Future civilian tilt-rotor pilots: Will the industry want FW type transfers or RW?

[rrekn]

Didn't Bristow sign a similar agreement at HAI 3 years ago?


https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...al-ops-409721/

[Lonewolf_50]

Originally Posted by Um... lifting...

Ditto.
In my time training some of the students in the rotorcraft part of the pipeline (probably about the same time you were involved) the balance of multi and rotor seemed to be a moving target.

Yeah, it was. (HT-8 or 18?)

[noooby]

Originally Posted by rrekn

Didn't Bristow sign a similar agreement at HAI 3 years ago?


https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...al-ops-409721/

Not quite. The Bristow deal was only to assist with developing an offshore variant of the 609. There was no commitment to order any.

Era has also been helping with that, but has followed up with an order for two machines.

[rickseeman]

Originally Posted by rudestuff

Powered lift has been a separate category for decades, even though there's never been anything to fly...

I remember when the category came out. To get your powered lift ATP you have to have 250 hours in powered lift. Now that is going to be hard to get.

[tottigol]

Originally Posted by Um... lifting...

Well, one might be well-served to ask where tilt-rotor pilots come from now (those that aren't already pilots). U.S. Marine Corps flight students last I knew went through a somewhat hybrid pipeline with primary single-engine airplane, a somewhat abbreviated advanced helicopter syllabus, and a somewhat abbreviated multiengine airplane syllabus. I would imagine that they're able to sit for and pass Commercial exams for both single & multi engine fixed, rotary and instrument prior to heading to the tilt-rotor fleet replacement squadron.

Anecdotal information from the Marine Corps some years ago tended to suggest that for pilots beyond ab initio doing transitions fixed-wing pilots were easier to untrain.

According to the NAVY training pipeline...
I am ready!

But then, I always knew it.