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) – Issue 1 1.4 Mb Acrobat file
Contents list
Part I
Principles and
Methods of Instruction
Introduction
Part II
Ground and Air Instruction Exercises
- Helicopter Familiarisation
- Preparation for flight
- Effect of controls
- Air speed and power changes straight and level flight
- Climbs and descent
- Turns
- Hovering
- Take-off and landing
- Hovering exercises
- Sideways and Rearwards flight
- Engine failure at the hover or hover taxi
- Transitions
- The circuit
- Autorotation
- Emergencies
- Steep turns
- Practice forced landings
- Quick stops
- Sloping ground
- Advanced take-offs and landings
- Confined areas
- Low level operations
- Navigation
- Vortex ring
- Practical loading and maximum weight operations
- Sling-load operations