Shopping Around JAAland
I thought you ‘guys’ may like to know about a company in Romania, SAS Helicopters who run AS365N JAA type ratings courses. I’ve just come back and I can honestly say it was a good course. Romania, has come a long way from the Ceauşescu days and appalling orphanages since joining the EU and JAA.
JAA amendment 6 states that multi engine turbine (MET) to MET can be done in 3 hours plus the skill test (not the first type, which is 8 hours). I did it in 7 hours with the IR element.
The ground school was a series of power point presentations followed by trips to the hangar with engineers (ex Nicolae Ceauşescu’s).
The flights were all pre and post briefed and the examiner was the RCAA head man who was friendly and helpful, although it wasn’t a walk in the park.
They charge 1,800 Euros per hour including taxes, which is about the same as a twin squirrel in ROB (rip off Britain).
Let’s just shop around JAAland