Property News · May 7, 2013

How do I become … a helicopter pilot


Qualifying means hundreds of hours training and laying out thousands of pounds, but the pay can reach £100,000Patrick Muirhead’s mellifluous tones were once recognisable to millions as he read the Radio 4 news bulletins and warned ships of gales in German Bight. Nowadays he has a more visceral interest in frisky south westerlies, for Muirhead, 44, is a helicopter pilot flying tourists around the Caribbean. Instead of a safe seat in Broadcasting House he operates from a cockpit where a moment’s inattention can invite all sorts of problems.”I’ve had doors flying open in flight, foreign objects hitting the rotors and I nearly killed my best friend while training when I got the helicopter into a spin,” he says. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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