Helicopter Independent Contractor Pilot

We hire independent contractor Certified Flight Instructors with 300 hours total helicopter time (TT) and RHC Safety School to instruct in our flightschool.   These are the insurance requirements of the popular Pathfinder Indemnity Co. Ltd. to instruct.   This is a position for instruction and also working on our photo contracts so you will historically build helicopter time more rapidly than anywhere else.  That 300 hours total time (TT) helicopter will need to include 100 hours learning our photo contract and you will pay for this at $150 per hour.  This is specialized training to perform the contract that isn't taught at any other school but is popular with students from other schools that have less than 200 hours TT to transfer. We can and will hire you at 300 hours TT as an independent contractor instructor after this 100 hour as a transfer CFI.  Most operators require 1000 hours total time or more to carry passengers but this is photo and instruction.  If you have 200 hours and a CFI you will need to pay for 100 hours @ $150 per hour ($15,000) and this should take a month at the minimum,   This will train you to get from 200 hours TT to 300 hours TT and to get an independent contractor CFI position with us.  With an independent contractor position with us you might get to 1000 hours PIC in less than 12 months with the bulk of those hours in the warm months of spring, summer and fall.  As we mostly take photographs of boats and boats are used mostly in the summer expect to build many hours in the summer and less in the winter.  

If you have a commercial and 150 hours TT you'll need to pay for 150 hours and a CFI rating which we charge $5000 for at our school.   You can transfer from another school NOW and take advantages of our great rates:  $250/hour for the first 100 hours and $200//hour for the hours between 100 TT and 200 TT.  Between 200 hours TT and 300 hours TT it's $150 an hour.   Our roster of instructors split between students that completed all of their training with us and transfer students that came from other schools and went through our 100 hour program (feel free to contact them).  We guarantee to get you to 500 hours TT and most will get to 1000 TT of pilot in command time but this is largely dependent upon the flow of incoming students and we offer no time limit. Call School Manager Tommy McDermott at 561-346-2816 if you have any questions and a quick quote to get up to our insurance minimums.  Note: as a student you must weigh less than 240 LBS but all CFI’s MUST weigh 180 LBS or less.

The RHC Safety Course can be found at http://www.robinsonheli.com/  and click on "Training." There are links to schedule and an application.

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