| If you are dreaming of becoming a helicopter pilot you | | | | It takes a few months, sometimes a year, to get |
| need to know that you have to go for helicopter pilot | | | | though helicopter pilot training, but you have to consider |
| training. There are a large number of things that you | | | | yourself lucky. If you chose to go for fixed wing |
| will have to do if you are going to make it through the | | | | training you will spend most of your time sitting on the |
| course. You will find that these rules and regulations | | | | runway waiting for clearance to take off or taxing, |
| are set in place in order to protect your as a pilot, and | | | | thus not learning much. When you are in a helicopter, |
| they are there to keep your passengers and other air | | | | you learn from the word go, because once you are |
| travelers safe when they fly. There are a few things | | | | airborne you start learning - and that takes but a |
| that you will have to do before you go for helicopter | | | | minute. |
| pilot training. | | | | If you are going to become a pilot, you need to know |
| You will find that a good schooling career is a must if | | | | that you are going to have to take a medical course |
| you are going to stand a chance in becoming a pilot. | | | | to. That is right; you will need a 3rd class medical |
| Most courses are different though, so you will want to | | | | certificate. As mention above, you will need 40 hours |
| make sure that you know the many different subjects | | | | or so flight training, but you will also need an additional |
| that you need to take in school to get into a pilot | | | | 10 hours of solo fly time. You will find that the writing or |
| training course. You will need logical thinking of course, | | | | theory work along takes up about 8 months of your |
| which is why you will find that mathematics is a must | | | | time, so you will have to be prepared for that. |
| have before you can even think of taking flight. | | | | Once you are ready and have mentally prepared |
| Getting your wings or getting your license is hard work. | | | | yourself for your journey ahead, you will need to go on |
| You will find that there are a number of hours of | | | | and find a school to join. There are a number of really |
| theory that you will have to complete if you are going | | | | great helicopter pilot training schools in the country, so |
| to make it to the fun stuff. Once you have done the | | | | they should not be hard to find. You will want to find |
| theory set work, you will have to spend time with the | | | | one that offers you the best, and a state of the art |
| simulator. Here you will spend 40 hours or more in | | | | simulator, because it is with this tool that you will learn |
| training, and no, you cannot do them all at once. | | | | how to fly a helicopter for the first time. |