This Guimbal Cabri G2 is about to take off. [Courtesy: Sam Winer]
Key Takeaways:
The Guimbal Cabri G2 is a two-seat helicopter primarily designed for pilot training and private ownership, prioritizing safety, ease of flying, and maintainability.
It features advanced systems like a modern glass cockpit, a three-bladed fully articulating rotor, and a Fenestron tail rotor, offering an intuitive training experience that smoothly transitions pilots to larger turbine aircraft.
Despite a higher initial training cost, the G2 boasts an excellent safety record, top-rated customer support, and offers long-term value through lower operating costs and affordable maintenance compared to other piston helicopters.
What weighs 945 pounds, is a little over 20 feet long, stands just under 8 feet tall, has room for two, and costs about $600 a pound? That would be a new Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopter.
The little helicopter was brought to market in 2008 after gaining regulatory approval after decades of development beginning in the 1980s.
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Sam has his commercial fixed wing and rotorcraft rating, with just under 1,000 hours of total time. He owned a helicopter flight school in the Chicago area for over 11 years and worked as a pilot for radio traffic reporting services in the Chicago market. In addition, Sam has worked in the fast-paced radio news environment as a news anchor and traffic reporter in the Chicago, Milwaukee and Salt Lake City markets. His informative and humorous writing style, coupled with decades of experience in the aviation world, will provide easy reading with timely topics for the beginning aviator all the way up to the ATP professional.
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