300 or 22

[lelebebbel]

I didn't just decide to knowingly bump a 5yr old thread. It was at the top of the page , 1st thread below the stickied threads so I replied w/o looking at the date. I certainly didn't go searching. Simple mistake. My bad. How was such an old thread so high up on the page before I posted?

 

possibly a post by a spambot or something brought it up here and subsequently got deleted?

 

To answer the original question: Train in whatever machine YOU think you will most likely be working in later. That should be your priority, not personal taste or the shape of the cyclic or whatnot.

You'll graduate training as a low time pilot. Make sure that the majority of that low time is in the type your potential employer operates, be that the 300, 22, 44 or whatever else (although R22 experience translates pretty well to the R44).

Edited March 29, 2012 by lelebebbel

[eagle5]

People keep bringing this one back to vote, but I think there's one more question that should be in the poll;

 

Which one would you rather fly,...just for the shear joy of flying?

[BH206L3]

When I made the transition from airplanes to helicopters, R-22 was just getting going, I learned in a Bell 47 G 3 b1. I even did an instrument rating in one. So I didn't vote. The R-22 what ever my opinion on them, I have flown them some, is a moot point, its most likely the airframe you are going to get that first job flying. I personally don't like the lay out. Where they put some of the controls, i.e. carb heat and fuel mixture control. They made the nobs pretty much the same feel and the fix was a plastic ring on the fuel. No matter the industry loves the things so its really a moot point on my part. I think the 300's makes for a better airframe for flight training, since that aircraft was designed for flight training. Robbies were conceived as owner flown personal transportation. Didn't work out that way.