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Old 18th Sep 2004, 09:35
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Rotorbee - I think you should address your criticisms to the helicopter industry not the military. How many helicopter operators actually train their own ab-initio pilots? How many are happy for others to train them (military, self-help etc) and then employ them? The reasons are surely financial as each operator seeks to squeeze the last buck from the contract. Does this mean it's right? I don't think so and it encourages the nomadic tendencies of the commercial helo pilot who needs show little loyalty to a company who has shown him none.
There is no way on earth that a low time instructor can give the same quality of training as one with experience - he/she will spend most of their time twitching as the student tries to kill them rather than anticipating the error as they have seen it many times before.
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