This is the twenty seventh training flight in a series following a student through his flight training from day 1 to checkride in an R22.
More practice to bring maneuvers up to checkride requirements and build safe aeronautical decision making. Some highlights of this lesson:
- Running landings
- Off airport operations
- Steep approach
- Max performance takeoff
- Autorotations
- Hover work – pirouettes
- Hover autos
Below the video are time-stamped notes/tips for the flight.
NOTES/TIPS:
04:00 normal approach
08:30 running landing
10:00 “say again”
16:00 running landing
18:15 “line up and wait”
19:15 straight in autorotation
24:30 don’t bump/bounce the cyclic
25:00 straight in autorotation (thermals)
28:30 straight in autorotation
38:15 off airport
45:00 go around due to requiring too much power
48:00 use “last call at Bend, say again” to verify position reports
49:50 giving way to traffic already in the traffic pattern
50:15 aim midfield if thermals at the approach end of runway
50:50 straight in autorotation – thermals still making it hard to learn
53:20 demonstration of steep approach
57:00 air taxi & quickstop
59:20 discussion of the expect gust front from the inbound storm
1:00:10 step approach
1:03:10 hover work – pirouettes
1:05:40 working with the glider takeoff opposite direction with good communication
1:06:10 steep approach
1:09:00 air taxi & normal descent to hover
1:10:50 hover autos
1:11:40 aircraft control becoming more instinctive means not having to think so much before making the aircraft do what you want
1:13:50 max performance takeoff
1:16:50 monitor the wind sock – the gust front arrived so abort 180 auto
1:17:00 running landings with air taxi between
1:21:20 demonstration of just the touchdown of running landing
1:22:00 practice running landings from hover
To view all the videos in this series, check out this YouTube playlist of all the Flight Training Sessions (Full-Length Unedited)
