How To Fly A Helicopter

Learn How To Fly A Helicopter With The CompletePilot Training Course

2011
09.30

If you’ve ever dreamed of getting your Private Pilot License but couldn’t afford the cost of the training, I have found a great deal for you! The ‘Complete Private Pilot Training Course’ from Bruce Hogan is the most economical way to get your full groundschool training and to prepare you for your pilot exam.

The author, Bruce “Flyboy” Hogan has been fascinated by flying ever since he was a little boy. Later on in life he became a commercial pilot for United Airlines where he had the pleasure of flying 10 different aircraft, including a Boeing 747!

Bruce has owned his own flight school for over 10 years and has logged well over 9,000 hours of training other pilots! He has trained private pilots, instrument rated commercial pilots, airline transport pilots and even other flight instructors. He’s trained them all!

He is a certified instructor for both single engine and multi engine aircraft and most importantly to this website…he’s been a Certified Helicopter Flight Instructor since 1998!

Bruce got tired of seeing people paying way too much money for their flight training and he decided to do something about it. He remembers how he felt as a young boy with a love of flying and a sense of adventure. He hated seeing other young people get their dreams of flying crushed because they couldn’t afford the high cost of training.

He took all of his training knowledge and over the next 4 years (4 years!!) he created the CompletePilot Flight Training System. It’s designed as a 30 day crash course to help you attain you private pilot license. It’s a complete ground school course at a fraction of the cost of traditional schools.

If you want all the details of this course, click through on one of the links in this article, but here is a brief overview of what’s included in this ground-breaking training course:

FAA and JAR exam study packs with 26,000 Q&As, private pilot syllabus tests and cheat sheets and study guides!
A full helicopter and fixed wing private pilot course that includes manuals, handbooks and groundschool training
Comprehensive fixed-wing, flex-wing and helicopter pilot tutorial training manuals for JAA, FAA, JAR and CAA pilot training
A ground school course with over 2,000 illustrated pages of flight training manuals

This course is delivered through downloadable textbooks, manuals, study guides and tests as well as videos that you can watch online. It truly is packed with tons of training from one of the best flight instructors in the country.

This flight training course is great even if you aren’t seriously interested in getting your pilot’s license, but just want to learn more about flying and see the training that pilots do go through. Or maybe you want to fly but don’t know where to begin? (Hint…this course is where you begin!)

If you want to see what flight training and flying is all about or if you’re currently in a traditional school and want to use this course to give you an edge over the other students, there are many different reasons and uses for this course.

And Bruce priced this training course so ridiculously low that I’m not even going to tell you here in this article what the price is. I want you to click through to the site for the training course, see everything that’s included and then see his price. You will be shocked at how inexpensive this is!

So, the bottom line is this…if you have any desire whatsoever to get your pilot’s license or are interested in the pilot training, the CompletePilot Training Course is a no-brainer! I encourage you to click through and check it out right now, before you forget about it and miss out.

Best of luck!

-Mike Francis

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Understanding Basic Helicopter Controls

2011
09.26

The helicopter is one of the hardest aircraft to learn how to fly. The reason is that you have four basic helicopter controls that you have to maintain all at the same time. I will give a basic description of each of the controls and explain what it is that they do. In this way you will have a small bit of understanding of just how challenging it is to learn to fly this type of air craft.

The first control is the cyclic stick, sometime just called the cyclic or stick. This control is located between the pilot’s legs and controls the pitch or feathering angle of the blades thus changes the angle of attack and will cause the helicopter to move in the direction of the pitch change. The change in blade pitch is changed one blade at a time at the location where the control information is received from the cyclic stick.

The next control is the collective and it is located on the left side of the pilot’s seat within easy reach of the pilot’s left hand. The collective changes the pitch of all of the rotor’s blades collectively or simultaneously without regard to their location. This causes an increase or decrease in the lift from all of the blades of the rotor at the same time. This causes a climb or descent with the helicopter leaned forward, the nose lowered, to produce acceleration together with a certain amount of lift.

The pedals are located on the floor in the same place as the rudder pedals of an airplane and are called anti-torque pedals. These pedals control the amount of pitch and thrust from the tail rotor blades. This change will cause the helicopter to turn right or left in the direction of the pressure on the pedal. By mechanically changing the pitch of the rotor in the tail it alters the amount of thrust produced and causes the nose of the helicopter to turn in that direction.

The throttle is located on the collective and maintains enough engine power to keep the rotors speed within the limits required to produce lift or flight. The helicopter blades must operate with in a specific rotational speed and it is the throttle that controls the power from the engine to maintain the proper blade rotational speed. The throttle is like a throttle on a motorcycle and is a twist grip. The pilot operates the throttle with the same hand that he controls the collective.

As you can see the basic helicopter controls do simple things but it is complicated by the fact that all of the controls must be maintained by the pilot at the same time that they read their instruments, look around visually, and carry on any conversation either on the radio or†with someone in the craft with them.

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How to Become a Helicopter Pilot – the basics

2011
09.24

Your reason for wanting to learn how to become a helicopter pilot may be to get a private rotor craft pilot license or to pursue a career as a professional helicopter pilot. Whatever your goal is for wanting to fly a helicopter, it’s never too late to get started. Flying a helicopter can be an amazing, intense, and sometimes challenging endeavor; however, it’s also a lot of fun. There are some requirements you must meet in order to fly a helicopter which will involve hard work, commitment and determination on your part.

There are usually two options for a career path when you learn how to become a helicopter pilot : A military career and a civilian career. When it comes to the license requirements in learning to fly a helicopter, all professionals involved in this type of flying must have a Commercial Rotorcraft License. Most helicopter flyers also possess a CFI (Certificated Flight Instructor’s) credentials as well as an instrument rating. The order by which you will get your helicopter license includes a procession such as student, private, commercial, and CFI. You will most likely get your instrument rating between the private and commercial portions of your training. The instrument rating is not required for some types of employment; however, it is becoming an essential benefit and even a requirement for some top-paying jobs because it is perceived to make individuals better pilots.

All levels of licensure for flight training involve getting flight and ground training. From the very beginning as a student pilot you will be required to pass a FAA medical test given by a physician who is FAA approved. As you learn how to become a helicopter pilot, you must first have a healthy body and you will also have your vision and hearing tested. Although you don’t have to have 20/20 vision to be a pilot, your vision must be able to reach a certain level of correction when lenses are used. As a pilot, color perception is essential. When considered as a pilot, your background will also be checked for areas such as psychological disorders, drug abuse, heart problems, or anything that may hinder your flying ability.

There are some FFA flight time requirements in place for all levels of licenses. When you are pursuing a private pilot’s license, you will be required to have 10 hours of solo and 20 hours of dual instruction. However, most people getting their private pilot’s license usually complete 30 to 5o hours of dual instruction. For a commercial rotorcraft license, you will be required to have a minimum of 150 hours and 100 Pilot of Command (PIC) time. You will earn your Pilot of Command time by flying solo in order to get your private license in addition to the time afterwards when acting as a helicopter pilot.

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