Hi all,
minimum time for solo 20hrs - period.
Anything else is to early for my taste - especially in a R-22.
Also this avoids "instructor-competitions" about who solos students faster (had that happen at my airplane-solo, 3.7 hrs, stupid, ....).
My experience with R-22 students is, that they all need some serious time to get the hang on a real auto-entry, not the regular Robinson-training auto-entry (lower collective, stabilize auto, slightly reduce rpm, ...) - but the real one (power-loss, react, entry, stabilize)
On a solo, all I care for is, that a student is able to enter and stabilize an auto, SHOULD the incredible happen and he really looses power on the solo.
You can survive a 1300 fpm impact, and most likely they do SOMETHING at the bottom of the auto anyway.
The most dangerous part is to get caught and NOT react, stall and come down at 8000 fpm (see actual video at the safety-course, the English R-22, carb-ice, power-loss, stalled rotor).
You have a hard time to get a R-22 0-hr student to that point in just 20 hrs....
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