Training in New England

[dbrownie]

Hello;

I am looking for helicopter training in new england. I have fixed wing

ratings but I am looking to change careers.

Any help would be great.

Thanks
Dbrownie

 

[nwa_contrails]

C & R helicopters based in Nashua (ASH) does some training in R22s and R44s...

http://www.crhelicopters.com/

Hope that helps.

 

[Rollo Tomasi]

PYM has a couple helicopter schools. If that is any where near you, might be worth a try. Medflight and the State Police copters are also based there.

 

[deafsound]

Try East Coast Aero Club at BED. A rotor guy who was from FL said that it was the cheapest place in the US he could find.

 

[Goose Egg]

Little plug for CR: I took an heli-intro flight about a year ago. Good folks.

-Goose

 

[pilotguy143]

gooooooooooooose egg

 

[Goose Egg]

gooooooooooooose egg

Peace love, the glider.

-Goose

 

[NuGuy]

Hello;

I am looking for helicopter training in new england. I have fixed wing

ratings but I am looking to change careers.

Any help would be great.

Thanks
Dbrownie

Heyas DB,

As someone who has been there, I don't think you will EVER get any return on your investment if you are paying for your own ratings.

If you are financially secure and want to fly heilos for sh!ts and giggles, then fine, but if you are looking to change careers thinking the grass is greener on the other side, you will be very disappointed. If you get into it, make sure you get into a position where you can log some turbine time, which is the multi equivalent for heilos. Plan on working scut, CFI type jobs until at least 1000 hours heilo.

As far as operators are concerned, your 10k+ hours of airplane time might has well be zero. There is a strong anti-fixed wing bias in may RW operators, and you will always be refered to as a "Cessna pilot", and many take offense that you can always flip them off and go back flying FW.

There is always the the corporate side, where dual rated positions are not uncommon, HOWEVER, it has been my experience that most of those jobs are already filled internally, and any postings are "matter of record" only. It is far, far easier for operators to fill dual rated positions with a guy with a ton of heilo time and little FW time than the other way around. Say you have 5000 FW / 1000 RW and you are competing with a guy who has 5000 RW and 1000 FW, you will lose every time, because the time requirements for the heilo part are always more strict.

But hey, good luck with it. If you have any more specific questions, PM me. I've spent some time on both sides of the fence....

Nu

 

[navigator72]

Try MTM helicopters in SFM (Sanford, Maine)

 

[nosehair]

you will always be refered to as a "Cessna pilot",

...Well,...aren't you?...

 

[Goose Egg]

What's wrong with Cessnas?

-Goose

 

[nosehair]

What's wrong with Cessnas?

Nothin'. I love 'em. I'm just strokin' the NuGuy. He seems to pick up on the Rotor Head attitude towards "Fixed-Wing Drivers", and I was just playin' on that.

 

[Goose Egg]

Nothin'. I love 'em. I'm just strokin' the NuGuy. He seems to pick up on the Rotor Head attitude towards "Fixed-Wing Drivers", and I was just playin' on that.

Then by all means, proceed!

 

[GEXDriver]

C&R has a pretty good reputation up here, although none of our helo guys have gone there.