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Stefan L. wrote:
put it properly in its spot At that point, my instructor told me that he felt I was ready to solo, but the schools policy required 15 hours of dual because of insurance. That was back in '04. Were you training in the US? I wonder how a flight school can do this! The SFAR 73 requires non-rotorcraft rated pilots to get 20h of dual instruction prior to solo a R22. So the least amount of hours for a rotorcraft helicopter add on would be 30 hours! I just checked into this and you are correct. My instructor must have been confused about the reason he couldn't sign me off for solo, or perhaps I misunderstood him. That would change the calculations in my earlier post to make the helicopter only rating less expensive. Don W. |
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"Don W" wrote in message
... Stefan L. wrote: put it properly in its spot At that point, my instructor told me that he felt I was ready to solo, but the schools policy required 15 hours of dual because of insurance. That was back in '04. Were you training in the US? I wonder how a flight school can do this! The SFAR 73 requires non-rotorcraft rated pilots to get 20h of dual instruction prior to solo a R22. So the least amount of hours for a rotorcraft helicopter add on would be 30 hours! I just checked into this and you are correct. My instructor must have been confused about the reason he couldn't sign me off for solo, or perhaps I misunderstood him. That would change the calculations in my earlier post to make the helicopter only rating less expensive. Don W. Doesn't SFAR 73 apply "only" to the R22? |
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"B4RT" wrote in message ... Craig, The best way to save money is to NOT do any training until you've saved enough to do all of the fight time in a concentrated block of time. Pass your written exam first while youre saving up the money. Having the exam out of the way will relieve you of a lot of pressure so you can focus on the expensive flght time. If you only take one or two lessons a week it will probably take you at least 30% more flight hours to complete. Bart This is, as far as I'm concerned, the best advise of all. I can't comment on the rest because I don't have enough overall experience to but I've seen too many folks through the years start the process, run out of money, save up more, and then start again. The problem is, you loose proficiency while saving up more money and have to redo part of what you'd learned before when you do get back into it. Every time you do that it's adding unnecessary cost to an already expensive process. Also, having that darned written test under your belt "before" you start flight training is priceless. You've got the book learning done and can concentrate 100% on the fun stuff, the flight training. Much of the book learning didn't fully click in for me anyway until I was putting it to practice in the aircraft. Oh, I could answer the questions on the test just fine but it wasn't until I was in the aircraft that it "really" made sense. I can't imagine how it would have been trying to get the concepts down in my head from the book and trying to put them into practice in the aircraft at the same time. Maybe it wouldn't have been any big deal but I'm "very" happy with how it worked out getting the written done before I started flying. Good luck & Fly Safe, Steve R. |
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Hi,
I am interested to have a helicopter course, but since 1991 no aviation school here open in Indonesia a helicopter course. May i know the name of your flight school ? cheers, Anggoro Craig Campbell wrote: I am about to start my private pilot helicopter course. I have been told that learning fixed wing first makes it much easier. I am not sure what to do as my heart was set on rotary but I want to do it right first time. Can anyone please give me feedback on this? Thanks Craig Campbell |
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