Learn To Fly Helicopters For Simulator Pilots

Confidently fly a helicopter in a simulator using real flight lessons for helicopter training.

What you'll learn

Basic techniques for handling any helicopter

Perform real helicopter flying skills

How to obtain and interpret the flying handbook for each helicopter

Handling views and assesement criteria for the helicopter simulator pilot

Requirements

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024 (other sims will do, but you can't submit homework)

Description

If you have ever pursued helicopter lessons from your local helicopter flying school, you would know that it costs a whole lot more per hour for a helicopter and instructor than fixed-wing lessons. You would spend thousands of dollars in real helicopters.  Why not lget an insight and help all along the way in a home flight simulator? Here in this course, you get the same lessons all for one low price. Howard guides you through the complete course including your controls, settings, techniques, basic skills, and then on to emergencies and other helicopters. We start out in the trainer helicopter, the Cabri G2 through most of the course.  This is the default helicopter in MSFS or FS2020/2024. IIt is made for training and it has a native helicopter flight model.  You learn to handle this in every phase of flight. Then you graduate to bigger and more powerful helicopters. Howard will demonstrate a variety of helicopters available in Microsoft's Flight Simulator that you can fly, both free and payware. The skills you learn here can be used in any flight simulator, but demonstrations and pictures are taken of the Cabri G2. When you are done, you will confidently handle any helicopter you wish to fly in a flight simulator.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Course Content Overview

Lecture 3 Which Simulator & Training Helicopter to Use?

Lecture 4 Helicopter Controls

Lecture 5 Your Home Cockpit Choices

Lecture 6 Resource Materials Used for This Course

Lecture 7 Flight Recorder & Little Nav Map

Section 2: Lesson 1: Light on the Skids

Lecture 8 Light on the Skids

Section 3: Lesson 2: Hovering and Landing

Lecture 9 Hovering and Landing

Section 4: Lesson 3: Moving Forward

Lecture 10 Moving Forward and Stopping

Section 5: Lesson 5: Turning

Lecture 11 Turning While Hovering

Section 6: Lesson 6: The Engine Instruments

Lecture 12 Engine Instruments and Flying Instruments

Section 7: Lesson 7 and 8: Take off Procedure and Working With Wind

Lecture 13 Takeoff Procedure with Wind

Section 8: Lesson 9: Exact Airspeed

Lecture 14 Exact Airspeed Travel

Section 9: Lesson 10: Exact Climbs and Descents

Lecture 15 Exact Climbs and Descents

Section 10: Lesson 11: Cruise Turning

Lecture 16 Cruise Turning

Section 11: Lesson 12: Landing & Shutdown

Lecture 17 Landing Properly and Cold & Dark Shutdown

Section 12: Lesson 13: Startup Cold & Dark

Lecture 18 Startup Cold and Dark

Section 13: Lesson 14: AutoRotatoin (Engine Out)

Lecture 19 Emergency - Engine Out!

Lecture 20 Advanced Topics - Emergencies

Section 14: Lesson 15: Airport Circuits and Heliports

Lecture 21 Airport Circuits for Helicopters

Lecture 22 Finding and Landing on Heliports

Section 15: Lesson 16: Flight Test Preparation

Lecture 23 Your Cross Country Sample with Preparations

Lecture 24 The Cross Country Demonstration

Lecture 25 Final Assignment

Section 16: Lesson 17: Other Helicopters

Lecture 26 Other Helicopters in MSFS

Lecture 27 The Mini 500 Lecture and Demonstration

Lecture 28 The Robinson Family of Helicopters and R22 Demonstration

Lecture 29 The Miltech Chinook CH47 Dual Rotor Helicopter

Lecture 30 Electric Hovercraft in MSFS

Lecture 31 A Free Novelty Helicopter in MSFS

Lecture 32 The Shrike Simulations MD 530F Workhorse

Section 17: Homework & Final Remarks

Lecture 33 Homework & Final Remarks

Section 18: Extra Demonstrations & Resources

Lecture 34 Practice with the Cabri at the Golf Course

Simulation pilots using Microsoft Flight Simulator (or other sims) who wish to learn helicopter flying using real flying curriculum