| Getting a pilot's license with the intent on learning to fly | | | | lives in the process. This means that the chances are |
| a helicopter is a very ambitious goal. But of all of the | | | | your life as a helicopter pilot will be exciting, fast paced |
| aircraft, the helicopter is probably one of the most | | | | and always doing something urgent taking you to the |
| versatile and useful kinds of flying in society. However, | | | | most interesting of places. |
| it might be obvious that it is more complicated to fly a | | | | But of the many ways that helicopter pilots find great |
| helicopter than a conventional private airplane. So the | | | | jobs helping others in society, rescue missions may be |
| training is more extensive, difficult and expensive as | | | | the most meaningful. During the hurricane Katrina |
| well. But adding the helicopter to the list of your piloting | | | | disaster, it was a common thing to see helicopter pilots |
| skills on your resume will make you tremendously | | | | going in and plucking people off of rooftops to take |
| marketable in a field that is always in need of well | | | | them to safety and to be reunited with their grateful |
| trained pilots. | | | | families. In forest fire situations, helicopters are what |
| You don't have to look far to find ways that helicopter | | | | are used to dump water or chemicals on the fire to try |
| pilots are getting great jobs in all segments of society. | | | | and stop the burning. And it is the helicopter that is |
| Every local news team has at least one if not several | | | | used to get in the middle of danger and get people out |
| traffic or weather helicopters to help report the news. | | | | or to get the injured to medical professionals quickly |
| Every day these pilots whisk a news team off to the | | | | and save lives. Your skills in handling that complicated |
| heart of a fast breaking story, often a story that is | | | | aircraft will never seem more crucial than when you |
| filmed directly from the cockpit of their helicopter. | | | | are using them to benefit your fellow man in trouble. |
| The need for helicopters to assist law enforcement is | | | | You should know the demands that will be put on you |
| easy to witness by just watching any cop or detective | | | | when you start on your course to learn to fly a |
| show on television or in the movies. But the way the | | | | helicopter and get a pilot's license that says you can |
| pilot of the helicopter becomes a big part of many | | | | be counted on to handle this important vehicle with skill. |
| police situations is not overstated. For law | | | | Unlike a conventional airplane, the helicopter and |
| enforcement, the need to get right to the heart of a | | | | maneuver straight up and side to side with |
| crime situation is nothing short of critical. Time makes a | | | | phenomenal flexibility. It can hover over a location |
| big difference when it comes to solving a crime or | | | | virtually in one place and be landed with nothing more |
| stopping a dangerous situation from spiraling out of | | | | needed than a small plot of ground to place it down on |
| control. So many times it is the helicopter pilot who can | | | | rather than a long landing field. The skill to be able to |
| take a team of highly skilled police or FBI officers right | | | | actually do these maneuvers with this precision flying |
| into the middle of a trouble situation with pinpoint | | | | machine take time and money to gain. |
| accuracy. And when those heroes of the police | | | | You will work very hard in pilot's school for helicopter |
| department can save a life because you got them | | | | pilots. And this specialization of pilot training is |
| there fast, there is no way to estimate how great you | | | | anywhere from 5-10 times more expensive than |
| will feel about your role in that important job. | | | | conventional pilots training. But if you can get the |
| Helicopter pilots can find great employment giving rides | | | | training under your belt and the experience to show |
| around the city during the holidays, flying busy | | | | you can handle a copter like pro, the employment |
| executives to high stakes business meetings from the | | | | opportunities are abundant and the money good for |
| top of skyscrapers, whisking rock stars away from | | | | you to have an exciting and diversified career flying |
| overly adoring fans or working for hospitals getting | | | | helicopters as your job and your passion. |
| remote patients to medical care quickly and saving | | | | |