Robinson R22

so that's in the garden of our home in, in Henley-on-Klip, right on t- the, uh, the Klip River, which you can see in the background.

And the yard, long, narrow yards, were actually large enough for an R22 to land.

And that's me with a red shirt, and the instructor then was John Huddleston, which, uh, he, he later years, um, established a school in, uh, PE.

And, uh, that was one of the lessons that we did from there, and we'd, he'd fly out there, do the, the training, whatever exercise it was, drop me off, and go back home.

... at the time.

Yeah.

Would you suggest s- uh, for somebody that's might be, you know, uh, struggling with, with finances on, to start off flying a R22? I think it might be unfair and a very difficult question, 'cause it probably comes down to so many more factors, but would you advise training on a R22 to do your initial training?

For a variety of reasons, yes.

Again, as at the top of the show, I, I was mentioning that, you know, historically speaking, here in the United States, you go to flight school m- mostly in some type of Robinson product.

Back in my day, it was really primarily the R22.

I think a lot of it's now pushed into the R44 and even the R66.

You get your time, get through your SFAR and everything, get 200 hours, and you become a flight instructor.

And so this Robinson was his tool that he went around and did a lot of checks, right? And so we got to be talking about rotorcraft and our experience and that kind of a thing.

And a couple weeks later, so he had transitioned from having an R22 to the R44 Raven 1.

And you know how the horizontal stabilizer sticks past the skids by a fair amount on the 44? If you're accustomed to the 22, it wasn't something that stuck out and was a big of an issue.

And him pushing it in by himself, he smashed that horizontal stabilizer big time.