As someone who does juat a little helo flying as a freelancer every now and then this has put me out of the market.
It used to be a simple matter for the Chief Instructor to asess how much recurrent I needed befire doing a base cx, now I have to do 2 hrs per type, to date I have not needed anything like that on the simple B206.
I wrote to the CAA to query this 2 hrs minimum and was told there is rising concern (in the umpteen european states) at the level of light helo accidents...yet as far as I can see the rule makes no allowance for size or complexity, a S61 driver seems to be treated the same as a Jetranger which is clearly nonsensical, but worse there seems to be no distinction made between private and commercial!
Worse, and even more discriminatory (I hope Im reading the book correctly) there seem to be NO MINIMA FOR AEROPLANES AT ALL!!! Apparently recurrency in any aeroplane, no matter how complex is "at Ch Instructors discretion". Thus a PPL in a King Air gets what he needs, and a Professional with 3000 hrs on the utterly simple Jetranger has to do 2 hrs regardless. Can this possibly be right?
JAR Progress? Bah!
[This message has been edited by Pinger (edited 17 May 2000).]