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Flight Instructor Manual (Helicopter)

It is important for flying instructors to have available to them a basic guide to elementary flying training. For the first time CASA is publishing one such guide for the rotary wing sector.

This document is being published as Version 1 of the Flight Instructor Manual - Helicopter to allow industry to use, review and provide feedback as appropriate.

Flight Instructor Manual (Helicopter) cover Flight Instructor Manual (Helicopter) – Issue 1 1.4 Mb Acrobat file

Contents list

Part I
Principles and Methods of Instruction

Introduction

Part II
Ground and Air Instruction Exercises

  1. Helicopter Familiarisation
  2. Preparation for flight
  3. Effect of controls
  4. Air speed and power changes straight and level flight
  5. Climbs and descent
  6. Turns
  7. Hovering
  8. Take-off and landing
  9. Hovering exercises
  10. Sideways and Rearwards flight
  11. Engine failure at the hover or hover taxi
  12. Transitions
  13. The circuit
  14. Autorotation
  15. Emergencies
  16. Steep turns
  17. Practice forced landings
  18. Quick stops
  19. Sloping ground
  20. Advanced take-offs and landings
  21. Confined areas
  22. Low level operations
  23. Navigation
  24. Vortex ring
  25. Practical loading and maximum weight operations
  26. Sling-load operations
 
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