PPL Hughes/MD500

[bubba73]

I am going to get my PPL and also going to buy a Hughes 500D or a MD500 want want to learn in my own Heli as well.

Does anyone know of a good instructor in the Myrtle Beach SC area?

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[The Range]

You lucky guy. And by the way, what's finally the official name of this helicopter?
Is it still called the MD500?

[HEMS driver]

I used to instruct in a Hughes 500D, which is my favorite helo. I would offer to help, but I am six hours south of you and I let my CFI expire. Are you already a pilot and want to do this as an additional rating?

[flyboyike]

Is it typical to start one's rotary life with a $600,000 helicopter?

[multycpl]

If money is no object....yes. Happens all the time in the fixed wing world.

[HEMS driver]

In general, not unusual. A friend of mine did the same thing and I taught him to fly it and he obtained a commercial rotorcraft-helicopter add-on rating.

It is not unusual for non-pilots to purchase an airplane which they use to obtain a PPL.