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    Flying Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Beyond the PPL: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #2
    Flying Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Beyond the PPL: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #2
    Flying Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Beyond the PPL: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #2
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    Flying Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Beyond the PPL: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #2

    By Helen Krasner

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    This book is the second volume of Helen's proposed series of four. The first looked at learning to fly aeroplanes and helicopters and has already been published. The next book will concentrate of helicopter flying, since this is Helen's speciality, and the final volume will talk about her personal experiences as a helicopter instructor. All of them are taken from Helen's column in Flight Training News, and were originally published between 2006 and 2011

    This second book starts by discussing what sort of flights a new pilot should do after gaining the coveted PPL. It then tells the story of one of Helen's longer trips, when she took off alone for France. The next two articles – Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Rules for Safe Coexistence and The Dangers of Helicopter Downwash are concerned with important safety issues. We then take a look at flying microlights as well as fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, followed by gaining some hints on dealing with the CAA Medical department. The final four chapters should be useful to those considering a commercial aviation career, although also of general interest. They discuss how to question an apparently unfair exam result, what to do with your commercial licence, the place of women in commercial aviation, and fixed-wing versus rotary flying careers.

    Helen Krasner has been flying for many years, and holds a Commercial Helicopter Pilot's Licence and Instructor's Rating. She also has a Private Pilot's Licence for Aeroplanes, and well over 1000 hours flying time in total. Until recently she worked as a freelance helicopter instructor, flying mainly R22s and R44s.

    Helen writes about helicopters and other aviation-related subjects for a number of publications and websites, and she is also the former Newsletter Editor for the BWPA (British Women Pilots' Association). She was nominated for one of the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004, for an article about Flying Helicopters in Russia. She has published two books about helicopter flying apart from her Kindle ebooks – The Helicopter Pilot's Companion (Crowood Press 2008), and Flying Helicopters: A Companion to the PPL(H) (Crowood Press 2011). Helen has also written and published a book about a five thousand mile walk around Britain which she undertook some years ago (Midges, Maps, and Muesli).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHelen Krasner
    Release dateJan 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301470754
    Flying Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Beyond the PPL: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #2
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    Helen Krasner

    Helen Krasner worked as a helicopter instructor for several years, instructing for various flying schools on Robinson R22s and R44s. She has also flown a large number of other helicopter types, held a private pilot's licence for aeroplanes, and has had a go at flying microlights, gliders, and balloons. Helen has been writing professionally for many years and contributes regularly to a number of aviation publications. She was nominated for an Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in 2004, for an article about flying helicopters in Russia. She has also had several books published, both print and ebooks, mainly – though not exclusively – on aviation related topics. She is also a former Newsletter Editor for the BWPA (British Women Pilots' Association). You can find out more about Helen, including details of all of her books, on her website, helenkrasner.com.com.

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      Flying Aeroplanes and Helicopters - Helen Krasner

      Flying Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Beyond The PPL

      (Collected Articles From Flight Training News, 2006-2011, Vol II)

      By Helen Krasner

      Published by Helen Krasner at Smashwords

      Copyright Helen Krasner 2011

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

      Preface

      In 2006 Helen Krasner started writing a regular column in the monthly publication Flight Training News. She contributed informative but lighthearted articles on all aspects of flying, for the most part drawing on her own experience, and almost invariably peppered with useful anecdotes from her own extensive flying. To date she has written over 50 of these articles, and various people have commented on how useful they have been, and also remarked that they would make an excellent book. Hence the idea of putting them together in book form.

      This book is the long-awaited second volume of Helen’s proposed series of four on flying different aircraft types. The first looked at learning to fly aeroplanes and helicopters, and was published in April 2011. The next book will concentrate of helicopter flying, since this is Helen’s speciality, and the final volume will talk about her personal experiences as a helicopter instructor. All of them are taken from Helen’s column in Flight Training News, and were originally published between 2006 and 2011

      This second book starts by discussing what sort of flights a new pilot should do after gaining the coveted PPL. It then tells the story of one of Helen’s longer trips, when she took off alone for France. The next two articles – Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Rules for Safe Coexistence and The Dangers of Helicopter Downwash are concerned with important safety issues. We then take a look at flying microlights as well as fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, followed by gaining some hints on dealing with the CAA Medical department. The final four chapters should be useful to those considering a commercial aviation career, although also of general interest. They discuss how to question an apparently unfair exam result, what to do with your commercial licence, the place of women in commercial aviation, and fixed-wing versus rotary flying careers.

      Helen Krasner has been flying for many years, and holds a Commercial Helicopter Pilot's Licence and Instructor's Rating.  She also has a Private Pilot’s Licence for Aeroplanes, and well over 1000 hours flying time in total.  Until recently she worked as a freelance helicopter instructor, flying mainly R22s and R44s.

      Helen writes about helicopters and other aviation-related subjects for a number of publications and websites, and she is also the former Newsletter Editor for the BWPA (British Women Pilots’ Association). She was nominated for one of the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004, for an article about Flying Helicopters in Russia. She has published two books about helicopter flying apart from her Kindle ebooks – The Helicopter Pilot’s Companion (Crowood Press 2008), and Flying Helicopters: A Companion to the PPL(H) (Crowood Press 2011). Helen has also written and published a book about a five thousand mile walk around Britain which she undertook some years ago (Midges, Maps, and Muesli). All of these are available on Amazon.

      If you enjoy this book, look out for the next two, or contact Helen at helenkrasner2@gmail.com, and she will let you know when they are to be published.

      Contents

      Chapter One: First Flights After the PPL

      Chapter Two: Solo Trip to France

      Chapter Three: Dual Flying in France

      Chapter Four: Aeroplanes and Helicopters: Rules for Safe Coexistence

      Chapter Five: The Dangers of Helicopter Downwash

      Chapter Six: Too Many Control Systems Equals Overload

      Chapter Seven: A Tale of Aviation Medicals

      Chapter Eight Hour Building Ideas

      Chapter Nine: Querying Exam Results

      Chapter Ten: CPL(H) – What Now?

      Chapter Eleven: Women in Commercial Aviation

      Chapter Twelve: Rotary v Fixed-Wing: Which Type of Pilot do You Want to be?

      Glossary

      Chapter One: First Flights After The PPL

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      Every year a number of student pilots gain PPLs, having put in a huge amount of time, money, and effort in order to do so. Yet surprisingly, some of these new pilots never fly again. Even out of those who continue, a substantial proportion give up aviation very soon. Statistics vary, but it is estimated that in the UK over half of all private pilots abandon flying within five years of getting their licence.

      Of course, there may be a number of practical reasons for this. For some people, getting the PPL was the ultimate aim. It was a challenge and a burning ambition – and they’ve achieved it. They have no desire to go any further - and there’s nothing wrong with that. For others, work, family, or other time commitments get in the way, and often such people will return to aviation later in life. Finally, many people are strapped for cash after gaining a pilot’s licence in a relatively short time, and they too are likely to return to flying when they can afford it.

      But for other new pilots, I suspect the reason for abandoning aviation is that they don’t really know what to do next. The PPL course is incredibly structured. The instructor decides what you are going to do next and where you are going to go. It’s all laid out in black and white, and to a certain extent, the student doesn’t have to think for himself…although of course there’s plenty to think about anyway when you’re learning to fly! But when you finally get that coveted licence, suddenly you’re on your own. So, what now?

      Some new pilots are understandably very lacking in confidence at this early stage. They really don’t know what to do, or how to organise their flying, or who to ask about it. They’re supposed to have learned during their training about airmanship, and captaincy, and decision-making, and all that good stuff. But in practice there really wasn’t time to learn more than basic flying skills and all the other practical things like navigation and radio use which they needed to know. What went on in the pilot’s head tended to take second place.

      So such new pilots frequently do very little. They

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