Stefan L. wrote:
put it properly in its spot At that point, my
instructor told me that he felt I was ready to
solo, but the schools policy required 15 hours of
dual because of insurance. That was back in '04.


Were you training in the US?
I wonder how a flight school can do this! The SFAR 73 requires
non-rotorcraft rated pilots to get 20h of dual instruction prior to solo
a R22.

So the least amount of hours for a rotorcraft helicopter add on would be
30 hours!

I just checked into this and you are correct. My
instructor must have been confused about the
reason he couldn't sign me off for solo, or
perhaps I misunderstood him.

That would change the calculations in my earlier
post to make the helicopter only rating less
expensive.

Don W.