LEARNING TO FLY HELICOPTERS

Contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS:
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Helicopter Myths
• Basic Aerodynamics
• lift and airfoils
• stalls
• torque and tail rotors
• unconventional helicopter design
• Flight Controls
• the collective
• the throttle
• the cyclic stick
• the tail rotor pedals
• Your First Flight
• before the flight
• baggage
• hearing protection
• boarding the helicopter
• before takeoff briefing
• the flight
• emergencies
• Basic Flight Maneuvers
• straight and level
• pilot induced turbulence
• acceleration / deceleration
• level turns
• normal climbs
• cyclic only climbs
• collective only climbs
• best climb method
• normal descents
• turning climbs and descents
• doing it by the numbers
• Learning To Hover
• the basic hover
• hovering turns
• hovering in the wind
• in and out of ground effect
• More Basic Maneuvers
• takeoff
• approach and landing
• traffic patterns
• quick stops
• Autorotation
• four step aircraft emergency procedure
• practicing autorotations
• closer to the ground
• hovering autorotations
• common errors
• autorotation 180 and 360 degrees
• the dead man's curve
• Advanced Maneuvers
• confined area operations
• slope operations
• maximum performance takeoffs
• pinnacles and ridge operations
• roof-top heliports
• Emergencies
• tail rotor system failures
• tail rotor control failures
• tail rotor drive failures
• main gearbox malfunctions
• engine malfunctions
• fires
• Aircraft Systems
• engines
• main transmission
• clutch and freewheeling unit
• main rotor systems
• rotor blades
• swashplates
• vibration reducing devices
• fuel systems
• electrical systems
• hydraulic systems
• flight instruments
• other systems
• Human Factors and Safety
• psychological baggage
• future problems
• advice to the manufacturers