear for hour building purposes. (And they are mostly S300s anyway).

Emanuele,

I suggest that you first decide which part of the USA you want to fly in then start googling for R22 flight schools. There are lots and lots and lots. Then it will be a matter of phoning and emailing to establish who will offer you the best 'block booking' rate.

Get your JAA PPL converted to an FAA PPL (or just sit the FAA PPL flight test when you get there), get the required visa and away you go.

Of course, this matter is probably already covered in the Training thread so I suggest you have a look there first. I think that there is also a sticky in the Private Flying forum outlining the various visa and licence requirements.


Best of luck.

[matthew cobham]

you might try vortex, now called bristow acadamy, very good reputation, and well priced, they are based in new iberia, i think now which is in either missisippi or louisianna and can do the required visas you would need.

good luck with your training

blue skies

matt

[Bravo73]

Vortex will probably have the same issues of availability as Helicopter Adventures.

I suggest that you target the smaller schools (who would appreciate 100hrs of guaranteed income).

[BRDMAN]

If your looking to fly into the east side of the country, HAI/Bristow, Helicopter Academy/Boatpix, Palm Beach Helicopters, and Tomlinson Helicopters in Florida are all great schools. Boatpix might find you a slot flying photo ops and making a few $ on the side. IF your looking furthur west, Longhorn Helicopters and Epic Helicopters are good texas schools other wise id check out Hillsboro in Oregon. Good Luck!!

[Bravo73]

All great suggestions for training schools, BRDMAN, but all probably too busy to let a helicopter go for extended periods.

And to work for BoatPix, surely you need the minimum of a CPL(H)??? Emanuele is in the process of hour-building towards her CPL so she only has a PPL at the moment.

RTFQ, eh?

[volition]

Boatpix will not pay you!! They do offer the R22 with an instructor for $100/hour+plus fuel!

[rudestuff]

as long as you don't mind being 10+ miles offshore in a 22....

[Whirlybird]

Emanuele,
I did some hourbuilding back in 2002 with Rotor Aviation at Long Beach in Southern California, www.rotoraviation.com. Nice people, reasonable prices, enough R22s for you to fly as much as you want. They kind of specialise in people going over from the UK to do this, and they'll arrange accommodation and car hire for you if you want, and pick you up at the airport on arrival.

[Ema_CTA]

Thanks to all Folks,

I need only a place in the USA or in UK where I can fly without spend about 350 € per hour, as like italian prices is...

I will try to find out something, Thanks for cooperation.

Hope nice flights

Emanuele