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Commercial Pilot Cost Hello, I'm Kenny Keller, the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School and author of the Amazon bestseller, Helicopter Check-Ride. Today I want to talk about the cost to become a commercial helicopter pilot. We get this question a lot, so it really depends on many different factors on what it's going to take and what it's going to cost to get to commercial helicopter pilot. Which helicopter you choose to fly, whether you're flying the cheaper models like an R22, where the cost is low per hour, or you could be up in a turbine model, spending over $1,000 an hour. A lot of it depends on which aircraft you're going to be flying, and another big one is where in the world that you live. How close are you to the airport that you want to fly at? Maybe you've got an airport somewhere nearby that's has a Helicopter Training School and you won't have to travel much. Maybe you're going to have to travel quite a ways for your helicopter training lessons. Maybe you're going to have hotel involved, driving time, fuel, wear and tear on your vehicle, all these things play in the total cost of what it's going to cost to become a Commercial Helicopter Pilot. How willing you are to apply yourself is another big one. The Helicopter Ground School is part of the cost, the aircraft time, your dual instruction, your study time on your own, these all play into what it's going to cost you to get to be a commercial helicopter pilot. You're going to have 150 hours of flight experience, you're going to have dual time and ground time for your private pilot license, and then you're also going to have more dual instruction and more dual ground time for your helicopter commercial pilot license. During that dual time, you're going to be paying for the Helicopter and for the instructor, and then you're also going to have a certain amount of solo time, where you're going to be in the aircraft alone, so there's the difference in between paying for just the solo time, and paying for the dual time in the aircraft. I'm going to give you some approximate figures on low end to high end. If you have 150 hours, let's say you got a really good deal on an aircraft at $200 an hour, that's pretty low. You might find that, but that's going to be about as low as you're going to get, in that general vicinity. If you had 150 hours at $200 an hour, right there's $30,000. Let's say you had 50 hours of dual flight time with an instructor at $30.00 per hour, that's $1,500, and $30 per hour, that's kind of the low end of what an instructor is going to cost. 50 hours of ground instruction at $30 per hour, there's $1,500. Books, medical certificate, examiner fee, travel, et cetera, I just threw a number out there of $1,500. Could be more, could be less, but that's a round number you could use for the extra stuff that you're going to definitely be spending money on, so there's $34,500, on the low end of things. Let's go to a higher cost aircraft and instructor. Let's say you're renting a helicopter at $400, an instructor at $60 an hour, 150 hours at $400 an hour, there's $60,000, just for aircraft time. Then let's talk about the 50 hours of flight dual, which you may need more, you may need less, but let's use 50 hours at $60 an hour, which there are instructors that charge that, there are instructors that charge more than that. The 50 hours at $60 an hour, there's $3,000. Let's add 50 hours of ground school at $60 an hour, there's another $3,000, there again, there's $1,500 in extra stuff; fees, books, whatever the case may be, and there's a grand total of $67,500. There's the difference between low end and high end of $34,500, which would be cheap. $67,500, that's a pretty good ballpark figure, then if you're going to go for professional pilot, and you're going to add CFI onto that, that's even more money that you're going to spend. Instrument rating, instrument instructor, that's more money on top of that that you could also spend going for the professional pilot program. Are there ways to save money? Yes there are. News reporting is an example. I had a student, years ago, that would fly to California and go along on news reporting for a reduced rate to build time for his commercial, for I think, around $125 an hour. There's one way to save money. Helicopter ferry flights, if you can get in a ferry flight where somebody's moving an aircraft from point A to point B, you get to go along for a discounted rate, that's another way to save money. When I did it, the company I was training with had a pipeline patrol. Commercial Pilot Cost

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