Posted on 04/15/2015 7:55:14 AM PDT by pabianice
Becoming a “den leader” to kids in choppers is not how Mark Robinson foresaw his career, but that’s what the chief pilot of Revolution Aviation has been since opening his helicopter flight school in 2013. The school operates at John Wayne Airport, which caters to the wealthy in Orange County, California—where super-yachts dominate the harbor, Ferraris and Bentleys tool up the Pacific Coast Highway, and parents wanting helicopter lessons for their kids can easily front up to $1,000 an hour.
Robinson, who was raised in a mud hut by missionary parents in the African country of Cameroon, finds the new kind of clients surprising. Take the 14-year-old whose parents have budgeted over $100,000 for weekly lessons. “As soon as he gets his pilot’s license, his dad wants to buy a helicopter so his son can chauffeur him around,” says Robinson, a former safety helicopter pilot. “Instead of sports after school, parents are putting their kids in helicopters. They think having a helicopter pilot’s license on an application will help their kids get into college.”
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“They think having a helicopter pilot’s license on an application will help their kids get into college.”
They should teach him how to be an underrepresented minority instead.
I still don't feel poor.
I can't afford anything close to this, but I don't feel poor.
He should raise his rates to $2,000 per hour.
Take the $100,000 set aside for helicopter lessons and donate it to your school of choice instead. Your kid will get accepted even if they have an ACT score of 3.
selfie ping
Because the Clintons were “dead broke” after leaving the WH, Chelsea had to wait until age 30 for her $10 million Manhattan starter home.
Hillary flies out to Iowa in her Gulf Stream jet, and then meets up with the transportation company that delivered her “van” for the campaign. 1%rs
Me either and I am still looking at flying lessons later this year.
The Sec Serv is driving it with two armored Suburban escort cars, in a caravan.
That’s been confirmed via videos I’ve seen
“I didn’t feel poor until I read this article”
That seems to be the agenda.
Even Air and Space has a leftist agenda.
Helicopters are the motorcycles of the sky.... safety wise...
‘Take the 14-year-old whose parents have budgeted over $100,000 for weekly lessons.’
In a place I live they would teach you to fly a commercial airliner for under $50,000, given you are dumb enough and medically unfit not to get a grant from airline or join air force and get tuition for free.
As for rotary wing, for 90,000 rubles they would teach you to take off, land and make basic maneuvers with R44, and you would probably get full course and licence with this type for under 500,000 rubles which is less than $10,000.
I feel poor and am poor but at one time had an active pilot’s license.
The money spent provides good jobs to flight instructors, yacht captains, mechanics, etc., so spend away.
I sometimes pretend to be a marine biologist or an architect.
People who have scads of money should spend it on whatever they wish.
Even helicopter lessons for their children.
Meanwhile for the rest of middle America, general aviation (GA) has all but become out of reach and very unaffordable for most.
My dad used to rent a plane and take the family up on weekends. At one time he owned a Cessna. All on a single medium income where Mom wasn’t even required to work.
Just try doing that nowadays in middle America.
Join the Civil Air Patrol!
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