Thanks! I did have a lot of memory motor mechanisms I had to change from airplane flying to helicopter flying! For instance, in an airplane, you pull the power to idle, and then flare the nose a little bit to land, and in a helicopter you add power and push the nose forward a bit. Just small crash worthy details like that!! Lol..
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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Flying a helo in shorts: Nice!
What kind of maneuvers do they make you do?
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Everything was straight out of the PTS handbook. (FAA practical test standards). Pretty much went like this:
2 hour paperwork prep and oral exam, then:
preflight procedures/ checklist usage
normal t/o
normal appr and land
max performance t/o
steep appr
hover autorotation
quick stop
slope landing/pickup
straight in autorotation
180 autorotation
confined area
pinnacle appr/land
settling with power
low RPM recovery
shut down procedures
Maybe forgetting something, and I'm sure I sweated out at least 20lbs!