I did a week of Traffic Watch in Van Nuys, and the B206 conversion there. The CAA accepted the hours - only 25 hours anyway - and I got the impression there was only a problem with that if you had hundreds of hours of Traffic Watch, but I don't actually know. I did all the flying, but not the start-up and shutdown generally , though I was taught to do it. When there wasn't too much to do, we went off and did circuits and confined area approaches and other stuff like that. It was good, it was cheap, it was lots of fun, I learned a lot. But to some extent you get what you pay for, and I'm not convinced it was as good as a "traditional" turbine conversion. But I couldn't afford that, and never kept up my B206 flying anyway, for that reason.
