Alternatively, will there be a future need for single-rotor trainers? What if the Tiltrotors and other laterally-located twin rotor configurations become the VTOL craft of the future?
I made a few queries into the tilt rotor's out of sheer curiousity & have asked Nick L his opinion on the topic & he prompted me to raise a thread on the issue, so without hijacking Dave's thread here's what i learnt;
(directly from Bell) minimum requirements for the tilt rotor endorsement is CPL(H) + CPL(A), with most crew likely to require ATPL(H) +CPL(H).
Bell have set up an academy for training in the BA609, i contacted them & just for the endorsement you are looking at a cool US$50,000 (+/- US$20,000!)....
