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    All About Flying Helicopters: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #3
    All About Flying Helicopters: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #3
    All About Flying Helicopters: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #3
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    All About Flying Helicopters: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #3

    By Helen Krasner

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    This is the third collection of articles from flying instructor Helen Krasner's popular column in the publication "Flight Training News". Written at various times over the period 2006 - 2011, this book is aimed at anyone who is interested in helicopter flying, but should be particularly useful for helicopter flight students, people who have a helicopter pilot's licence and fly as a leisure activity, or those are aiming to get a helicopter commercial pilot's licence in the future. This book consists of 12 articles, has well over 20,000 words, and includes a useful glossary. Topics covered include flying helicopters in marginal weather, flying different helicopter types, and becoming a professional helicopter pilot and/or instructor.

    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. She has written a large number of books about flying, both traditional print books and ebooks.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHelen Krasner
    Release dateJan 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301386949
    All About Flying Helicopters: Collected Articles From Flight Training News 2006-2011, #3
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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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      All About Flying Helicopters - Helen Krasner

      All About Flying Helicopters

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

      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 well 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 third volume of Helen’s 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 second was concerned with flying light aircraft after obtaining the PPL, and came out in September 2011. The fourth volume will talk about Helen’s personal experiences as a helicopter instructor, and give some hints for new instructors. All of them are taken primarily from Helen’s column in Flight Training News, and were originally published between 2006 and 2011

      This third book does exactly what it says in the title – it tells you all about flying helicopters, which is what Helen has been doing for many years. It begins with articles about specific and often difficult aspects of flying small helicopters – Helicopter Navigation, Flying Helicopters in Marginal Weather, and Helicopter Night Flying. Next come some personal experience type articles – Flying the London Helicopter Routes, Flying Different Helicopter Types, and A Helicopter Pilot’s Cautionary Tale. Finally we have some articles for aspiring professional helicopter pilots and instructors.

      Helen 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 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). You can find details of all these on Helen’s website www.must-fly.com.

      If you enjoy this book, look out for the final one, or contact Helen at helenkrasner2@gmail.com, and she will let you know when it is to be published.

      Contents

      Chapter One: Helicopter Navigation

      Chapter Two: Flying Helicopters in Marginal Weather

      Chapter Three: Helicopter Night Flying

      Chapter Four: Helicopter Photo Flights…and Simulating a Wind Farm!

      Chapter Five: Flying the London Helicopter Routes

      Chapter Six: Tail Rotor Problems

      Chapter Seven: Flying Different Helicopter Types

      Chapter Eight: A Helicopter Pilot’s Cautionary Tale

      Chapter Nine: The Helicopter Safety Evenings

      Chapter Ten: Becoming a Professional Helicopter Pilot

      Chapter Eleven: Opportunities for Helicopter Pilots

      Chapter Twelve: Becoming a Helicopter Instructor

      Glossary

      Chapter One: Helicopter Navigation

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      Trying to find your way in a small helicopter of the type most private pilots fly is very different from navigation in a light aeroplane. Fixed-wing aircraft are inherently stable; this means that the pilot can take his or her hands off the controls for a short period to look at the map, change radio frequencies, or write something down. But in helicopters it is much more difficult to do this. You cannot let go of the cyclic in most small helicopters for any length of time, and in helicopters like the R22 you cannot let go of it at all. So you have one hand – the left hand – with which you have to do everything apart from the actual flying. Many people find it almost impossible to write with their left hand, and folding maps one-handed just can’t be done. Also, helicopter flying requires constant attention, since most small helicopters cannot be trimmed for level flight. So if you take your eyes and mind off things, you can suddenly find that you have climbed or descended several hundred feet – not a good idea if you happen to be in or near controlled airspace, for example.

      Perhaps it is not surprising, therefore, that most students – and also some low hour pilots – think helicopter navigation is virtually impossible. I remember taking one fairly advanced student on his first trip to a new airfield, and he appeared close to tears when we got back. The apparently impossible juggling act of flying, map reading, and talking on the radio had completely defeated him. It can feel that way when you’re learning to fly fixed-wing aircraft too, but helicopter navigation is harder – and I’ve learned to fly both, so trust me on this! It gets easier with practice, but even after I got my PPL(H) I still struggled, and I remember asking a more experienced pilot how he did it. Fly low and look at the signposts, he told me… and I think he meant it.

      Of course, these days many pilots invest in a GPS as soon as they get their PPL(H), and use it as almost their only means of navigation. But this is not recommended, and it is also unnecessary. For while helicopter navigation is quite challenging, it is really not as difficult as many people think. In fact, in some important ways it is actually easier than in fixed-wing aircraft. Firstly, helicopters can slow down, even come to a high hover if really necessary. So at times of high workload, such as when approaching an unfamiliar landing site, you can fly slowly and give yourself more time. I always tell students that when they’re approaching the airfield they should slow down to around sixty knots, or even less if they have to. This gives them

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