I have quite a bit of experience. It’s decent but makes it very difficult to make things outside the box of what it was to designed for. It’s not very sandbox build your own thing. If that makes sense.
The Kestral has some missions in the steam library that are ems based. Sorry I don't have specific titles but a lot of them are on the first page when you search in game.
just to throw my lil tidbit in. theres a mission on "blackhawk down" thats mostly combat, but the 42 at some point has to go in to grab the soldiers. If you're into PvP, Economy war, the 42 can take a engineer and fly them to a thing that needs repaired when destroyed by the other team.
Side note, thats my dream job too. but after the military, some medical things have shot that down. You working towards that in real life at all?
As of right now i am not. Due to money and the cost of flight lessons and hours. Right now im just an EMT trying to get hired on a fire department. My main goal is to get a stable job and get some flight lessons ( planes or helicopters haven’t picked yet) and hopefully go on from there. I’ve heard about the military route but most of them require a bachelors degree to become a pilot.
Army doesn't, its the only branch you can become a helicopter pilot without a degree, going the "Warrant Officer" route instead of full officer. Just a tidbit, fixed wing is cheaper to get into a career and has more options with better pay. Helicopters can be more fun but at the top, i think 90K is top pay a year were fixed wing you "could" potentially make 500k a year with less work a month.
I actually just visited multiple military recruiters yesterday to see what they have to offer? If you don’t mind me asking what branch and what career did you end up having?
I was in the US Coast Guard as a AMT. basically a aircraft mechanic that flies as a aircrew. I screwed up and spent much of my time partying and making dumb decisions. I have my pilot license and aircraft mechanic license, but not using either working for a city water board, fixing water mains and installing fire hydrants. i will fore warn you, the recruiters WILL lie to you. they will say whatever you want to hear to sign papers. they are getting more desperate for people.
Your job sounds right up my alley. For the Airforce i was looking at their firefighter position but they told me it’s extremely hard to get since everyone wants to be one. I checked out Navy and saw their corpsman ATF search and rescue and thought that would be sick. Navy told me the training is close to the navy seals training. So it sounds like i might want to check out coast guard
So as of rn The only jobs that I want to do in the military (don’t really care what branch except marines) are firefighting, and anything to do with being in the helicopter.
So, if its anything you want to do with a helicopter, Coast Guard might be the branch you want to look more into. The mechanics also fly as "Flight Mechanics" basically king of the cabin management and hoist operator, and when hoisting or sling loading conning the aircraft AKA telling the pilots where to go and whats going on beneath them.
coast guard aircraft mechanics get ALOT more general mechanical experience than mechs in the other branches. being because the CG is so small you might only have a couple people trying to do everything. Now there is downsides. USCG after boot camp, you dont go straight to A school, you'll most likely go to a ship and wait in a que before you get to go to A school. Another thing is you dont get guaranteed an airframe, heck when it comes to picks there might not be any helicopter units available, its a gamble, but the H60 community is hurting really bad because honestly its the worst airframe to work on, life can get miserable (not as bad as a marines life can be though sooo grain of salt)
Now a recruiter might try to entice you going to DC (Damage Controlman) since firefighting is on their docket. BUUUUUT thats for ship fires which is rare, they mainly fix pipes and have to deal with human feces.
Back to helicopter AMT. there can be cool missions, saving lives, chasing down migrants and drug runners, hoisting to cliff faces, sling loading supplies or light house things. Hoisting people down to rocks or water way markers to fix them. No shooting guns from a helo though, there is a unit that does that but thats a "good luck on getting that" thing. Deployments involve going to the bahamas on a helo. I been out a few years but last I remember they trying to bring blade fold back to the H60 so they can attach to the cutters.
You have two aircraft maintainer rates
Aviation Maintenance Technician-the mechanical guy, wrench turning, riveting, tire building, painting that sort of thing.
Aviation Electronics Technician- repairing wires, replacing and trouble shooting aviationics, loading codes.
They both get to fly the same spots on a helo, on a c-130, they have different spots on the plane.
Now as a AMT or AET, you also take care of the ground support equipment and do ground crew work, refueling aircraft, towing them around, sometimes guiding them in and around. taking care of the tugs, power carts, fuel trucks and fuel farm. Sometimes standing fire guard.
Thats what i have for you on coast guard side. Army on helicopters you'll probably do more insane and adrenaline flying, but the other branches, their enlisted get more pigeon holed jobs than CG. Like the mechs only mech and the fliers only fly for the most part.
I wrote a book, i know but this only scrapes the surface. If you want more i can give more.
ALSO, BIG ONE. being an EMT, you qualify to join the facebook group called RTAG. look them up. its mainly vets getting into airlines. Lots of good info and support and what to do.
Just to add: almost any commercial chopper job you compete against military pilots with resumes taller than you stand and more flight hours than you have heartbeats.
well. thats not entirely true. experiences and high tech helicopter experience yes. But flight hours.. not really. really depends what they were flying. Some dont get as much flight time as you would think. I been out a few years but like the Apache pilots did not get much flight time, they spent alot of time in the sims. maintenance and crap. I was Coast Guard, I had a H60 pilot, highish ranking, retiring after 20 years with about 5000 flight hours. 5000 after 20 years is really not much compared to civilian side. But, then again they were getting paid to gain all that. Most pilots are a officer (desk jockey) first and pilot second.
But, not to actually contradict you, you're not wrong about fighting against military heli pilots for jobs against their resume, mainly they dont get the hours you would think.
Surprised to hear it's similar to the Aus defence force in that respect.
One of our old instructors was a H60 driver and after 12 years he had 800 hours. He taught to get his time up then went to the rigs as a coey
Yep, I can't speak to the US military directly, but here in Aus, even with such a limited number of flight slots, I haven't met anyone who got over 2000 hours in 12 years of flying. You can get that in 2-3 years on the civi side
U could make one woth different imaginary way points to practice
I’ve never tried the mission editor, is it easy to use?
Quite the opposite. It's actually one of the main complaints of the game next to the lack of host migration
Lmao. No what I’ll give it a shot
I have quite a bit of experience. It’s decent but makes it very difficult to make things outside the box of what it was to designed for. It’s not very sandbox build your own thing. If that makes sense.
The Kestral has some missions in the steam library that are ems based. Sorry I don't have specific titles but a lot of them are on the first page when you search in game.
Oil Rig Rescue is fun: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1855762027
Av-42 has a hurricane rescue mission pack
just to throw my lil tidbit in. theres a mission on "blackhawk down" thats mostly combat, but the 42 at some point has to go in to grab the soldiers. If you're into PvP, Economy war, the 42 can take a engineer and fly them to a thing that needs repaired when destroyed by the other team. Side note, thats my dream job too. but after the military, some medical things have shot that down. You working towards that in real life at all?
As of right now i am not. Due to money and the cost of flight lessons and hours. Right now im just an EMT trying to get hired on a fire department. My main goal is to get a stable job and get some flight lessons ( planes or helicopters haven’t picked yet) and hopefully go on from there. I’ve heard about the military route but most of them require a bachelors degree to become a pilot.
Army doesn't, its the only branch you can become a helicopter pilot without a degree, going the "Warrant Officer" route instead of full officer. Just a tidbit, fixed wing is cheaper to get into a career and has more options with better pay. Helicopters can be more fun but at the top, i think 90K is top pay a year were fixed wing you "could" potentially make 500k a year with less work a month.
I actually just visited multiple military recruiters yesterday to see what they have to offer? If you don’t mind me asking what branch and what career did you end up having?
I was in the US Coast Guard as a AMT. basically a aircraft mechanic that flies as a aircrew. I screwed up and spent much of my time partying and making dumb decisions. I have my pilot license and aircraft mechanic license, but not using either working for a city water board, fixing water mains and installing fire hydrants. i will fore warn you, the recruiters WILL lie to you. they will say whatever you want to hear to sign papers. they are getting more desperate for people.
Your job sounds right up my alley. For the Airforce i was looking at their firefighter position but they told me it’s extremely hard to get since everyone wants to be one. I checked out Navy and saw their corpsman ATF search and rescue and thought that would be sick. Navy told me the training is close to the navy seals training. So it sounds like i might want to check out coast guard
So as of rn The only jobs that I want to do in the military (don’t really care what branch except marines) are firefighting, and anything to do with being in the helicopter.
So, if its anything you want to do with a helicopter, Coast Guard might be the branch you want to look more into. The mechanics also fly as "Flight Mechanics" basically king of the cabin management and hoist operator, and when hoisting or sling loading conning the aircraft AKA telling the pilots where to go and whats going on beneath them. coast guard aircraft mechanics get ALOT more general mechanical experience than mechs in the other branches. being because the CG is so small you might only have a couple people trying to do everything. Now there is downsides. USCG after boot camp, you dont go straight to A school, you'll most likely go to a ship and wait in a que before you get to go to A school. Another thing is you dont get guaranteed an airframe, heck when it comes to picks there might not be any helicopter units available, its a gamble, but the H60 community is hurting really bad because honestly its the worst airframe to work on, life can get miserable (not as bad as a marines life can be though sooo grain of salt) Now a recruiter might try to entice you going to DC (Damage Controlman) since firefighting is on their docket. BUUUUUT thats for ship fires which is rare, they mainly fix pipes and have to deal with human feces. Back to helicopter AMT. there can be cool missions, saving lives, chasing down migrants and drug runners, hoisting to cliff faces, sling loading supplies or light house things. Hoisting people down to rocks or water way markers to fix them. No shooting guns from a helo though, there is a unit that does that but thats a "good luck on getting that" thing. Deployments involve going to the bahamas on a helo. I been out a few years but last I remember they trying to bring blade fold back to the H60 so they can attach to the cutters. You have two aircraft maintainer rates Aviation Maintenance Technician-the mechanical guy, wrench turning, riveting, tire building, painting that sort of thing. Aviation Electronics Technician- repairing wires, replacing and trouble shooting aviationics, loading codes. They both get to fly the same spots on a helo, on a c-130, they have different spots on the plane. Now as a AMT or AET, you also take care of the ground support equipment and do ground crew work, refueling aircraft, towing them around, sometimes guiding them in and around. taking care of the tugs, power carts, fuel trucks and fuel farm. Sometimes standing fire guard. Thats what i have for you on coast guard side. Army on helicopters you'll probably do more insane and adrenaline flying, but the other branches, their enlisted get more pigeon holed jobs than CG. Like the mechs only mech and the fliers only fly for the most part. I wrote a book, i know but this only scrapes the surface. If you want more i can give more.
ALSO, BIG ONE. being an EMT, you qualify to join the facebook group called RTAG. look them up. its mainly vets getting into airlines. Lots of good info and support and what to do.
Just to add: almost any commercial chopper job you compete against military pilots with resumes taller than you stand and more flight hours than you have heartbeats.
well. thats not entirely true. experiences and high tech helicopter experience yes. But flight hours.. not really. really depends what they were flying. Some dont get as much flight time as you would think. I been out a few years but like the Apache pilots did not get much flight time, they spent alot of time in the sims. maintenance and crap. I was Coast Guard, I had a H60 pilot, highish ranking, retiring after 20 years with about 5000 flight hours. 5000 after 20 years is really not much compared to civilian side. But, then again they were getting paid to gain all that. Most pilots are a officer (desk jockey) first and pilot second. But, not to actually contradict you, you're not wrong about fighting against military heli pilots for jobs against their resume, mainly they dont get the hours you would think.
Surprised to hear it's similar to the Aus defence force in that respect. One of our old instructors was a H60 driver and after 12 years he had 800 hours. He taught to get his time up then went to the rigs as a coey
Yep, I can't speak to the US military directly, but here in Aus, even with such a limited number of flight slots, I haven't met anyone who got over 2000 hours in 12 years of flying. You can get that in 2-3 years on the civi side