Originally Posted by
DavidSmithHeli
You are entitled to your opinion, but having spent a lot of my career in the training industry and being intimately familiar with the 505 training program I can say that you are not correct about the cost and funding for training.
For what it is worth, I am the one you can thank for holding R22 spare part prices flat for almost my entire time at the company. I also made sure that when we doubled the life of the R66 parts last year we passed most of the financial benefit to the customer even though some of the new revisions cost more to make.
We have tried to be sensitive to the running costs of our aircraft which is the dominant driver of affordability. If biannual (or every 5 years!) training cost is dominating your flight expenses, you are not flying enough.
PS: take a look at our new R66 Transition course that directly compares to the $17k 505 course… we offer more flight time, more ground school and we do it in California! $7k! Best deal in town after the safety course 😉
https://www.robinsonheli.com/trainin...nsition-course
Lol,...I love how you all justify this course suddenly doubling in price by comparing it to courses that are being paid for by an employer, not an actual pilot.
To be frank (pun in there somewhere) after the second trip I found that the course didn't offer anything new to learn anyway. I just kept going because it was fun way to get my BFR.
,..but then (this being McRib season) I used to get at least half a dozen of those before it ended. Now (at their ridiculous price increase) I can only afford one. That's life I guess.
What's that quote I'm think of from an old Mel Brooks movie? Oh yeah,..."!!!! the poor".
