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| Originally Posted by AMG Hi Adam,
In my flight school they said that some fixed wing pilots never could learn to fly Helis and some Heli pilots never learned fixed wing. What otherwise is a common route is to start with fixed wing as it is cheaper to get the hours of basic flight training, navigation and such. Thereafter or in parallell take your heli-training and with the combined hours get the Helicopter license. Or both, since it will be cheaper to maintain a fixed wing license if you only fly for pleasure. |
Good advice Lars. As you said, learning to fly is easy. Learning navigation and communication is the hard part. It's much easier (and less expensive) to concentrate on learning, while flying fixed wing. In addition, the fixed wing license will offer much broader possibilities.
In the end... get a rotor wing license if you have a specific application or intend to make it a career. Get the fixed wing if you want to fly recreationally.