Another couple of myths:
"The R22 is a great little training helicopter."
"If you can fly an R22, you can fly anything."
J
ShyTorque,
I think quite a few Puma jockeys can recount a story very similar to that one.
I used to be the QHI out there for a while and spent a lot of time showing the new guys just how easy it was to get into VR. One particular evening, whilst demo\'ing from FL80, we lost 6500 ft, even though we knew it was coming. There was a long thread on this subject about a year ago.
It\'s quite disconcerting when the cyclic doesn\'t work quite as you\'d like it to. The few second it takes to get that indication of airspeed seems like an eternity when the cyclic is straining against the bottom of the instrument panel!
J