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Answer is no. Becoming an airline pilot is a terrible route to becoming a helicopter pilot.

 

Go be a helicopter pilot.

 

If you can't afford it, put yourself into the career path that will help you afford it the fastest (which isn't being a pilot).

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Personally, I feel money isn't everything, especially if you hate your job.

Sure airline flying is flying, but is it really? Takeoffs and landings and the rest of the flight your FD coupled.

I think being an airline pilot would be a boring and repetitive job. So although we argue and make all these salary comparisons, at the end of the day you can't put a price on hapiness.

I'll never go to an airline because I enjoy helicopter flying way to much and I refuse to be a slave to the airline industry and the unions.

I once knew a skywest pilot who was so bored he would pray for bad weather so he would have something to do.
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Oh my...... Someone just cited the "Vietnam void". Dang. I would bet if every pilot who flew in Vietnam retired today, nobody would notice. I would say a huge majority didn't fly for a living after the war. And in 2015 most of those who did fly as a career are hopefully enjoying a post flying retirement. Sure there are those that kept on for a whole list of reasons, but saying a void we be created in 5-10years? No. If there was going to be a void created by retiring Vietnam pilots, for the most part that "void" window has come and gone if there was one that was even measurable.

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Awh don't say that. He is still out there working his butt off and we will all be sad to see Him go! :D

Gosh, thanks. Didn't think anybody noticed, but if you haven't- there is more than one of us. My estimation is that about 25% of my program are actual Vietnam vets or in that age cohort. Thirty years ago, that demographic was about 50% of the working pilots I knew. Math doesn't lie.

 

If I'm typical- I hate to go, I worked too hard to get onto the pilot's seat to leave casually.

At the same time, it's been 47 years, I don't want to push my luck, I want to quit a winner.

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