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 5 from December 2014.
This video is the fifth day in a series of flight lessons, following a student from day 1, all the way through solo and onto Private Pilot Helicopter checkride. This flight continues to build on the basics from the first few flights – allowing the student to get a feel for the controls while covering takeoff, approach, patterns and ground reference maneuvers.
Watch the full flight training video below:
More Info
Check out the original post (with 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
How were your first ground reference maneuvers? How do you teach them? Use the comments form below, and thanks for your feedback.
