Re: Pro Helo Pilot Forum
Most of the guys who are saying that either forget where they came from or were in the Army and never there. The cool thing about flying Robbies at altitude is power managment. Unlike you big guys we have to concern ourselves with being at max gross. It's sad when you can only carry 16 gallons of fuel. The cycle pretty much looks like this fly to pinnacle land, shoot approach to one more land, head back for fuel. I think most of my time these days is either on my way to get fuel or on the way from getting fuel.
I do know of some schools that have both. The school I got my PPL rotor at has a fixed wing side. In fact after I got my license I started flying planks there. It was so busy on the heli side that I don't think those CFIs would have been able to fly planes if they wanted to.
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