Hi All,
Well four years on here is what I have to say.I trained up to CPL in the R22.Not much room,fast(For a piston)T-bar Sucks, great for Lmtd Pwr training as every take off was a cushion creep.Seat cushion always needed to be surgically removed from Butt when turbalance encountered.
Did Instructor rating in 300CB,CBi,C.300 much better chopper!Very forgiving through out the flight envelope.Heaps of room for two(Not so with three)A little more time to say "what the F**k was that" before things fall off.Bit slow!!
300C plenty of grunt and good work horse.Expensive to run.
300CB piece of crap!!!
So in my point of view the 300CBi is the way to go.
Flown with a few guys now.No difference with the flying depending on what they trained on.Good pilots are exactly that and not so good ones are the same!!
Safe flying all.
