Helicopter Flight Instructor Manual  
CONTENTS
Exercise Page i PART I
Principles and Methods of Instruction
  1 Introduction
   PART II
  37 Ground and Air Instruction Exercises
01 Helicopter familiarisation 41 
02 Preparation for flight 43 
03 Effect of controls 45 
04 Power and attitude changes and straight level flight 47 
05 Climbing, descending and turning 49 
06 Hovering 51 
07 Take-off and landing to/from hover 53 
08 Air/ground taxi and spot turns 55 
09 Sideways and rearwards flight 57 
10 Engine failure in hover or hover taxi 59 
11 Transitions 61 
12 The circuit 63 
13 Entry to autorotation 65 
14 Power terminated and touchdown autorotations 67 
15 Autorotative variables 69 
16 Emergencies 71 
17 Steep turns 73 
18 Practise forced landings 75 
19 Quick stops 77 
20 Sloping ground 79 
21 Limited power / maximum performance  
 and steep approaches 81 
22 Confined areas 85 
23 Low level operations 89 
24 Navigation 91 
25 Hazards 93 
26 Practical loading and maximum weight operations 95 
27 Sling-load operations 97 
28 Mountain flying awareness 99 

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PART 1
PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
This part outlines and discusses the various methods and techniques that have proven to be effective for use in the flying training environment.