Just to confirm: no one kitbuilt helo doesn't lessen your expenses in rising hours. Especially Rotorway - it is fun to fly, but hell to keep flying (after first 100 hrs).
It's really worth to think to go for a couple of weeks to any other country which has low hour cost - Eastern Europe, for example. Here in Moscow you can fly twin-turbine Mi-2 for only $200/hour and much less - in Rotorway Exec.
No R-22 to the moment but Rotorways flying here are really good and flight instructors are really worth to fly with - if you wish to be an instructor finally.
Cheers,
TwistAir
JJ-Helicopters
Moscow
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