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Why go to the US?
I did my PPL in South Africa and then went to the US to do my Comm and CFI. If I had know then what I know now I would have stayed in Cape Town and done all my training in an R44 for the same rate I did it here in the US in a S300CB (I did it on the west cost)
Check out Heli | Sales . Charters . Training and contact Janie.
Cape Town and South Africa is fantastic and a lot of Scandinavian down there.
Good food, cheap wine and nice scenery
PM me if you need more info and you can do it in Swedish.
Good luck
I did my PPL in South Africa and then went to the US to do my Comm and CFI. If I had know then what I know now I would have stayed in Cape Town and done all my training in an R44 for the same rate I did it here in the US in a S300CB (I did it on the west cost)
Check out Heli | Sales . Charters . Training and contact Janie.
Cape Town and South Africa is fantastic and a lot of Scandinavian down there.
Good food, cheap wine and nice scenery
PM me if you need more info and you can do it in Swedish.
Good luck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: UK, US, now more ɐıןɐɹʇsn∀
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MLP,
I don't see into Helicopter Academy's maintenance, but your comment's smelling of libel unless you have it solidly backed up (no idea how and here).
As for why they're 'cheap'. They take advantage of folks being desperate for extra time (be it JAA mins for FI, SFAR 73, heli add-on CPL (H) with sub-100TT helis, etc) and let them pay for flying for them on commercial operation (=Boatpix get paid for taking pictures, ie business).
Talk about flying for free. This ain't even so. It's flying comm ops and still paying for it. As long as you're light (170lbs and less) and have FAA CPL(H), you can get in touch with them. You'd fly intensively. There's plenty threads on Boatpix. Guys taking pics with FAA CFI can log the hours too as I presume and everyone's happy...
What matters, is that in the end it's win-win situation.
ToTall, I won't mind being wrong about prices of heli flying in SA with current exchange rates. What I've seen didn't convince me. Better than Europe, but against US.. Going to SA on a gap year won't hurt at all :-D
HillerBee, is that inclusive of VAT? Not everyone could/would pull off the self-employed paperwork and convince HMRC. Anyway, for SFH it's OK for UK.
The prices of dual incl VAT in UK look much worse than this.
I don't see into Helicopter Academy's maintenance, but your comment's smelling of libel unless you have it solidly backed up (no idea how and here).
As for why they're 'cheap'. They take advantage of folks being desperate for extra time (be it JAA mins for FI, SFAR 73, heli add-on CPL (H) with sub-100TT helis, etc) and let them pay for flying for them on commercial operation (=Boatpix get paid for taking pictures, ie business).
Talk about flying for free. This ain't even so. It's flying comm ops and still paying for it. As long as you're light (170lbs and less) and have FAA CPL(H), you can get in touch with them. You'd fly intensively. There's plenty threads on Boatpix. Guys taking pics with FAA CFI can log the hours too as I presume and everyone's happy...
What matters, is that in the end it's win-win situation.
ToTall, I won't mind being wrong about prices of heli flying in SA with current exchange rates. What I've seen didn't convince me. Better than Europe, but against US.. Going to SA on a gap year won't hurt at all :-D
HillerBee, is that inclusive of VAT? Not everyone could/would pull off the self-employed paperwork and convince HMRC. Anyway, for SFH it's OK for UK.
The prices of dual incl VAT in UK look much worse than this.
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Svek28, people have been using boatpix for JAA land as far as I deduce from past posts. Other two 'hourbuilding' options way below were/could be hassle.
Helicopter Academy wants people to have CPL, right? so you're legal to do comm ops. Well, since you're ain't getting paid, you don't have the issues of working without authorisation. Or if so, it's very grey area due to no income..
AFAIK, the guy taking pics is their CFI, so they can log hours in all flights they 'instruct' in. You should have PIC as sole manipulator of controls.
There were the discussions on traffic watch either Commander Chuck (who logs time and lets you fly... so not really PIC in JAA terms if he's not CFI) or HeliClass' (or however it's called, too tired now) which is tad different.
HB That's damn good deal in the UK then. I googled the co. and it looks like in Kent. No working website at the mo. Thanks for the info for future reference.
Helicopter Academy wants people to have CPL, right? so you're legal to do comm ops. Well, since you're ain't getting paid, you don't have the issues of working without authorisation. Or if so, it's very grey area due to no income..
AFAIK, the guy taking pics is their CFI, so they can log hours in all flights they 'instruct' in. You should have PIC as sole manipulator of controls.
There were the discussions on traffic watch either Commander Chuck (who logs time and lets you fly... so not really PIC in JAA terms if he's not CFI) or HeliClass' (or however it's called, too tired now) which is tad different.
HB That's damn good deal in the UK then. I googled the co. and it looks like in Kent. No working website at the mo. Thanks for the info for future reference.
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HillerBee,
was you talking about HeliCharter at Manston? I rang them this week and they don't do SFH or training any more??
I was under the impression that Tiger at Shobdon was the cheapest in the UK for SFH??
was you talking about HeliCharter at Manston? I rang them this week and they don't do SFH or training any more??
I was under the impression that Tiger at Shobdon was the cheapest in the UK for SFH??
