SKILL TEST EXAM FLIGHT

Planning & Briefing All steps up to this stage built one huge adventure with many unforgettable memories. And now the final day has arrived. The Exam Flight so-called Skill Test Flight:  Briefing / Navigation / Exercises. First, I get some waypoints for the navigation flight – based on this I have to prepare the Full MATED Brief. Afterward, I explain […]

ALL CHECKS

FREDAT – HASEL – HATFIR – WWWW – WASP – TITS  “Just one page? To fly a helicopter – seriously?” Yes. Seriously. No joke. That’s it.   All Checks needed to properly fly the R22 on PPL(H) Level. BUT, you have to be able to reproduce them at a rate of knots in a handstand, […]

FINE-TUNING THE PUZZLE

The Repetition Summary Briefing Again, it all starts on the ground. Today, my instructor starts with a whiteboard full of shortcuts. Every abbreviation stands for one exercise. It’s the full PPL(H) Training – the same as the Skill Test Programm – without navigation. During training I rarely took any notes, usually, I tried to directly memorize […]