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Flight Training

Maneuvers

  • From the Helicopter Flying Handbook, this chapter presents basic flight maneuvers.

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  • From the Helicopter Flying Handbook, this chapter presents advanced flight maneuvers.

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  • The Ultimate Maneuver Guide is the ultimate tool for helicopter pilots during initial training, checkride prep, or maneuver review. This guide covers takeoffs, landings, autorotations, off-airports, and more!

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  • This category covers Helicopter Flight Maneuvers at the Private and Commercial level with a few extras at the end. The videos below are unedited footage from inside the cockpit during these maneuvers.

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  • The purpose of this pamphlet is to raise the level of awareness of the Flight Instructor to the possible consequences involved in training students in autorotations. It also provides the Flight Instructor some suggested guidelines and parameters for conducting practice autorotations.

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  • From the United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) - The purpose of this Airmanship Bulletin is to provide specific techniques and procedures to enhance full touchdown autorotation training and safety.

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  • From the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) - Power Failure at Altitude or Forced Landing training is something that we don’t do enough of, and when we do practice, are we doing it properly? Is it best to practice in the aircraft or in the simulator? Are you ready for a real engine failure? Let’s look at some of these questions.

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