Well done Lu for being so candid.
I do feel that in general your arguments have been too diverse and all encompassing, when it comes to R22 bashing. If you had just concentrated on one flaw (as perceived by you) at a time I think things may have been clearer. The threads have covered all manner of topics such as low g behaviour, low Nr behaviour, excessive sideslip problems and even the consequences of showing off at low level to your friends. To have pinned all this on Frank and his 18 degrees of offset was a little bold I feel, and smacked of an obsession.
Some of your statements simply don't show themselves in practice,as quite a few pilots tried to point out. The R22 is a very clever piece of kit and reasonable competence in handling it should yield dividends when converting to larger types. I appreciate the high loss rate, but this is more of a regulatory and training issue than a design flaw. You simply cannot expect a 50 hour PPL to fly a helicopter with the safety that an equivelant fixed wing pilot could fly a Cessna (and that's debatable in it's own right). Similarly, a very experienced pilot on larger types, such as Bells, with more benign handling traits may find problems in some predicaments.
Anyway, keep up the contributions, they certainly keep the forum alive!
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