Is it surprising mil aviation costs so much money ? Surely you start on a simple cheap trainer, it is hard enough for most pilots to grasp flying let alone how a complicated glass cockpit twin engine helicopter works when you first start! What's the chop rate on a US army course ? When Brit army taught me we started on a chipmunk fixed wing, of 13 starters 3 were chopped before we got near a helicopter, basic rotary on a 341 another 3 went, By the end of advanced rotary another 2 had gone. That is 8 from 13, now if that was in a helicopter, an expensive twin wow that's a lot of money to show 60% of course is not suitable