High demand generates queue to buy helicopters in Brazil

In a decade, the number of aircraft in the country doubled. 

In Sao Paulo, Increasingly companies use the helicopter to escape the chaotic traffic in the streets. The city now has one of the largest fleets in the world and continues to grow. But who wants to buy a new helicopter today only gets in two years. Improving With the economy, the weak dollar and chaos at airports, queues to get the helicopter are Increase Increase Increase Increase Increase increase increasing. It's almost 1100 aircraft flying across the country. Half of Them are in Sao Paul, Which Also ranks first in the world for helicopter traffic. 

Remotely operated Unmanned Helicopter 

The demand for these aircraft to not even stop growing. Helicopter greater account the market cost about £ 360,000. Is far from being cheap and not popular. Still, the Brazilian fleet, Which includes several models, is booming. According to the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), in a decade, the number of helicopters in the country Nearly doubled. Today there are 1,069. The amount of new records, Which hovered around 50 per year, Increase Increase Increase Increase Increase is increase increasing. In 2007 already 62.'s the economic landscape industry is moving. 

Demand for helicopters worldwide has grown so that today there is a waiting list. The major manufacturers are in the United States, Canada, France and Italy. But who buy a helicopter today, at best, will only receive at the end of 2009. This delay helicopter stirs the secondhand market. "Today, the helicopter used sometimes costs more than the helicopter itself by zero availability, By being here, is the goodwill that the citizen pays to have the aircraft now, if he wants," says the president of the Brazilian Helicopter Pilots Association, Cleber Mansur. 'S Most Wanted Among the new models, the most desirable are the twin-engine light. Are safer than single engine and can land on Helipads on top of buildings.

Ultralight Helicopter produced by the joint Chinese-German company being Exhibited in Shanxi

山西 展区 展示 了 山西 青云 集团 有限公司 在 德国 的 研发 中心 自主 研发 制造 的 HPC 450 直升飞机.

HPC 450 直升飞机

One, for example, costs $ 6 million -. About £ 12 million . It is a luxury for many people, but it is Increasingly used by companies "Nearly 70% are firms that use helicopter for transportation to shift executives in the urban area of sao paulo," says the director of sales of helicopters José Eduardo Brandão. ' S oil sector is Also Responsible for Increasing the number of aircraft in the country. Altogether, 80 helicopters are used to transport between the mainland and offshore platforms. 

BSB Sky City Changsha with 6 Helipads

Nearly half of the Brazilian fleet is in São Paulo:. Aircraft is 467 throughout the state In Rio de Janeiro, is 215, .. and Minas Gerais, 108 little branch that costs nothing The training course for commercial pilots, 100 flight hours, goes . $ 100,000 for "Attractive glamor is the first that people see in aviation in some way - that thing free life, knowing many places, so many people .. I fly for 28 years and if you can, flying over 28," says the president of the Brazilian Helicopter Pilots Association, Cleber Mansur. ' S starting salary of a helicopter pilot is around £ 5000. The price of chartering an aircraft these ranges from £ 700 to £ 5000 per hour.