Helicopter Jobs

"Shiver Me Timbers" wrote in message
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So he choose the largest company that had offered a job as an aviionics
tech with the understanding that if a helicopter had to moved short
distances around the airport, or field that he was the one that did it.

I remember one day he logged sixty seconds of flying time moving a
machine about one hundred and fifty feet.

It all added up and within two years he was flying a 206.

Considering the weather and forest fires this season have you
considered trying to find a job as part of the ground crew on a
fireline.

That would keep you close to the business and put some potatoes
on the kitchen table.

I have to agree with this approach with pretty much any profession.

I've known so many people who walked out of school and expected a
high-paying job when they really had little experience in the field.

It would seem that step one is to work around helicopters and gradually
build flight-time and experience.

Still, it would seem that with the current state of military affairs, we'll
be having an influx of military pilots with lots of experience. That sucks
for people like me who are probably too old for military helicopter service
and would rather not get shot at.

On the bright side, my local Police department tells me that they don't hire
existing chopper pilots for their work. Instead they find officers
interested in helicopter work among the patrol force and through a highly
selective process, choose which ones to send for training.

Any way you approach it, it seems that it takes a lot of time and effort to
become a heli pilot - and until the supply of pilots goes down (or the
demand for helicopters increases), the salaries will remain low.