#5 What requirements do I need to become a Helicopter Saw Pilot?

Kenny Keller explains what it takes to become a helicopter saw pilot, covering the flight hours and equipment experience required for the job.
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Yep. The saw world, it's just so small, right? It's very small. There's a few companies out here doing it. It's very. It's a unique operation and you got to have plenty of time to get into it. You got to have at least thousand hours and you got to have some experience with the hook, right. Some kind of load experience. Now I can't say that for a few other companies, they might different, but our company, we need thousand plus hours. A lot of it needs to be turbine time and we need some hook time. Once you have that and if you get a look at, we're going to throw the saw underneath you and we're going to put a dummy saw underneath you and see how you can do it. You might have a pile of time. You might have a pile of time with a hook, but slinging a saw is a little different than just slinging a tire around and maybe even a Bambi bucket. Couldn't even tell you how many hours I have. Well over, probably more. Doesn't matter anymore. It don't matter anymore because I don't even keep a logbook. Don't even care. Except for the required that you have. I have the required stuff logged out like 2000, some same thing. I don't log every hour anymore because that matter. I've had the jobs I wanted. Yeah. And to be honest with you, I don't even know where my log book is. Don't have a clue. It might be in my gun safe somewhere. But you get to that point in the utility world when you're just married to it, you just go to work. It's just work, you know, the hours, I'd love to give them away, you know, I just. But I can't. It's. It.










