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Becoming a helicopter pilot is very challenging but also can be a great deal of fun and is beyond rewarding. The cost for training can be cost prohibitive for many but there is some relief if you are willing to look. Anyone that is truly serious about getting a helicopter pilot's license should be prepared for some challenges, but anything worth having is challenging.
The cost for becoming a pilot these days isn't getting any cheaper; in fact it could cost as much as seventy thousand dollars to get a commercial pilot's license. Don't get discouraged however, because there are some programs, grants, loans and ways around having to pay such exorbitant prices.
First of all keep in mind that the process is usually broken up into sections. Step one is to get your private pilots license. This requires seventy hours of ground school training and forty hours of flight time. These times I'll be giving are of course the minimums, in some cases in may take more flight hours depending on one's aptitude.
The next step is to obtain a commercial pilot's license. This will require one hundred and twenty five more ground school hours and an additional one hundred and ten flight hours. You will also have to pass written, oral, and flight testing at each step in the process. As you can see the cost at this point is substantial as the commercial testing alone might be as much as forty thousand dollars or more.
The next step will depend on what your goals are. If you intend to make flying helicopters a career, and you are not already employed, then you probably will go on to become a certified instructor level one and two. This will require an additional thirty hours of ground school and an additional thirty hours of flight time. What this will do is prepare you for the first money saving tactic.
The reason becoming a flight instructor can be so beneficial is that, instead of paying hundreds of dollars per hour to build valuable flight time you are actually getting paid to build hours as an instructor. To be honest, the good employers won't hire you unless you have quite a few hours built up. It could take as many as three thousand hours to get hired on and that would be ridiculously expensive to undertake on your own dime.
This is the part where we talk about ways to save money or at least spread out the payments to chewable chunks. Not too many people could come up with seventy thousand dollars at once and there isn't a ton of easy to get school loans out there. The good news is there are now a few school loans available where in the past they were non-existent or few and far between. If you are lucky enough to get hired by certain firms they might pay for your schooling but if you are completely on your own then flight trainer is the path for you.
So the long and the short of becoming a pilot is that even though it can be expensive it is not impossible to do. With a little patience and willingness anyone can become a helicopter pilot.
Aris Thanatose is a writer with years of experience in the areas of personal development, finances and various other topics. If you want to read more valuable information check out exoticwisdom for other related articles check out helicopter pilot.
Private Pilot License - Pre Solo Flight Training Costs
Your Pre- Solo Training is the first Part of your Private Pilot License Training. In order for you to solo you have to be instructed and be found " COMPETENT" in the areas listed in the Student Pilot Regulations of the FAA. I Have them listed in the Private Pilot License Requirements in my other articles.
Now there are 15 Aeronautical Experience areas that need to be covered and you need to be proficient at them. I am finding two different types of students have two different ideas about soloing.
The Younger Student: The younger students want to get soloed as fast as possible.
The Older Students: I have a lot of students who are my age or older. These students are going after their life long dream but are now in the phase of their life were they don't want to do anything stupid. In these cases the student doesn't really care about soloing. So I move them ahead and go through the cross country phase. I have had many older students that get to about 30 hours, I have completed almost everything with them and finally say, " It is time to get out there on your own" At this time they go do all of their solo time. Then we come back and finish up with the flight test preparation.
In Either case if the student is not ready to solo I move them forward.
For the purpose of this article I just add up the cost for you to get up to that phase of your training. If you are not ready to solo I just move on to the Post Solo Requirements.
If you take a look at the requirements you can see that there are 15 areas that you have to be instructed in and it has to be logged in your logbook with an instructors signature. I always tell students not to focus on the solo. You want to focus on being a safe pilot and getting your Private Pilot License done on schedule and on a budget.
Now in my syllabus I have 13 Flights to cover these areas with the addition of a Spin Entries Lesson and a Review Flight. In know that spin entries are not required but years back I had a student get himself into a spin. Since then I try and show every student spin entries and recoveries.
All of this training adds up to about 17 hours and 3-5 hours of ground instruction. Now you have to remember that is me. If you have a good dedicated instructor, you should be somewhere close to this. If you are at a school that is going through flight instructors left and right, you can expect having different instructors. This turns out to be more money. Once again the reason I tell people to plan things out ahead of time.
I will use an aircraft rate of $120 Per hour For a C-172 and $45 for the Instructor Since that is what I charge. You will find many different rates in different areas of the countries so just use my numbers as a guide for you. I have put 1.5 hours of solo time in here since your first and second solo should be close to this. If you are not ready to solo you will pick it up later on.
17 Hours Dual Instruction @ $165 Per Hour
1.5 Hours Solo @ $120.00 Per Hour
5 Hours Ground Instruction @ $45 Per hour ( Flight Instructor )
Total Dual Instruction $2805.00
Total Solo Time $180.00
Total Ground Instruction $225.00
TOTAL $3210.00
Now you want to remember this should be close with a dedicated flight instructor and flying on a regular basis. I would suggest 4 lessons per week. If you are not ready to solo, you should ask your instructor to move you forward. Most people have problems with landings so there is no reason not to move forward with the rest of the requirements because each flight you have to land. You will get the lightbulb to come on soon or later. Many times you will find that if you stop focusing on just landings you will start to get them nice and smooth.
One other thing you want to remember is you are not the only person in the world who has problems in certain areas. Most students in general have the same problems and usually it is landings. Don't let it bother you, you have been driving a car all your life and it takes a very long time to break the habits.
Soloing is a great milestone but you want to remember that your main goal is to be a safe and confident pilot. I always ask students, would you rather solo in 10 hours or would you rather be prepared to handle any emergency that came up. You are dealing with a machine and sometimes no matter how well maintained they are, they are going to break.
Your goal is to "FLY THE PLANE" and handle the emergency so you can make it to happy hour.
Hope to see you in the sky
Airfreddy
About the Author
Frederick Longe has been flying since 1985. He has logged over 9,000 Hours of flight instruction alone. In 1998 Longe was awarded one of the first Master CFI Designations in the country by the National Association Of Flight Instructors. Airfreddy'sPrivate Pilot Training Information Website
Can a diabetic get a private pilot's license?
Can a diabetic get a medical clearance for a private pilot license in the USA?
What additional tests, requirements are required? Where can I get that information on the web?
O.K...I am a private pilot and a diabetic, type two using oral mediaction for control.
You must do the following.
1) Pass your normal class three medical exam.
2) Using the latest FAR guidelines create a letter fro your physician to sign that exactly answers the concerns of the FAA.
a) You are in good control.
b) You have no serious side effects of symtpoms.
c) you have documented your medications, dosage and frequency.
d) Your ACL within the last 60 days, 7.0 or less is best.
What to expect.
I can only speak to oral medication control.
1) The chief flight surgeon in Oklahoma FAA will ask you to certify to the above every six months. Once satisifed, he will issue a provisional approval for your class three medical for this six month tme period.They really want a ACL of 7.0 or less.
Now for insulin dependent diabetics.
If you can document adequate control they will let you fly on a provisional medical class three certificate but will require you to test your blood sugar levels before flight, in flight and after landing and keep a journal of results.
Bottomline - it will be entirely up to the discretion of the flight surgeon whether or not he will issue a class three mdical certificate. If you want a class two or class one you need to reach out to the flight surgeon in Oklahoma city, FAA regional center and have a cndid discussion on whether or not this is possible. If it is possible an airline may not ever hire you regardless.
Flying as a diabetic is expensive, and requires a lot of effort to keep on top of your medical certificate...but not impossible.
Reisterstown teen begins solo flight to California
Foster, 17, starts cross-country adventure two days after earning pilot's license While fellow seniors from Friends School of Baltimore squeeze in last afternoons at the beach before classes start Sept. 1, 17-year-old Nate Foster will be flying to California by himself in a cramped, two-seat airplane, just days after earning his pilot's license.
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