BayCopters
Professional Helicopter flight training in Maryland.

Interested in a career in helicopter aviation? Please call 561-346-2816

$200 PER HOUR R22 HELICOPTER TIME BARGAIN and we are the only company in the WORLD that will guarantee you a job:  We'll make you professional helicopter pilot while keeping your current job!  We operate a fleet of helicopters for training and photography and like other schools our insurance requires 300 hours helicopter time and an instructor's rating to fly for us. We train you to work for us and offer a job to all graduates, including transfer students.  Here's the prices:  For $60,000 we'll  take you from zero to 300 hours and your commercial helicopter license as you pay for the first 100 hours at $250/hr, the second 100 hours at $200/hr and the final 100 hours at $150/hr and this $200 average is the cheapest in the world.   $25,000 for the first 100 hours, $20,000 for hours 100 through 200 and $15,000 for hours 200 through 300.   credit application  Add the one-on-one instructors rating (CFI) for $5000 and we'll  give you a job like we have to every graduate since January 1986.  We have the same owner and manager and have been in seamless operation since our founding over 20 years ago with a fleet of properly maintained helicopters.  You can pay by cash or credit:

1.  If you have $65,000 available in your checking account call us to enroll at 561-346-2816 and prepare to make payments in four phases.  You are enrolled!

2.  If you have good income and credit  but don't have $65,000 saved up for tuition (but have good credit and a low debt to income ratio) click on this credit application credit application but let us give you some tips:  About 1% get approved for the full amount and 99% will get a "counter offer" of a lesser amount of financing (perhaps $30,000, perhaps $15,000). You need to stack up co-borrowers so that the bank is comfortable lending you the money with your current income as these are income based loans.  You can save time by starting with a co-borrower with the option to have a second or third person as an additional co-borrower (Dad? Mom? Grandparents?).  Who else wants to see you become a helicopter pilot?

Helicopter training is one of the MOST expensive educations known to man and is financially rewarding because perhaps 1% can obtain the necessary funds for the training.  You can pay hourly for training but we like to see folks that are financially prepared.

Our recent graduates that have accumulated 1000 hours helicopter "pilot in command" time have been receiving offers at $52,000 a year to fly to oil rigs.  They build about 600 hours a year in this "offshore" work and at about 3,000 hours they're reporting salaries of $85,000 a year.  If you seek the highest salary and don't mind being away from your family you will probably top $100,000 a year.   We have placed graduates throughout the industry and the world. 

BayCopters takes pictures for BOATPIX.com and other photography companies.  (more info).

We offer the following Helicopter ratings: Private, Commercial, Flight instructor, Instrument, and Instrument Flight Instructor.

We understand the importance of the student-instructor relationship; therefore, all training will be tailored to meet your individual needs. Contact us today to see how we can help you begin your career as a helicopter pilot.

BayCopters's flight training cost is among the lowest in the industry.

We also offer aerial photography services.

300 hours for $60,000 click here $100 an hour plus fuel for commercial pilots building time!

What:	Price:
VFR flight training (pr hr)*	$250
IFR flight training (pr hr)	$300
Solo flight (pr hr)*	$250
Hour building if you have a comm heli rating (pr hr)***	$100 PLUS GAS
Ground school (pr hr)*	$20
Pilot Training Packages	Price:
Private Pilot Course**	$10,000.00
Instrument Rating Course **	$11,000.00
Commercial Pilot Course**	$25,000.00
Certified Flight Instructor Course	$5,000.00
Certified Flight Instructor Instruments Course	$4,000.00
Pro Pilot Package: zero to Commercial and 300 hours	$60,000.00

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Standard price. Pro Pilot package works our to $200 per hour but is front loaded at $250/hr for the first 100 hours, $200/hr  for the second 100 hours and $150/hr for the last 100 hours

**
Price based on a standard courses fulfilling the FAA's minimum requirements to standard prices. The average student will need more training. The total course cost will depend on the students previous experience, progress with the training and choice of training location.

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This price, for employment-realistic  training through 300 hours total time. See current terms.

BayCopters will assist you with all of your lodging, rental car, and personal needs prior to and during your stay, just ask.

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3. If you and your parents and grandparents make less than a combined  $100,000 a year  flight school  financing for the amount required is more challenging as banks are wary of loaning money to folks they don't think can repay the loan.  A $55,000 Corvette  is easier to finance than helicopter training because they can repossess the car but can't  take away your education.  The helicopter licenses require the expensive flying in the helicopter.  However, the virtually free studying for the written exams  can be done by reading books and perhaps you could get the books or borrow them and pass your written exams for Private, Commercial, Fundamentals of Instruction and Certified Flight Instructor.   With these exams completed (we'll give you the necessary signoff after a review) you can take an exam and become an advanced ground instructor and be paid to be in the aviation community.   You can study on your own or take a local ground school course, buy a DVD course to help you prepare or you can go to college and take classes that give you  college credit or do a combination of all of these.  Congressman Stafford spearheaded a program decades ago to guarantee a student loans for degree seeking college students but these programs do NOT help you get your helicopter time but can help you study for the exams and get a college degree.  You may wish to explore these options with an online college  that has a degree seeking program for aviation www.uvscaviation.com and you get your education with them and then fly with us as we are two separate organizations working together.  You would enroll with them, pay a $35 fee and they can help you with financial aid that we can't offer.  877-336-8872

4. If you are eligible for the Montgomery GI Bill understand that those benefits to veterans kick in after you pay for your private rating which would average 60 hours at $250 per hour.

5. If you are not a US citizen call about visa requirements.

Our location on Kent Island provides an ideal training environment, convenient to the entire region. We look forward to becoming your flight training home.