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Ditto, apply at every service for flight training. If you are selected you will receive the best training anywhere. You will be marked as professional from day one. You will have head of the line privileges at almost any flying job. Army training is the best rotor wing in the world, more corporations are using helos, they will hire almost only ex-military, because where else does someone turbine helo PIC? I know the fixed wing brotherhood looks down on the helo drivers as lessor pilots, I mean they have never been to FL410, or done a M.78 descent. Hovering into a dark LZ on goggles is much more demanding of a pilot’s skills than shooting a Cat II approach. Someone has to figure out why uninformed management knuckleheads don't view a multi-crew Captain time in an advanced IFR helo like the H-60, H-46, H-53 or H-47 as not real flight time. However, PIC in a VFR only C-150 in the traffic pattern is the breakfast of champions for an airline career by those who set hard fixed wing limits and ignore helo time in total time. Why are most management and insurance company’s sooooo waaaayyyy out of touch with reality? Ops I am sorry I was management bashing again....would you be surprised if I voted USArmy flight school
Ditto, apply at every service for flight training. If you are selected you will receive the best training anywhere. You will be marked as professional from day one. You will have head of the line privileges at almost any flying job. Army training is the best rotor wing in the world, more corporations are using helos, they will hire almost only ex-military, because where else does someone turbine helo PIC? I know the fixed wing brotherhood looks down on the helo drivers as lessor pilots, I mean they have never been to FL410, or done a M.78 descent. Hovering into a dark LZ on goggles is much more demanding of a pilot’s skills than shooting a Cat II approach. Someone has to figure out why uninformed management knuckleheads don't view a multi-crew Captain time in an advanced IFR helo like the H-60, H-46, H-53 or H-47 as not real flight time. However, PIC in a VFR only C-150 in the traffic pattern is the breakfast of champions for an airline career by those who set hard fixed wing limits and ignore helo time in total time. Why are most management and insurance company’s sooooo waaaayyyy out of touch with reality? Ops I am sorry I was management bashing again.
I am not sure I said military trained pilots are superior. Civilian flight schools do not screen like the military and if you have the money you graduate. These schools turn out many pilots who may be better than their military counter part. The same can not be said for military training, not everyone can get into it. Not everyone can graduate. There are also the opportunities military pilots have to gain valuable flying experience that their civilian counterparts may not get. Like my self at 350 hrs TT sitting in the left seat of a 135,000 4 engine P-3 doing radar run ins on targets off the coast of Vietnam at night a 300' agl. I have hired almost 400 pilots in the last 14 years, 47 of these were military trained, and we had one training failure in this group. Of the other 350 or so pilots we had 42 failures. The mil fail rate of around 2% and civilian fail rate of over 10%. Please do not make this into peeing contest, it is only my observation and of course my prejudice based upon the most fantastic experience of my life. BTW What is one of the key attributes to getting a job at Fedex, UPS, etc.Military training doesn't equate to superiority in the sky. Sorry to burst your bubble. It's all about the time and dedication one put's into it. I've flown with excellent military trained pilots, and I've flown with some pretty damn scary ones. The exact same goes for civilian trained pilots.
That is truth, if you fly because you like to, it is the world's greatest job. my tag line says it all.Bottom line for me is: If all you've ever wanted to do is fly professionally, go for it. If you're in it for the money and prestige, go somewhere else.Good luck.TC