R22 or R44: preference for rating
It's still not clear why you need to be type rated on a piston machine nor what you'd use the machine for. As a biker and owner of both 22s and 44s (and using the car analogy), the 22 is like a Caterham - small, light, very manoeverable and very much 'seat of your pants', designed really for training and for the driver to have a lot of fun in, rather than serious and practicle transport.
The 44 on the other hand, is more like a Mondeo - more stable, faster, a great compromise between economy and performance, no bells or whistles but reliable and comfortable - plus you can take your mates up.
Despite the apparent similarities, they are complete different machines aimed at completely different requirements - ultimately it's your own circumstances and reasons for doing this that will determine which one is for you.
The 44 on the other hand, is more like a Mondeo - more stable, faster, a great compromise between economy and performance, no bells or whistles but reliable and comfortable - plus you can take your mates up.
Despite the apparent similarities, they are complete different machines aimed at completely different requirements - ultimately it's your own circumstances and reasons for doing this that will determine which one is for you.
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You might be better off with a Schweizer or a Bell 47.
You say that you want to FLY a PISTON. forget the schweizer it's almost got correlation.
Find and old '47 with an equally old fair dinkum '47 driver and ask him to show how to fly the throttle box on his '47. Nothing else counts when it comes to learning pistons.
I mean fair dinkum, all of the (R?) models have elctronic correlation governer gizmos that mean you might as well be flying a turbine.
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TeT
TeT, at the end of every collective in every Robby 22s and 44s there's a switch that turns off/on the governor. My CFIs always turn those things off and make me use my wrist to control the RPM. As the RPM on R22s decay rapidly, I get a good workout.
I mean fair dinkum, all of the (R?) models have elctronic correlation governer gizmos that mean you might as well be flying a turbine.
The R22's throttle correlation works about a million times better than a Bell 47 - you make very little manual correction compared to the Bell.
That was the biggest change when I first started flying 47's as a brand-new PPL, and this was in the pre-governor days on the R22 too.
That was the biggest change when I first started flying 47's as a brand-new PPL, and this was in the pre-governor days on the R22 too.
