Career Change to Helicopter Pilot
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From: Yellow Brick Road
Back to Danny of Houston who started this thread. Now the brutal reality - the helicopter market is a completely different one from just five years ago.
There are many experienced instructors in the US who are desperately trying to find any job just to continue to build time but there aren't any. To make matters worse, most operators are asking for a minimum of 100 hours in the last 12 months. You'd never see this requirement in good times - only the employed can find jobs now. The unemployed stay unemployed.
There are many experienced instructors in the US who are desperately trying to find any job just to continue to build time but there aren't any. To make matters worse, most operators are asking for a minimum of 100 hours in the last 12 months. You'd never see this requirement in good times - only the employed can find jobs now. The unemployed stay unemployed.
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From: UK
I woke up and decided I wanted to travel the world, so after a lot of research I discovered if I joined the military they would take me all over the place, and all I had to do in return was (from time to time) get shot at.
Wouldn't you know it after a while they wanted to make me fly for a living.
All I wanted to do was travel, now I gotta drive myself !
Isn't it ironic.... If only I would have woken up wanting to be a pilot.
CC
Wouldn't you know it after a while they wanted to make me fly for a living.
All I wanted to do was travel, now I gotta drive myself !
Isn't it ironic.... If only I would have woken up wanting to be a pilot.
CC
"Just a pilot"
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From: Jefferson GA USA
Divers...
I never saw any old divers working in the Gulf of Mexico- unless thirty-five counts as "old". They make good money the few years they work, but the long term prospect is less satisfactory
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From: Texas
Career Change to Helicopter Pilot
Danny, how old are you?
As noted above, helicopter pilot is a profession that may not be easy to enter, but then, many worthwhile professions aren't easy.
Engineer: over 50-100K in college costs, typically to earn a degree, and that's to enter as a newbie.
Doctor: double to triple the time and cost in education, then a three or four year residency ...
MBA/White Collar fast tracker: college, two years MBA, you are in 50-70K before you even get in the door.
Oh, and plenty of hard work.
If you don't mind hard work, I say
Have a go! Follow your dream. Get obsessed and stay obsessed, and remember:
A day without a practice autorotation is a day without sunshine.
Avoid imitations
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From: Wandering the FIR and cyberspace often at highly unsociable times
After 35 years in the business I've decided this aviation thing sucks. I'm now hoping to find a new career as a gigolo.
Any advice? Anyone know any desperate, rich women looking to hire a stick buddy?
Any advice? Anyone know any desperate, rich women looking to hire a stick buddy?
Hovering AND talking
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From: Propping up bars in the Lands of D H Lawrence and Bishop Bonner
How desperate, and desperate for what? Plus I thought the whole idea of a igolo was a younger man and an older, rich woman .....
Cheers
Whirls (running for cover)
Cheers
Whirls (running for cover)
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From: Wandering the FIR and cyberspace often at highly unsociable times
But surely, there have to be some despera-does older than me?
You know, ones with their own transport (free bus pass), eyesight not too good, etc.
You know, ones with their own transport (free bus pass), eyesight not too good, etc.
