Originally Posted by
albatross
RANT
Until I joined this site I was not aware of how difficult it is to land a helicopter on a spot with the aircraft aligned correctly.
Give me a break...we were landing on small bush helipads and confined areas with no pads before we even went solo.
Of course our instructors had thousands of hours of bush experience ..
What has changed?
Now instructors are lucky to have 500hrs and with all the PC tick the box parade going on, a training helicopter is lucky to get off an airfield... other than that, all good...