there are vastly more important considerations over; 'ease of egress
Do tell, on topic.
Originally Posted by
Hughes500
As an instructor having your hand some 9 inches off your leg is awful, one of the many reasons the 300 is a considerably better teaching helicopter
Although the models have been vastly used for training, the intention was not as a training helicopter. If this had been such a selling point for the H300/S300, we would probably seen bigger numbers of them, and Robinson reconsidering it’s design, no?? It’s a technique as and instructor, which is not that hard to get used to, and you do not hold your hand in that position throughout the students training program.
There was an STC (SR9BO) developed by a company called Altair (not longer in business) for modifying the R-22 to a conventional cyclic setup which looked like the MD900 design. Never made it to the R44 and did not become a sales hit in the R22 either.
As I said in my previous post, the Robinson products are far from my favourite, but I find this specific discussion straight out silly.