Harry Helicopter training syllabus is aimed at people busy or starting with their initial helicopter pilot training (Private Pilot License). By way of an eBook it explains every training sequence as found in a typical helicopter training syllabus.

- Are you thinking of starting your helicopter private pilot training and would you like more information on helicopter training syllabus and what it entails?

- Do you know what preparation is needed before a training sequence?

- Are you busy with your helicopter training? Do you know why you do a specific training sequence in a typical syllabus?

- Do you know what the aim is of a specific sequence as found in a typical helicopter training syllabus?

- Do you know which aerodynamic aspects are related to a specific training sequence?

- Are you struggling with a specific sequence in the training syllabus and you don’t know why and would you like some advice?

- Are you a new flight instructor? Looking for some training advice based on a helicopter training syllabus? Would you like some examples of common training mistakes students make?

The following is an example of a typical Helicopter Training Syllabus:

HELICOPTER TRAINING SYLLABUS

Sequence

1. Familiarisation with helicopter }
2. Preparation for flight and action after flight }
3. Air Experience }
4. Effect of controls in forward flight
5. Attitude and power changes
6. Straight and level flight, climbing and descending
7. Medium turns
8. Basic hover in ground effect
9. Take-off and landing
10. Hover and Taxi
11. Transitions
12. Vortex ring state
13. Basic autorotation
14. Circuits
15. Abnormal and emergency procedures
16. First solo
17. Consolidation
18. Advanced hovering and manoeuvring
19. Precision transitions
20. Steep turns
21a. Quick stops
21b. Tight circuits
22. Advanced autorotation
23. Limited power operations
24. Out of wind transitions
25. Autorotative approaches and landings
26. Power off landings
27. Slope landings and take-offs
28. Confined area and out-of-ground effect operations
29. Low flying and high altitude familiarization
30. Navigation
31a. Practical flight test prep
31b. Practical flight test

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT IN HARRY’S eBOOK? The following example is sequence 8 in the above Helicopter Training Syllabus:

BASIC HOVER IN GROUND EFFECT

AIM: To teach the student to hold a given position relative to the ground, maintaining constant heading, height and Rrpm.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

We'll find the biggest area in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere, position the helicopter there and hover. Simple.

WHY?

Like they say in the classics: "Flying is heaven but to hover is divine". I guess what makes helicopter flying so intriguing and the reason we want to fly them is the fact that it can hover. Need I say more why we need to hover? Let me put your mind at rest; you might not be able to hover in the first session, but guess what you don’t need to. There are normally a couple of sessions available to hover so there is plenty time.

HOMEWORK:

Ground effect
Tail rotor drift (translating tendency)
Tail rotor roll
Pendular action

COMMON MISTAKES/ADVICE:

For the first session your instructor should show you the effects of controls in the hover as it differs very slightly from the effects in forward flight.

I suggest that you begin with one control at a time!

The collective is normally the easiest. Most of the time we would like to hover in ground effect (IGE) so a lot of students struggle to maintain the desired height for ground effect. Remember we refer to skid height when we talk about our hover height. Especially in the beginning one shouldn’t look at the skids to determine this height, but rather use your peripheral vision to get a feel for the correct height. Over controlling is obviously a common mistake so rather think of it as applying pressures to the collective and not making movements.

In theory if you leave the collective the helicopter should maintain height for quite a while so all the up and down movements that we see in the beginning is self induced. Also remember not to squeeze the throttle too hard as this will prevent the throttle from turning and we might end up with a low Rrpm situation. This stands true whether you fly a helicopter with or without a govenor.

The most common mistake when it gets to the yaw pedals is over controlling or over shooting our reference point (point on the nose in front of you).

It is very important to have your feet in the right position when flying the yaw pedals. I recommend flying the pedals with the ball of your feet and to push your heels outwards to get a better platform for your cyclic arm. Effectively all you need is a pressure on one foot. Assuming we fly a counter rotating helicopter this will be the left foot. So the right foot needs to be like a stopper. When you want to apply right foot pressure rather think of it as releasing the left foot pressure.

When the nose swings and you make the corrective yaw pedal movement remember to release the pressure slightly just as you get to your point on the nose to prevent overshooting. Tenseness on the yaw pedals is obviously a common mistake in the beginning. If you think about it if you apply the left pedal for instance your right foot will sense a pressure under the foot and you will step on the yaw pedal to relieve the pressure, conversely if you apply right pedal your left foot will sense a pressure and you’ll step on the left pedal and so it becomes a vicious circle.

When it comes to the cyclic if I may give you a couple of tips: Fly attitude on the horizon; make small attitude changes; make even smaller cyclic movements (in fact don't move it at all); relax; relax; relax; open your hand a bit (don't squeeze the living s… out of the cyclic grip); if you move stop the helicopter in your present position, don't try to bring it back where you started.

Your primary reference should be the horizon and as you get the hang of it you can bring your scan closer to the helicopter but remember the essence is SCANNING so don’t fixate on a given reference point. Keep moving your eyes. Another way to describe fixating is to say: “you look but you don’t see”. I always tell students your brain is like a computer and your eyes are the medium of information you give the computer. If you just stare at the horizon it’s the only information your brain can interoperate but the more you look around the more information your “computer” can process and the more information there is to work with the calmer (less tense) a person gets.

If you make an attitude change always fly the helicopter back to the hover attitude. In other words if you make a cyclic or for that matter a yaw pedal movement relax or reverse the movement slightly otherwise the attitude change will just get bigger. For example if we move forward we don’t just RAISE the attitude, we select a slightly higher but SPECIFIC attitude. If we select a new specific attitude we’ve got something to work with, but if we just pull back on the cyclic we don’t know how much or how far to pull.

When starting to fly with all three controls for the first time and things go a bit pear shape don’t try and fix everything at the same time because invariably you’ll use the wrong control to stop a particular movement. Calm down and stop (fix) one movement at a time.

© Harry Helicopter Training Syllabus 2008



Harry’s eBook is definitely not there to replace the school Certified Flight Instructor, it’s a training guide offering advice or suggestions.

HARRY’S EBOOK INCLUDES A BONUS CHAPTER: “WHY DO YOU WANT TO GIVE INSTRUCTION” WHICH MIGHT HELP YOUNG PILOTS THINK A BIT ABOUT THEIR MOTIVES FOR WANTING TO GIVE INSTRUCTION.

Harry offers an eight week money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with the content.

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Disclaimer. This web site/eBook cannot guarantee you any flying results based on advice herein. It is purely informative and acts as a training guide.



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