Rotary wing endorsement is no joke. Rub your belly and pat the top of your head, now you have a TINY understanding of the concept. It is much like surfing on a column of air. A lot harder than it looks.
Ask "Mover" from YouTube, he was an F-16 ad F-18 combat pilot and had to give up his rotary wing dreams recently, because of a simple instructor and rotor craft rating issue.
Helo jocks are a completely different breed and skill sets, where the gear is so specific that one helo rating means very little to the next rating (airframe).
It’s not that hard. I’ve flown both helicopters and airplanes
Also fighter pilots are excellent at flying military aircraft but not so great transitioning to civil aircraft. They are used to having so much power they can literally power out of a stall which is impossible on anything but a fighter. Their skills sets are built around that and it’s hard for them to transition to civilian planes which are usually under powered.
Also flying one helicopter to the next is not a big transition. Going from an R44 to a 206 is no big change other than the amount of power you have available to you.
Source - I am a professional pilot with multiple type ratings and many hours of helicopter time (no license though it’s to expensive like $600 an hour for a tiny helicopter and $1800 an hour for the likes of a 206)
Finding an instructor for that particular air frame, available in your area, that was the problem Mover had. He threw in the towel once he realized it was going to be an uphill battle for very little return on his investment.
Yeah to get commercial in a helicopter costs around $120K and at best you can find a job that pays (on the high side) $70K. Plus the market is so saturated good luck finding a job and drones are taking a lot of jobs that helicopters used to do
I was told there is an abundance of helicopter pilots in the civilian world due to their infrequent use, and the frequency of use in the military being much higher. Not sure if that’s true.
Rotary wing endorsement is no joke. Rub your belly and pat the top of your head, now you have a TINY understanding of the concept. It is much like surfing on a column of air. A lot harder than it looks.
Ask "Mover" from YouTube, he was an F-16 ad F-18 combat pilot and had to give up his rotary wing dreams recently, because of a simple instructor and rotor craft rating issue.
Helo jocks are a completely different breed and skill sets, where the gear is so specific that one helo rating means very little to the next rating (airframe).
It’s not that hard. I’ve flown both helicopters and airplanes
Also fighter pilots are excellent at flying military aircraft but not so great transitioning to civil aircraft. They are used to having so much power they can literally power out of a stall which is impossible on anything but a fighter. Their skills sets are built around that and it’s hard for them to transition to civilian planes which are usually under powered.
Also flying one helicopter to the next is not a big transition. Going from an R44 to a 206 is no big change other than the amount of power you have available to you.
Source - I am a professional pilot with multiple type ratings and many hours of helicopter time (no license though it’s to expensive like $600 an hour for a tiny helicopter and $1800 an hour for the likes of a 206)
Finding an instructor for that particular air frame, available in your area, that was the problem Mover had. He threw in the towel once he realized it was going to be an uphill battle for very little return on his investment.
Yeah to get commercial in a helicopter costs around $120K and at best you can find a job that pays (on the high side) $70K. Plus the market is so saturated good luck finding a job and drones are taking a lot of jobs that helicopters used to do
I was told there is an abundance of helicopter pilots in the civilian world due to their infrequent use, and the frequency of use in the military being much higher. Not sure if that’s true.
That is 100% true and a lot of stuff a helicopter used to do drones do now