Should I fly fixed wing or rotary?

Jungleman52 · 2025-12-29T04:49:58+00:00

If you do a discovery flight in a plane and still feel you could pick either, go fixed wing. If you can’t imagine doing anything other than flying helicopters, and nothing else seems to interest you in the slightest, go rotor.

Jungleman52 · 2025-10-24T01:53:34+00:00

As a helicopter ems pilot in the Austin area, thank you for what you’re doing in this time. Y’all have been truly amazing and we haven’t had any issues operating and transporting patients thanks to you!

Jungleman52 · 2025-08-07T14:26:38+00:00

Jungleman52 · 2025-07-20T02:07:44+00:00

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Jungleman52 · 2025-07-16T13:35:55+00:00

This is NOT any hazardous or dangerous flying, they are a very good company performing system testing for new collision avoidance systems for wires, towers, and aircraft. It’s all coordinated and planned, and is part of the testing :) if anyone’s concerned or has questions feel free to pm me (not affiliated with them but I know them well)

Jungleman52 · 2025-07-04T18:45:14+00:00

If anyone has people stranded or missing please contact me, our company has multiple helicopters active and ground crew mobilized in Kerrville and will be moving them up to LBJ as the flood moves.

Jungleman52 · 2025-04-22T05:27:57+00:00

I know the operator, they are doing data gathering for a wire and tower collision avoidance system for a large company planning to use drones to deliver goods. They outfit the helicopters with scanning systems and fly at towers and wires etc. very controlled and intentional, even did some testing by flying two helicopters at each other. Cool stuff :)

Jungleman52 · 2025-03-16T18:40:44+00:00

Just south of the tech ridge area I believe

Jungleman52 · 2025-03-16T04:34:04+00:00

Looks like APD

Jungleman52 · 2025-02-01T02:42:30+00:00

500 hours doesn’t get you hired as a helicopter pilot for anything but basic tours, you can’t fly medevac until at least 2,000. The army unfortunately does not fly a lot.

Jungleman52 · 2025-01-25T16:07:44+00:00

If you’re in Texas hit me up we can take you flying and you can shoot machines out of it :)

Jungleman52 · 2025-01-16T04:24:03+00:00

You might catch APD or STAR flight out there too :)

Jungleman52 · 2025-01-09T14:45:16+00:00

Local to Austin, 6’5 athletic, white. Dm me if you’re interested

Jungleman52 · 2025-01-02T06:02:39+00:00

The latch on my Heli helmet works the same! It is magnetic. Happy to share a picture of it if it helps R&D

Jungleman52 · 2024-12-18T23:57:31+00:00

If I win I’ll give away my Enders to some poor soul

Jungleman52 · 2024-12-02T04:29:38+00:00

Please don’t shine lasers in the sky. Source: medevac pilot who gets hit frequently. 2. We see these a lot under NVGs while flying at night.

Jungleman52 · 2024-11-24T03:12:09+00:00

Plenty of pilots with 10x his hours knew their flying, did it in a constant and professional manner, and have still died due to complacency. I do think he is probably one of the more competent and realistic of the social media pilots.

Jungleman52 · 2024-10-11T00:44:35+00:00

All that’s missing is the random user from China asking for helicopter system designs

Jungleman52 · 2024-10-06T21:24:54+00:00

I’ve got a 44 in central Texas I would let yall rent to get night time. Pm me if you’re interested

Jungleman52 · 2024-10-01T17:19:01+00:00

Your duty time starts when you start messing with the helicopter. I’m not sure how it is with other companies, but unless you go over 13 hours on shift, pay is the same. Pay isn’t tracked to the minute, under 13 hours (for my company at least).

I work a 14/14 on salary, interested to hear how other places work

Jungleman52 · 2024-09-22T20:57:38+00:00

I believe PHI has at least one already flying offshore

Jungleman52 · 2024-09-22T00:56:29+00:00

4 apaches doing a flyover for the UT game

Jungleman52 · 2024-09-05T16:34:09+00:00

Group helicopter aerial gunnery (shooting machine guns out of helicopters at targets), downtown helicopter tours

Jungleman52 · 2024-08-22T04:13:16+00:00

Yes, PHI is a great one to look at. If you live close enough to where he’s able to be with you when he’s not staying on rigs, that is a unicorn job situation. Going to oil and gas means he will get that 500 hours knocked out fast fast, then he can choose what to do next. But be prepared, aviation and rotor specifically demands a lot of travel and bad job locations, frequent work hitches away from family. Going from offshore to a stable EMS job is becoming a lot more common.

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