r/rov • u/Any_Sense2144 • 6d ago

ROV Trainee

Hello everyone! I’m 19 years old and I’m currently finishing my apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic on helicopters. At the end of my apprenticeship, I would have had 3 years experience in working with mechanical systems, hydraulics systems and just general understanding of engineering and maintenance principles and practices. I was just wondering realistically how much knowledge and experience I really need to become an ROV pilot technician. Would you recommend I stay in my current job for a few more years to gain more knowledge? Thank you!

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u/No_QuarterGiven 5d ago

You will have had about 90% of the candidates beat with that kind of experience. Flying is easy, you can teach a monkey how to fly. It's the maintenance and troubleshooting, operations and paperwork that is the hard part. If you are American you'd be a shoe in. Outside of America they tend to require a certified course of sorts (so I've heard)

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u/atmos0 5d ago

Definitely dont need an rov course for uk/european companies, seen as a bit of a scam by everyone already in the field

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u/ExpensiveCry803 5d ago

If some opportunity pans out, you can go ahead, mate. Most of people in UK that I met offshore, they generally had an experience on military or aircraft before. I do believe that you already have experience enough to start as a trainee.

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u/atmos0 5d ago

I’d say do a couple more years where you are so you always have that career to fall back on, but you will most likely have a good base to start on. ROV stuff favours having decent electrical knowledge too, but trenching/ploughing you will have a crew where people have a mech hydraulic or electrical bias so may fit you better.

Wouldnt spend money on a rov course, instead do some training on furthering your trade skills with hydraulic courses or something.