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What do you want to do with your license? Fly for fun or get paid? Do you want to do it as a career or side gig? How much money do you have/planned to spend?
Well if it is as a hobby I doubt you will need or want your commercial license.
Just started with private and go from there.
When flight training the best thing you can do is to fly as much as your time and finances allow. If you fly once a week you spend the first 20 minutes in the helicopter remembering what you forgot and at 250 an hour it adds up
I knew a guy that was getting his helicopter license; he went out and bought a helicopter to take his training in and leased it back to the flight school. It was a basic Bell 47 similar to this one here;
Good plan until it needs an engine , annual, and an unforeseen AD crops up....
Yes there is risk involved. The guy I knew was an A&P so that might have been a reason he bought is helicopter.
If you look at helicopter rentals you are already paying for the new engine, annuals and any unexpected problems an hour at a time PLUS a profit margin to the owner.
The bell I linked to is 79,000 dollars and has a low time engine.
Yes there is risk involved. The guy I knew was an A&P so that might have been a reason he bought is helicopter.
If you look at helicopter rentals you are already paying for the new engine, annuals and any unexpected problems an hour at a time PLUS a profit margin to the owner.
The bell I linked to is 79,000 dollars and has a low time engine.
I would say your friend being an mechanic was the only way that worked. A new engine is an easy 10k before labor.
What do you want to do with your license? Fly for fun or get paid? Do you want to do it as a career or side gig? How much money do you have/planned to spend?
Doing it for fun. I'll just say this, I have the money.
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