AS350 rating help............

[dawn raider]

Hi,
looking to do an AS 350 rating in early april. Anyone have any suggestions ? I'm not intersted in fancy TRTO's just good cost effective training / checking in the UK.

any help greatly appreciated.

[Flingingwings]

What area of the UK are you looking at?

[paco]

If I'm not mistaken, you need a TRTO, fancy or otherwise.

Phil

[nigelh]

check your P.M,s

[dawn raider]

live in edinburgh but will travel to do the flying.

thanks PACO I wasn't clear in what I said, I appreciate I need a TRTO but having spent too many years and almost 10k hours in the airline and Heli business I know I don't need one that charges you the earth because it has a pretty hangar and nice uniforms if you know what i mean - that was what i meant to say, sorry if it was unclear.

there are very deft instructors / TREs out there with access to TRTO and machines who might be able to help me.

all PMs answered. many thanks for the suggestions so far.

[B Sousa]

You might check with some folks, but I have seen a lot of youngsters from Europe lately getting their FAA ratings on a Visa and then using the remaining time on their Visa to work in the states. www.papillon.com has hired a few and they ended up with some money and 2-300 hours on AS-350s before they had to go back to Europe.
I dont know the particulars but its worth looking at....Im sure someone who is smarter than I am will remind me of that and give us all the correct answers here.