Originally Posted by
Hangarless
I believe that it is very beneficial to learn to fly on a machine that has neither a correlator or a governor, which in my case was an Enstrom.I believe that it creates a very solid platform My instructor was also big on getting us to use not only our feel and eyes to see what was going on but also to develop listening skills as to what the sounds of a laboring engine or an over revving engine were.
Doing quickstops , which are essentially the last move in an Auto ,over and over again developed a good co-ordination of all of the flight control and throttle movements that all had to be made in harmony to achieve smooth stops without gaining height while keeping the needles within the limits.
What my instructor did one day was to hold the throttle when I tried to open it after doing a quickstop which resulted in the machine sinking and we ended up running the machine onto the runway with low power. Once we had stopped moving he looked at me and said "that is what a full Auto to the ground feels like". From then on it was easy for me as my instructor had taught me to become comfortable with making big control movements and also not to fear letting the skids make contact with the surface with a little bit of forward speed.
The F-28C has no Correlator, the F-28F and 280FX both have correlators. If they weren't so snag prone, they'd be great trainers...