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 6 from November 2015.
This video is the sixth 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 covers autorotation entry, hover autos, vortex ring state (AKA settling with power), traffic patterns & hover work and more.
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 auto entry or introduction to vortex ring state? How do you teach those maneuvers? Use the comments form below, and thanks for your feedback.
