In my experience as a part time instructor at an r2d2 only school, the autos were almost never done to touch down. this was school policy; although I had at the time tons of fullons in enstrom, 300, 206, etc. The thought process there was that once again risk was too great. This same school in the ""old days""(up north) did full ons regularly with robbies, all instructors did them so they remainded current, with no problems.
So what does this say? Full ons in a 22 can be done, lets say it's not as forgiving at the bottom as a 300, etc. So run it on a bit!
This same school recently graduated a student that had done only 10 full ons; her training consisted of 30 hours 22, and 70 Bell 206. Any thoughts about that??
Back to the question at hand - 300's are a great overall trainer for ab initio students. Turn off the friggin' governor in a 22 and it gets a bit better but still spoils a student in rpm control.
Drawback for the school is cost of the 300 and the maintenance it requires.
Just my thoughts.
