| consider learning how to fly with a real helicopter, you | | | | helicopter in an instant. After a short briefing at the |
| have 2 options: it is either enrolling for a helicopter | | | | ground, the instructor will point the helicopter you will fly. |
| training course or taking up helicopter lesson. While the | | | | You and your instructor will board the helicopter and |
| terms used may be quite similar and the medium is | | | | off you go. The instructor will let you hold the controls |
| also similar, the approach is entirely different. And if | | | | with him assisting you all throughout the process. What |
| you are thinking of choosing the former over the latter, | | | | you have learned at the ground briefing together with |
| then you could simply be surprised with the cost of the | | | | the assistance of your instructor will let you fly a |
| whole helicopter training course. While choosing the | | | | helicopter. |
| latter would only cost a couple of hundred dollars. | | | | The quickest helicopter lesson would take for 20 |
| The usual helicopter training course could cost at | | | | minute whole some lesson would let you fly a |
| around $20,000 to $45,000. This would last depending | | | | helicopter for several hours. The longer you hold the |
| on your availability. Usually, it would be over between | | | | controls; the longer deeper skill you gain. It is compete |
| 3-7 months with a 5-day a week training. The cost | | | | hands on that would let you soaring and flying with |
| would payoff after you have finished the course and | | | | birds. |
| acquiring the license. You can either have a Private | | | | Taking helicopter lesson first before deciding to enroll in |
| License or a Commercial Helicopter License where | | | | a helicopter flight school is very advisable. The aspiring |
| you can fly a helicopter and make it a career. | | | | helicopter pilot would be able to evaluate if he or she is |
| With the cost and the duration of the training, it might | | | | in to the experience of flying a helicopter. |
| not be so practical if you only would want to try out | | | | Taking a helicopter lesson is an experience of a |
| the experience of flying a helicopter. And, it would not | | | | lifetime. You may not be able to legally fly a helicopter |
| also be so practical if you don’t have any plans | | | | or find a job as a helicopter pilot; you can say to |
| of becoming a helicopter pilot. | | | | yourself that you have once flown a helicopter on |
| With these comes the availability of helicopter lessons. | | | | your own. |
| Helicopter lessons will teach you how to fly a | | | | |