EN48, I understand what you're saying. One of the problems I saw in the US when I went to do some hour building there, my examiner had the same hours in the R22 as myself when he was checking me out for SFH. He was a fixed wing guy, 23yrs old, and had just converted to rotary. When he asked for an auto back to the field, I put it on the deck and he nearly sh*t his pants, as he wasn't used to doing them to the ground. I had taken virtually every auto to the ground when training in UK. There are a lot of low hour instructors out there and this is likely to reflect in accident statistics. I noticed as peoples hours increased, so did the self confidence levels and belief in their ability. 500hrs, 1000hrs etc. We learn every time we fly but some never do.
