Exercise 8 - Hovering

GROUND SCHOOL POINTS

Ground Effect

Flight Manual performance charts

  • Hover In Ground Effect
  • Hover Out of Ground Effect

PREPARATORY INSTRUCTION

Aim

For the student to learn how to hover.

Motivation

This is an exercise fundamental to all helicopter operations.

Airmanship

Master Minimum Equipment List/Minimum Equipment List Policy and Procedures Manual - TP 9155

Overview

This manual contains all the relevant information with respect to the philosophy, development and approval of the Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) and Minimum Equipment List (MEL).

A Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) is an approved document created specifically to regulate the dispatch of an aircraft type with inoperative equipment. It establishes the aircraft equipment allowed to be inoperative under certain conditions for a specific type of aircraft and forms the basis for MEL.

Exercise 20 - Navigation

GROUND SCHOOL POINTS

  1. Maps/Charts - symbols, scales, etc.
  2. Computer
  3. Departure and arrival procedures
  4. Track selection - drift lines, increments
  5. NOTAMS
  6. Weather reports and forecasts
  7. Lost procedures
  8. Radio procedures
  9. Publications - VFR Supplement
  10. Aircraft documents
  11. Flight Plans/Notifications

PREPARATORY INSTRUCTION

Aim

For the student to learn how to carry out safe and effective cross-country flights.

Learning

6. No one ever learns except through their own activity and there is, strictly speaking, no such art as teaching, only the art of helping people to learn.

The Instructional Techniques described in this guide suggest actions that can be performed to stimulate student activity. These activities may be mental or physical and it is through this process of directed activity that students learn the skills and knowledge required to become good, safe pilots.