So You Want To FLy Helicopters
Based on Sporty’s original helicopter training video, So You Want to Fly Helicopters brings helicopter flight into your living room like you've never seen before. Almost two hours of video thoroughly prepares you for the thrills and challenges of rotary-wing flight and help you master the aerodynamic concepts.
Features:
• Completely redesigned with vivid 3D animations
• All new exciting in-flight video, this program will
• Prepares you to pass the helicopter Private Pilot exam
• Includes preflight, basics of flight, hovering, taxiing, takeoffs and landings
• Also covers maneuvers, weight and balance, autorotation, emergency procedures, systems and components, and FARs.
• Discusses fundamentals of helicopter navigation and cross-country procedures.
• Fly the Robinson R22 and R44, Schweizer 269, and the Bell 206 JetRanger.
Learning to Fly Helicopters
-Padfield This information-packed guide covers virtually everything you need to know to become a safe and efficient helicopter pilot—an ideal supplement to ground school training. Covers basic flight, the principles of rotary-wing aerodynamics, hovering, autorotations and advanced maneuvers such as slope landings, operations from a confined area, and high-altitude operations. Black and white illustrations, approx. 355 pages, paperback.
Rotorcraft Flying Handbook
—FAA. Designed as a technical manual for applicants preparing for their private, commercial, or flight instructor pilot certificates with a helicopter or gyroplane class rating. Covers aerodynamics, flight controls, systems, performance, flight maneuvers, emergencies and aeronautical decision making. FAA-H-8083. Color illustrations, approx. 185 pages, paperback. (ASA part #8083-21)
Helicopter Oral Exam Guide
Written to help prepare applicants for their oral exams with FAA examiners. Using a question-and-answer format, each Oral Exam Guide lists the questions most likely to be asked by examiners and provides succinct, ready responses. Pilots will find these Guides indispensable tools in both planning for what to expect during the airplane checkride, and mastering the subject matter. Instructors rate them as excellent preparation for students, as well as preps for Instrument Proficiency Checks (IPCs), aircraft transitions, and as general refresher. Approx. 184 pages, author Dale.
Private Pilot Rotorcraft-Helicopter Gyroplane Test Standards
ASA reprints the most current FAA Practical Test Standards (PTS) in this series of handy cockpit-sized guides. ASA’s Private Pilot Rotorcraft Practical Test Standards book includes both Section 1 (for Helicopter) and Section 2 (for Gyroplane).
The PTS guide students, instructors, and FAA-designated examiners through checkrides. Every PTS details the skill and knowledge that must be demonstrated before an examiner can issue a certificate or rating to an applicant. Written by the FAA, these books list the knowledge and experience prerequisites, the levels of skill that must be demonstrated before an examiner can issue a certificate or rating to an applicant, and describe background study and reference materials. Approx. 30 pages.
(ASA part #8081-15A)
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