Originally Posted by Centaurus
Today it seems everything is a "big deal" in the eyes of the regulator.
That's a bit harsh, C. It seems fair enough to me that anybody in the RHS should be able to handle any eventuality, which means being checked out in failures etc. Safety evolves and while some new things are overkill IMO, not having to explain to a family how the untrained "captain" in the RHS used the wrong control inputs and flipped his aircraft after a cut at 50ft AFTO seems reasonable to me.