...and diving into the unpopular bomb crater on the battlefield of pointless arguements comes SHMEEE.....!
I have resisted but I think this is too good a blue to miss.
FOR THIS SUBJECT ONLY: I agree with PP1....(a little)
I was a fortunate copilot on a twin once and I had a bunch of super guys showing me IFR, Boat landings, foul WX offshore analysis and just generally how to think smart in a helo.
To do this all with 350hrs of mostly training flying is really asking for a negative experience. I do not know of one new IFR pilot fresh out of school who has ever been in cloud before. I certainly hadn't. So without the two crew environment I would never have learn't to plan, operate or behave safely IFR. This is a SPIFR machine...if you are thinking you can fly this by yourself with a BS inital IFR you are kidding.
I think PP1's comments have been blown out of porportion. A 430 is not a 206 and the complexity and system knowledge is 10 times that of a single. There is the little issue of extra weight as well...
Perhaps we should just take the comments without considering his previous post history.
PP1: congrats on that freakin huge post.....