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RayConant.com "A PILOT WORK EXPERIENCE COURSE" - REVIEW AND RENEW FOR WORKING PILOTS - NEED-TO-KNOW FOR LONG-TERM SUCCESS - LOOK THROUGH THE COURSE HERE HELICOPTER PILOTS AT WORK
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AN EXAMPLE OF EXPERIENCED PILOT WORK: Speakers & Full Screen
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To Fly is Human - To Hover is Divine
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OPEN LETTER TO HELICOPTER OPERATORS - PILOTS - STUDENTS
Dear Friends;
As many of you are already aware, finding adequately experienced pilots to meet current industry demands is a growing problem. And this proficiency gap between available pilots and expanding talent requirements looks to be widening. Even higher time pilots are failing in critical areas of proficiency.
The purpose of this website is to help narrow this gap by sharing accumulated wisdom from the experience of many pilots over many years. This is operations knowledge not required to be taught in flight schools, not practical to cover by chief pilots, and not yet learned by experience. Here is a resource for new or under-experienced pilots to grow, for good pilots to function even better, and to assist employers in developing a top performing pilot staff. A glance through the Course will demonstrate this.
Obviously, the next best thing to actual log book pilot experience (with its measure of risky trial-and-error) would be a comprehensive ground course. This would be a way to gain experience (operations knowledge) without risk. This would be a course that confronts far more than helicopter damage control.
Lack of knowledge and self-discipline promote bad operations habits that result in negative consequences.
Chief pilots and operations managers readily admit that a major portion of the talent required by any pilot to function professionally in such a wide area of responsibility lies outside his/her basic ability to handle the controls. A comprehensive Ground Course could deal with hundreds of pilot shortcomings.
My contribution has been to draw on five decades of piloting, add material from eminently qualified pilots and industry specialists, publish a 190 page Book/Manual. and offer an in-depth helicopter pilot operations Course on this website. The Manual is required. A Certificate Of Proficiency is offered.
This entire Helicopter Pilot Commercial Operations Course can be viewed and/or printed from this website. Course content is influenced by contributions from chief pilots, operations managers, high time pilots, maintenance managers and engineers, employers, aviation lawyers, aviation insurance brokers, clients, unofficial encouragement from Transport Canada, and even stay-at-home moms. In other words, content covers far more than my ideas, opinions and experiences only.
The Course and Manual include immersion into up-close and personal operations experiences that put pilots into the heat of the action. Such topics as liability, reputation, public relations, work procedures and organizational concerns are all covered in the Course. Matters relating to safety, efficiency, loyalty and a self-disciplined attitude get front row attention. See Navigation Bar at top of page and select......
"EXPERIENCE WITHOUT RISK" for a list of the topics covered.
"FREE 20 HOUR ONLINE COURSE" View and/or Print (drop-down tab). Run off a copy if you like (25 pages). Look over some sample answered questions. This Course is comprehensive - it's not training to minimum standard. It's not a quickie multiple choice - it requires attention. It's totally practical - all content is oriented toward the working pilot. 20 hours is the expected time to complete, but take all the time you want. The manual is purchased from this website at $25 shipped anywhere in Canada, foreign shipments somewhat more. See quantity price schedule at the "ORDER THE BOOK/MANUAL" drop-tab.
Comments, criticisms, encouragements, and especially additional content welcomed by email or phone call.
Sincerely................Ray Conant
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THE BOOK/MANUAL 190 pages color illustrated
THE TITLE COULD JUST AS WELL HAVE BEEN:
"HELICOPTER FLYING FOR SERIOUS PILOTS ONLY"
OR HELICOPTER FLYING - A TEXT BOOK FOR WHAT'S NOT IN TEXT BOOKS
OR HELICOPTER FLYING - PILOT EXPERIENCE WITHOUT RISK
OR HELICOPTER FLYING - A REALISTIC EXPOSURE TO THE LIFE AND WORK
THE AUTHOR has 14,000 hours of helicopter piloting experience, plus 2,000 hours on airplanes. Rotary wing includes 2,000 hours of ab initio / recurrent / mountain instructing, chief pilot, mountain flying to 19,000 feet, long lining, logging, helicopter skiing, mineral and oil exploration, seismic work, fire fighting, construction, geological survey, glacier research, arctic summer and winter and lots of search and rescue.
Background from way back: www.authoraviationhistory.weebly.com
