These pictures were taken on precisely the day of my vertical autotraining.
This was some of the best training I have ever recieved, out of the box, real world oriented, to say the least.
Compared to factory training I have found that going to real operators for training is very useful, for example last year I went for training in Oregon with an operator, now that was an eye opening experience! Real world, not routine, the other guys at my company have recently been to Canadian H for AS350 training and say it has been the best training ever had, better than factory. Same in my case for Bell training, the training recieved from real operators has been better than factory training, MUCH CHEAPER TOO.
IMHO Factory is good for ground training, but in my experience flight training has always been better with operators, their instructors are usually not political about training, they will keep you safe and everything else comes second, could it have to do anything with lawsuits?
That's me in both pictures.
