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Old 3rd Mar 2015, 19:25
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If the amount of training they did were scaled up to the size of the Robbo operation then we'd have a long list of silly misfortunes in Gazelles too.
AnFI - perhaps if you looked at how many thousands of training hours were flown just by the British armed forces (we had 3 training bases, one for each Service all using the Gaz for many years) let alone many more thousands flown by foreign mil - you might understand how few training mishaps there have been and even fewer fatalities.

That is because it is a well designed helicopter with few vices and is capable of being mishandled (accidentally or deliberately) without turning itself into scrap - not a description you could level at the Robinson family of helos.

Romeopapa - if you had ever flown with a 'non-commisioned Army wallah' you would know that they are very often excellent pilots - something that can't be said for the majority of self-funded Robinson owners!
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