Man this thread is never going to die......
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Cran WTH are you on about? Last post
I saw from you was in Oct last year and your comment was " not much longer now " waiting on a new trainer ......well its almost a year , i'd say that is much longer..where is it /when is it/what is it?...do tell I am anxious ... not bagging honest.
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hmm the R22 if you can fly this you can fly anything ....blah blah blah Oh cmon, I dont think any one really believes that , a type rating is a type rating is a type rating.
Everyones skill level is different ... lets see documented cases of students times and where they are now comparing R22 to Schweizer to 47's and see.............. also lets see the costs to date including transition times & types... that ought to be a good read I think
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if the R22 was not intended for a trainer then why is it so?
Just happened to be? Nah .. coincedence is for suckers me thinks.
Good planning by Frank Robinson & best of luck to him.
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If its a cost thing then thats not a good way to balance your life really......" I learned to fly the R22 when I had the option to learn to fly on something a little more safer cause I wanted to save money" ... yeah good one.
I would rather learn to fly something that is more forgiving and safer & slower and less fatal and may even take me longer to transition into other helo types ( cough bull sh!7 !! ) than go in something that may become a stream lined anvil cause I screwed up learning to fly and or my instructor wasnt as fast fixing my screw up... and on and on it goes.
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I think you are going to love what you learn to fly in cause thats what you learned to fly in... thats why folks are biased.
Its not a bad thing , if you learned in a 22 then good fo ryou or a 47 or what ever.
I dont see too many R22 init pilots saying ...man i wished I never learned to fly in that one..I hate it , what a POS !!!....show me the thread & I appologise profusly.
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Dear Frank Robinson, please design a trainer helicopter. Period.
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If Robinson did come out with a trainer, Iwonder what it would ... (A) look like.....(B) Perform like (C) be safe like ......and (D) cost like ... init and long term.
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Grinning running & ducking.let the games begin.
HF
