I am a 23 year old, male, college student. My dream has always been to fly helicopters for the fire department. I always brushed it off thinking it would be impossible for a guy like me with no experience and no ins to get into something like that. I finally decided to just look into it. Any information would help and be appreciated.
first call and ask your local flight school or airport(about if they have helicopter lessons), then you would have to get your private helicopter license from your local flight school, then try and get hours and ratings for your piloting, once you get enough hours and the right ratings and license type you would have to do training for the fire department, to do that i also would ask your flight instructor how to go about this. also if you go for it, try looking into king schools of aviation, this will help you through some, http://www.kingschools.com/searchResults.asp?SKW=KSHELO&LinkTitle=Helicopter%20Supplements home page –> http://www.kingschools.com/
also you may find some help at http://www.sportys.com/ .
And one tip is if you do flight training, remain professional and show you can and give a good impression, flight training is like one big job interview and a big test, you have to show to your instructor that you are o.k. dont worry about it though, instructors are people and understand, once you go for your first ride or lesson, you will get a feel for it. (to go with what i said, to be a professional pilot you first have to be a private pilot and then build up hours then get new ratings and ultimatly upgrade from private pilot to a professional pilot, then you can do it for a living)
P.S. most small private or public airports give lessons.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:50 am
first call and ask your local flight school or airport(about if they have helicopter lessons), then you would have to get your private helicopter license from your local flight school, then try and get hours and ratings for your piloting, once you get enough hours and the right ratings and license type you would have to do training for the fire department, to do that i also would ask your flight instructor how to go about this. also if you go for it, try looking into king schools of aviation, this will help you through some, http://www.kingschools.com/searchResults.asp?SKW=KSHELO&LinkTitle=Helicopter%20Supplements home page –> http://www.kingschools.com/
also you may find some help at http://www.sportys.com/ .
And one tip is if you do flight training, remain professional and show you can and give a good impression, flight training is like one big job interview and a big test, you have to show to your instructor that you are o.k. dont worry about it though, instructors are people and understand, once you go for your first ride or lesson, you will get a feel for it. (to go with what i said, to be a professional pilot you first have to be a private pilot and then build up hours then get new ratings and ultimatly upgrade from private pilot to a professional pilot, then you can do it for a living)
P.S. most small private or public airports give lessons.
References :
if you want i would order this to just get info on piloting (but it is for private airplane piloting) you can still check it out http://www.sportys.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=19&Product_ID=4889