N72EX (Kobe Bryant) Crash Update-

[212man]

Originally Posted by gulliBell

The foundations should be laid on the pilot initial type course. For the S76 that would be 10 full days in ground school, followed by 10 hours of dual instruction in the aircraft. Coming out of that training pipeline the newly minted S76 pilot should be in no doubt that you don't fumble about flying that thing manually in clouds, especially single pilot..

Interesting point - bear in mind that this pilot was in a regulatory environment that did not require a type rating, let alone an initial type course, on the S76. So, who knows what his foundations were......(not meant to be a catalyst for a discussion about the rights and wrongs of regulator policy, just a statement of fact that might be missed by pilots from other parts of the world, who might have been familiar with a more formal introduction to the type)