Flight 06; Plum Island and Back

by Philip Greenspun; revised March 2006

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Objective

The student has been spending a lot of time hanging around Bedford. This lesson provides a bit of a break in the routine and some practice in navigating on low-altitude cross-country flights in a helicopter. There should be continued development of proficiency in normal and steep approaches.

Elements

Schedule

Completion Standards

The student should be able to navigate without assistance to Lawrence and Plum Island. The student should need only partial assistance to navigate from Plum Island to BED at 1000'. The student should be able to use Direct-To navigation with the GPS mounted in the trainer helicopter.

Student should be able to maintain rotor RPM in the green during governor-off operation. Student should be able to recover from low rotor RPM by simultaneously lowering collective and rolling on throttle.

Evaluation




Reading Assignment

Read Chapters 10 and 11 of the Rotorcraft Flying Handbook.
Text and photos (if any) Copyright 2005-2007 Philip Greenspun.
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