Got my helicopter license today
 

Officially a pilot! On to my commercial license

hell ya man. Hows hawaii going for ya?

f'in sweet! That didnt take all that long... Congrats man!

That's damn cool man. Congrats!!!!!!!!

congrats man, arent you guys getting hit with a tsunami?

Congrats man. Now go move over to the big island so you can give me a free helicopter tour. You have until the end of May to make it happen. haha

Thanks guys. Hawai'i is amazing. The shit I see when i fly lol..it's so pretty. Honolulu is crowded and overpriced though.


blkstang..hit up Paradise Helicopters when you're out there..I have a buddy who flies for them. they kick ass. can't get you a discount though

Nice job top gun, didn't take long. What is your long-term goal? Do you want to own your own helicopter, do some aerial logging stuff, I don't really know what one does.

I was just going to ask this. Do you plan on getting a job flying helicopters? If so, doing what exactly?

well..in a nut shell, I still have four licenses to get. Commercial is next, Instrument is after that. Instrument is flying the helicopter with only the instruments. Part of the training with that is taking off, flying to a location and landing somewhere with out ever being able to look out side the helicopter (they used special glasses with limited view). The last two certifications are Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) and Certified Flight Instrument Instructor (CFII).

The reason you get these last two licenses is because by the time you're done with instrument, you only have about 200 hours of flight time. And companies don't hire untill you have about 1000. Closer to 1500 these days. So how do you get that many hours? You teach. So after you get all 5 certs, if you're good enough, the school will usually hire you back on as an instructor..and you do that for 1-3 depending on the amount of students until you have 1000 hours or so.

At which point, you start applying for jobs like flying oil rigs in the golf, or heli tours somewhere, utility work or whatever. This job is where you build your serious hours, and get turbine helicopter experience. do this for a couple years, you've got flight time, turbine time, experience. and then you start looking for your 'dream job'. I'm kind of aiming in the direction of Medevac, Search and rescue, or heli skiing. but I'm pretty open. there's a lot of cool jobs out there. I've got a loooong way to go still.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/13/v...inook-helicop/

Dream job? Fly helicopter to top of mountain..... With ferrari

that's pretty bad ass

That's really interesting. I didn't know that much went into being a commercial pilot. I assumed there was a lot of training, but I didn't think you had to log 1500 hours of flight time. That almost seems a bit absurd.

If you spent 4 hours per day in the air, it'd take 375 days to hit the 1500hr mark.

Yeah, and there are pilots with 10,000, 20,000 and even 30 fucking thousand hours. usually dudes who joined the service at 18 and have flown for 30 years...vietnam pilots n whatnot

Congrats man!