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Learning To Fly Helicopters
MFR Model# 0071808612
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Overview
| "Written in a conversational style thats both fun and easy to read... Even if youre a confirmed fixed-wing pilot and show no rotor-wing tendencies, youll enjoy this book and gain an insight into your brother pilots obsessions." AG-Pilot International. 354 pages, 100 illust., paperback. By Randall Padfield. |
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WARNING: Cancer and Reproductive Harm - www.P65Warnings.ca.gov. |
Specifications
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Copyright Date: 1992
- Pages: 354
- Binding: Paperback
- Weight: 1.2lbs
Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Helicopter Myths
- Basic Aerodynamics
- lift and airfoils
- stalls
- torque and tail rotors
- unconventional helicopter design
- Flight Controls
- the collective
- the throttle
- the cyclic stick
- the tail rotor pedals
- Your First Flight
- before the flight
- baggage
- hearing protection
- boarding the helicopter
- before takeoff briefing
- the flight
- emergencies
- Basic Flight Maneuvers
- straight and level
- pilot induced turbulence
- acceleration / deceleration
- level turns
- normal climbs
- cyclic only climbs
- collective only climbs
- best climb method
- normal descents
- turning climbs and descents
- doing it by the numbers
- Learning To Hover
- the basic hover
- hovering turns
- hovering in the wind
- in and out of ground effect
- More Basic Maneuvers
- takeoff
- approach and landing
- traffic patterns
- quick stops
- Autorotation
- four step aircraft emergency procedure
- practicing autorotations
- closer to the ground
- hovering autorotations
- common errors
- autorotation 180 and 360 degrees
- the dead man's curve
- Advanced Maneuvers
- confined area operations
- slope operations
- maximum performance takeoffs
- pinnacles and ridge operations
- roof-top heliports
- Emergencies
- tail rotor system failures
- tail rotor control failures
- tail rotor drive failures
- main gearbox malfunctions
- engine malfunctions
- fires
- Aircraft Systems
- engines
- main transmission
- clutch and freewheeling unit
- main rotor systems
- rotor blades
- swashplates
- vibration reducing devices
- fuel systems
- electrical systems
- hydraulic systems
- flight instruments
- other systems
- Human Factors and Safety
- psychological baggage
- future problems
- advice to the manufacturers
Reviews
Five Stars excellent book. Very educational and written in a manner that makes reading easy.
Q&A
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