Originally Posted by Um... lifting... (Post 10060917)

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.

Originally Posted by rrekn (Post 10067975)

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


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

Originally Posted by rudestuff (Post 10059264)

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

Originally Posted by Um... lifting... (Post 10059535)

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.

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