I wouldn’t want to be taught by a 200 hour instructor. When I was sent, much against my better judgement some thirty seven years ago, to RAF Central Flying School to learn how to be a QHI I had just short of 1500 hours, most of it on twin engined helicopters. I really didn’t want to go that early in my career because I considered myself short on experience and the “Old Guard” had many times that many hours.
As I previously mentioned, every EOL we did was to grass. The one significant EOL accident I do remember was a borrowed RAF Puma....at Boscombe Down, by a test pilot.. and to a tarmac runway....oops.
Maybe he’d forgotten his big watch that day.
