Paul_J
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Originally posted by Colin
My transport to work
Pilots are very experienced mind, I dont fancy having a go myself!!
Yes but i'd trust that, same as i'd trust a police chopper etc.
These will have been maintained daily / daily checked and kept in fully safe working order.
I just think having a personal helicopter to yourself, it's asking for trouble as they need rebuilds every 250-400 hours or so, but a cam belt SHOULD last 60k on most cars, but not all do! in same way the heli should be fine being rebuilt every 250 hours but may not be...
a heli copter that's got a professional team maintaining / checking it daily before flight will probably never crash through mechanical failure.
A person with their own heli  hmm...
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John
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The helicopter is built from parts that are far far better thana cars parts.
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nik
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All Helicopters will be maintained ffs unless you have a death wish  99% will be on a lease back scheme where you buy it, and let a company maintain/lease out your craft while your not using it. Most decent airfields will have a service like this. The kit Helis are also very good if you buy the right kit, they have to pass very a strict 'mot' - I don't think your find many people who'' lease or buy a chopper and not bother/have the funds to maintain it properly!
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Calum
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Originally posted by Timbaland
How much cheaper?
I don't have the exact figures to hand. But a friend of mine is out in America at the moment on a 6 week training course to get his fixed wing PPL.
I think it worked out to be around a third cheaper than in the UK, and that includes accomodation whilst he is out there.
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Cosmo
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Their was that 'A Chopper was born' programme on one of the sky channels a while back where he built a kit heli. Didnt seem majorly hard and the safety checks they go through is huge.
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Calum
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Don't think I could trust my self to fly a helicopter I had built in the garage.
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Timbaland
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Originally posted by complex_maze
Don't think I could trust my self to fly a helicopter I had built in the garage.
I do tbh. At least if you know you've tightened everything right and not skipped any corners.
Basically doing it yourself is knowing your doing it 100% right and the 'MOT' is double checking what you done.
If you got balls to fly your own, You got balls to build your own.
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Mertin
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Il be flyin in a chopper tomorrow, home time!
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nik
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Yeah nothing wrong with home builds, no stone is left unturned - they check controls, navigation units, collective/cyclic controls etc etc so it's 100% safe and won't fall apart on it's first run, might do on the 2nd though
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John
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Is this for flying the drugs in?
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by John
Is this for flying the drugs in?
I have resisted posting this for 3 pages waiting to see who'd be first
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Robbo
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I will be doing this one day, its one of my goals in life!!!
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sand-eel
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Originally posted by Robbo
I will be doing this one day, its one of my goals in life!!!
is that flying choppers or importing drugs
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Robbo
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Oops, choppers
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ed
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I@m doing my fixed wing PPL at the moment. Quite interested in doing my PPL(H) but I would rather do night flying and get an instrument rating on a fixed with aircraft before 
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Robbo
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Probably a stupid question but do you get any concessions from heli licence if you have a pilots licence?
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ed
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Also, all you people saying you'll instantly die if your heli engine fails are slightly mis-informed. AIn a training exercise your instructor will actually turn the engine off suddenly and you have to land the thing somewhere - you pitch your prop blades so that they slow your decent.
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ed
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Originally posted by Robbo
Probably a stupid question but do you get any concessions from heli licence if you have a pilots licence?
You do a conversion course rather than an ab inito. So I think you don't do some parts of the ground school stuff like radio, air law and weather.
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Robbo
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Thats what I wondered... always fancied doing both tbh 
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baza31
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we need the A team to sort out this argument
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ed
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Originally posted by nik
Yeah nothing wrong with home builds, no stone is left unturned - they check controls, navigation units, collective/cyclic controls etc etc so it's 100% safe and won't fall apart on it's first run, might do on the 2nd though
They come and check every single thing you do throughout the build to. It all needs to be signed off. Every little bit down to any gluing or fibreglass work you do. The good thing about building your own aircraft is after yo have built it you are considered qualified enough to maintain it and the maintainence costs for aircraft are massive. But this is the reason why aircraft don't depreciate and you can buy things built in the 70's for the same price as something built last week...
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Dean_W
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Thing is with a helicopter, no matter what it's made of.............if that engine goes, it can't glide, it hasn't got another one.
Your basically a brick
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Timbaland
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Originally posted by Dean_W
Your basically a prick
Woahhhh, Easy tiger...
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ed
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Originally posted by Dean_W
Thing is with a helicopter, no matter what it's made of.............if that engine goes, it can't glide, it hasn't got another one.
Your basically a brick
It can glide though. In an exercise you do the instructor will shut the engine down and you have to land it.
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Dean_W
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Originally posted by ed
Your basically a brick
It can glide though. In an exercise you do the instructor will shut the engine down and you have to land it.
 Don't you mean controlled crash the fucker?
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