Butters
Most people diss the R22 from experience. In the late 1980's I left the military and flew an R22A. I was a light 13 stone then as was my instructor. We could put around 12 gallons of fuel in it before we were close to MAUW. Had to use red line power and a cushion creep to get off the ground if there was no wind. Had a strange cylic arrangement as well. I thought at the time what a useless machine as it had a range of about an hour with a an average size passenger, thats if you could get out of anything else other than a large field. Then got in a 300C with same instructor with 4 hours of fuel and was able to do a vertical take off, I was sold on a 300C as a training machine