The 3 most important qualities a CPL H should possess?
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here's more from another forum;
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Minimum 10,000 hours, type ratings on everything made since the Wright Brothers, a Master’s degree, the willingness to carry baggage and clean helicopters if they’re not already helping the engineer maintain them, have worked for one outfit in during their career and left only when the owner died, and willing to work everywhere on a moment’s notice for undefined periods, plus 2000 hours single pilot IFR, 2000 hours precision longlining, 2000 hours production longline, with 2000 hours of that above 7000 feet, plus 2000 hours offshore. And be younger and less qualified than the Chief Pilot!
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Minimum 10,000 hours, type ratings on everything made since the Wright Brothers, a Master’s degree, the willingness to carry baggage and clean helicopters if they’re not already helping the engineer maintain them, have worked for one outfit in during their career and left only when the owner died, and willing to work everywhere on a moment’s notice for undefined periods, plus 2000 hours single pilot IFR, 2000 hours precision longlining, 2000 hours production longline, with 2000 hours of that above 7000 feet, plus 2000 hours offshore. And be younger and less qualified than the Chief Pilot!
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Is that flyin' or dancin'?
I would have said:
1) Dashing good looks.
2) Incredible intelligence.
3) Modesty.
I would have said:
1) Dashing good looks.
2) Incredible intelligence.
3) Modesty.
ST, just let me re-arrange my white ankle boots, and place my handbag in a strategic location!
KWC, Ooh, you're so demanding. Would 2 out of 3 do? (though of course I have 4 out of the 3!)
KWC, Ooh, you're so demanding. Would 2 out of 3 do? (though of course I have 4 out of the 3!)
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That depends on how good you are at holding your collective... and which 4 out of 3 you have
Purely, of course, another good quality of a helicopter pilot... i have excellent grip. 
holding your collective
Truth be told, I don't grip it much these days: I watch whilst others do it for me! Always poised, like a coiled rope, you understand!
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If you fly GOM,
- Ability to smell seagull refuse and corpses for extended periods of time in the sun
- Willingness to live in trailers for half of your life, mostly with people that are "just glad to have a job flying" but don't seem to have much in terms of a life.
- Abilities for washing aircraft after flying all day while being eaten alive by marsh mosquitoes.
- Diplomacy in dealing with passengers that ask unreasonable things all day and question your judgement when you don't do what they want.
- Willingness to sleep in small room with 6 other people with nasty personal hygiene and that you have never seen before.
MMMh what else.
After that, the flying over there is as easy as driving a car down a country road, only less enjoyable.
(I know this is more like an answer you would get at JH but I just couldn't resist, sorry, and BTW I don't work in the GOM anymore, I really don't know what got into me, glad to have done it, as it has helped me REALLY appreciate all my previous jobs!)
- Ability to smell seagull refuse and corpses for extended periods of time in the sun
- Willingness to live in trailers for half of your life, mostly with people that are "just glad to have a job flying" but don't seem to have much in terms of a life.
- Abilities for washing aircraft after flying all day while being eaten alive by marsh mosquitoes.
- Diplomacy in dealing with passengers that ask unreasonable things all day and question your judgement when you don't do what they want.
- Willingness to sleep in small room with 6 other people with nasty personal hygiene and that you have never seen before.
MMMh what else.
After that, the flying over there is as easy as driving a car down a country road, only less enjoyable.
(I know this is more like an answer you would get at JH but I just couldn't resist, sorry, and BTW I don't work in the GOM anymore, I really don't know what got into me, glad to have done it, as it has helped me REALLY appreciate all my previous jobs!)
Last edited by BlenderPilot; 16th Aug 2007 at 13:34.
