"Andrew Crane" wrote in message ...
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Once you have a fixed wing PPL, the FAA min to get a rotorcraft rating
is only 16 hours. The catch is that most of schools I have looked at
will only credit you 10 hours toward your 40 total required for
rotorcraft. That leave a minimum of 30 that they want you to have in
a real helicopter.


If someone can pass their test after 16 hours or even 30, they'd be one in a
million though. In which case this isn't really that much of a catch...

Well, I had my CPL,Multi,CFI and transitioned to Comm. Rotor-Helo,CFI-Helo
in less than 50 hours. Of course maybe my total time and experience may
have had something to do with it. I allocated two weeks for this project.

Skyking