While HTV is busy working on new content, check out some of our old videos from a few years back. Today’s Throwback Thursday is a student’s Helicopter Flight Lesson Day 3 from July 2014.
This video is the third day in a series of flight lessons, following a student from day 1, all the way through solo and onto Private Pilot Helicopter checkride. It covers some pick ups, set downs, hover work, takeoff, traffic patterns, approaches and air taxi, amongst other things. The camera is facing down over the controls on this video.
Watch the full flight training video below:
More Info
Check out the original post (with more background and timestamped notes) and check out the full series of flight lessons to follow along with a student from day 1 to checkride, with full length, unedited cockpit footage with full intercom and radio conversations. This series of 32 training flights will show you what it is like to learn to fly a helicopter, with it’s ups and downs. Each flight lesson builds on the previous, and you can follow along watching the progress and sometimes frustration that comes with trying to fly a helicopter.
Some highlights of the full series:
- First flight
- First solo flight
- Night flights
- Learning the ”dreaded’ autorotation and hover auto
- Cross country flights
- Mock stage checks
- All the maneuvers required to pass a checkride, plus some extras
Feedback
Did the camera facing down help at all in this video? How was your third flight? Things starting to click yet? Getting more confidence on the radios? Use the comments form below, and thanks for your feedback.
