Airplane pilots might not think to look towards rotary wing training documents (goodness knows there’s enough reading material about airplanes to last a lifetime) but recently I have been perusing Transport Canada’s Helicopter Flight Training Manual, TP 9982E.<\/p>\n
Some of the content fits into the interesting general knowledge about aviation category, but some is very appropriate to fixed-wing flight too. And some of it I think is even better than the parallel material presented in the Aeroplane Flight Training Manual, the purple book, that all fixed wing student pilots in Canada have to use.<\/p>\n
In particular I really like the chapter on cross country navigation (Exercise 20) and the chapter on instrument flight (Excercise 30). The latter does a really good presentation of the ideas of control instruments<\/strong> and performance instruments<\/strong>, and the selective radial scan<\/strong> technique for flying on instruments. These are the words I use when teaching instrument flights to prospective fixed wing pilots too. <\/p>\n Naturally some of the words need translation (for helicopter, read airplane) and a few paragraphs are less relevant (knowing a Robinson R22 requires approximately 20 inches of Manifold Pressure in cruse at 80 knots, goes into the background knowledge folder) but overall I like what it says.<\/p>\n Although I purchased a copy from an aviation bookstore, the good news is that unlike the airplane manual, the helicopter flight training manual is available as a pdf download from Transport Canada. And I’ve put a copy on my website, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Airplane pilots might not think to look towards rotary wing training documents (goodness knows there’s enough reading material about airplanes to last a lifetime) but recently I have been perusing Transport Canada’s Helicopter Flight Training Manual, TP 9982E. Some of the content fits into the interesting general knowledge about aviation category, but some is very… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-of-interest-to-student-pilots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alecmyersflighttraining.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}