How many hours of fixed wing time do you have logged to be able to teach and understand the differences in fixed wing and gyroplanes? Please don’t take this as a personal attack.
I have three hours in a Stearman Model 75 and two and a half hours under the hood in a Cessna 172.
I have done stalls and spins in the Stearman and unusual attitudes in the 172.
I don’t teach people how to fly fixed wing aircraft John.
I can see the baggage that some fixed wing pilots bring to the gyroplane flying experience and I work to mitigate that.
Generally speaking they have challenges with rotor management and want to rotate at some specific indicated air speed.
When I tell many fixed wing pilots to descend at a constant indicated air speed they move the cyclic forward to lower the nose before pulling the power. This tends to produce divergent indicated air speed. I have to tell them to pull the power and maintain airspeed with the cyclic.
Most feel that they need the rudder to make a turn.
Often they are confused by the steep descent for landing.
Many have a challenge with the delay in the controls and their fuzzy control over the angle of the fuselage. They forget they are flying the rotor and they are controlling the rotor with cyclic control.
Most fixed wing pilots are confused by the power/pitch/yaw coupling.
Some fixed wing pilots take to flying a gyroplane very well. My friend Joe who flies an Aeronca flew the Cavalon well with no instruction at all. He is the best to date managing pitch and yaw when I pulled the power back.
I had an airline transport pilot go from no gyroplane experience to passing his practical test with 3.6 hours of dual. By the end he was managing his airspeed so well I was taping the air speed indicator to see if it was stuck.
My friend John has done very well flying both the Cavalon and The Predator with very little instruction. He is an instrument rated fixed wing pilot that flies formations.
Everyone is different John.