Flightist
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The FBO I'm instructing at does both helicopter and fixed wing instruction. As you can imagine it's a lot cheaper for them to do the first 25 hours of instrument training in a 172. We have helo CFII instructors to finish up the training. I'm a CFII with no helo experience.
I've got my first helicopter student starting today and I would appreciate any advice or observations any of you might have who have done this.
I'm a bit torn on how much primary airplane instruction to give these people and whether I should emphasize or deemphasize any aspects of the regular curriculum. I would like it if they had enough skills to get the plane back on the ground if I died of a heart attack but I don't want to waste their time and money doing maneuvers they can't apply to helicopters or that might even interfere with their training when thet get back to the helo flying.
So if any of you have taught both or if your a fixed wing instructor who has taught helo students please give me any advice you can.
Thanks
I've got my first helicopter student starting today and I would appreciate any advice or observations any of you might have who have done this.
I'm a bit torn on how much primary airplane instruction to give these people and whether I should emphasize or deemphasize any aspects of the regular curriculum. I would like it if they had enough skills to get the plane back on the ground if I died of a heart attack but I don't want to waste their time and money doing maneuvers they can't apply to helicopters or that might even interfere with their training when thet get back to the helo flying.
So if any of you have taught both or if your a fixed wing instructor who has taught helo students please give me any advice you can.
Thanks