Wie werde ich Hubschrauberpilot?

As a hobby or a profession? Hobby has already been explained, so here a little to professional aviation.

How are you? Like all other pilots:

1. Select a flight school (ATO) which may also perform helicopter training. A list is available at the Federal Aviation Office, LBA, under

http://www.lba.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/L/L1/Liste_ATO.html

Two. Information about theory, practice, costs and conditions

3. Bring required documents (to see the part-FCL of EASA (EU Regulation 1178/2011) and inform you about the LBA or the flight school, which national regulations exist).

It’s like the surface.

4. Start and complete training

Five. Find a job if you don’t just want to be on the move

Problems:

(a) Helicopter training for professional pilots is not cheap and there are very much fewer companies (e.g. lottery services, inspection flights of power and gas lines) in DE than for instance aeroplanes.

The good: With the EASA license you can fly anywhere in Europe, for example in Scotland or Norway in the oil business.

b) Collect flight hours and receive rating. A type rating is valid for only 12 months, then it must be renewed by a check and a theory check. How do you do this and how do you collect flight hours?

Private? Not impossible, but expensive.

(c) Many companies only take “Ready Entries”, i.e. pilots with proof of hours (usually at least 500 hours); for professional aviation, they must have been flown to turbine helicopters.

Since there are no companies that offer or even prefinance an analogue area, there are realistically only two ways to get and receive a license:

– Helicopter pilot with the police. Disadvantage: You have to be a cop and can only apply from the service.

– Helicopter pilot at the Bundeswehr: Here you can apply as a civilian pedestrian directly for the aviation service. Disadvantages: minimum requirement period 16 years (for suitability you can also fly to retirement). And also possible warfares are not everyone’s business.

Otherwise I don’t think of anything. Even the rescue services such as ADAC and DRF do not form pilots, but can only carry out a type rating as TRTOs, but for which, in addition to the flight hours mentioned, stop tests also belong (the ADAC is carried out by DLR, by the way).