Originally Posted by
aa777888
A very good point. Similar to
that being discussed in the other R44 crash thread. All that performance margin helps you survive training. Helps you right up until that very first flight with your newly minted pilot certificate and all the seats filled. I am very happy that the school I used intentionally included lessons at max. gross weight. The extra pressure and cat calls from the other students in the rear are also good training. Made another student airsick once as when it was my turn in the front the instructor had me performing "enhanced training in autorotation procedures", as SFAR 73 puts it. That was pretty funny!
This seems to be more of an issue with schools who use the R44 exclusively. If you did your training in an R22 you'd be intimately familiar with flying at max gross weight and not being able to HOGE without busting power limits. An R44 with four on board is just an R22 with two.
