learning to Fly Helicopters. Learn to fly. Aircraft pilot.

To learn to fly a helicopter costs tens of thousands of dollars. So learn first in the simulator for ALMOST FREE  step by step instructions and exercises and see if you really have got what it takes to land on an oil rig at sea. You will need your own PC, a flight sim program and flight controllers.

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The helicopter is a rotor craft. normally there is a main rotor and a tail rotor. The Tail rotor is connected to the rudder pedals. The main rotor has 2 controllers. The raising and lowering of the collective lever increases and decreases the angle of attack of the main rotor blades resulting in the helicopter going up or down. The joystick is known as the cyclic pitch, this is connected to a swash plate on the rotor head which means you can tilt the spinning rotor disk in the direction you push the joystick and the helicopter will go that way.

The helicopter is a rotor craft. normally there is a main rotor and a tail rotor. The Tail rotor is connected to the rudder pedals. The main rotor has 2 controllers. The raising and lowering of the collective lever increases and decreases the angle of attack of the main rotor blades resulting in the helicopter going up or down. The joystick is known as the cyclic pitch, this is connected to a swash plate on the rotor head which means you can tilt the spinning rotor disk in the direction you push the joystick and the helicopter will go that way.

Give yourself a break from hovering, go for a little fly.

Give yourself a break from hovering, go for a little fly.

Hovering can be very stressful at first so give yourself a bit of a break, fly off for 5 mins and find somewhere else to land.

Raising the nose on the helicopter will reduce the speed, so to climb onto higher ground you need to keep the nose down and increase the collective angle.

Raising the nose on the helicopter will reduce the speed, so to climb onto higher ground you need to keep the nose down and increase the collective angle.

If you land on a dusty site clouds of dust will be thrown up by you main rotor wash. dust sand small stones can be blown around and possibly be sucked into the engine air intake.

Landing on a beach the approach should be made from the sea especially id there are houses near the beach. Try not to upset people, most of them are ok but there are always bitter and jealous people who will take great delight in reporting you for some rule or other.

We noticed on the map there are a few small islands and we decide to fly out to them and see if there is anywhere to land.

Returning from the island, fly on down the coast and try to practice locating sites and landings.

Now start venturing up and down some of the valleys looking for landing places then come back to the coast.

A long old climb to the top of the mountain.

Try this exercise with the wind on and off.

Turning a fast moving helicopter in a hurry.

Now you are getting good with the helicopter and lots of pilots are tempted to go low over peoples houses. Please don't do it. You will be arrested.

During World War II, the island was the scene of the famous Battle of Crete in May 1941. The initial 11-day battle was bloody and left more than 11,000 soldiers and civilians killed or wounded. As a result of the fierce resistance from Allied forces and Cretan locals, Adolf Hitler forbade further large-scale paratroopoperations. During the initial and subsequent occupation, German firing squads routinely executed male civilians in reprisal for the death of German soldiers; civilians were rounded up randomly in local villages for the mass killings, such as at the Massacre of Kondomari and the Viannos massacres. Two German generals were later tried and executed for their roles in the killing of 3,000 of the island's inhabitants.

There is also a video documentary of Crete in World War II titled The 11th Day: Crete 1941

You don't need to follow my exact route but go off into this area and just fly about low level in high ground and look for landing sites.

You don't need to follow my exact route but go off into this area and just fly about low level in high ground and look for landing sites.

Basic intro to the fact that helicopters have a rotor clutch which needs to be engaged before take off and after landing. Consult flight manual on whichever helicopter you are flying.

We are now thinking of the helipad on the oil rig and need to sharpen our working area for landings.

We are now thinking of the helipad on the oil rig and need to sharpen our working area for landings.

Tight landing among obstacles.

Need to crack this now consistently before we move to the oil rig.

If you think you are ready lets go find an oil rig. You can try the first landing with the wind off but be sure to do at least one with it turned on.

Congratulations you have passed the course. Now all you have to do is take off backwards and fly home.

If you have made it to this level you certainly have what it takes to become a helicopter pilot. Now all you need is loads of money.

Take off from Skydive Dubai, land 1000ft up on the tower hotel helipad to pickup client and fly her to a gate at Dubai international airport.

Tour of Dubai international airport, air-side 100ft. X-plane 11

Things to do in Las Vegas, the world is your oyster as a helicopter pilot.

Around the "Top Gear" track at Dunsfold by Helicopter. Popular British TV show featuring cars of various types.

Things look different after dark. Hover around the airport and find some places to land avoiding obsticals.

Aircraft carriers are moving forwards so you are landing at 20 to 30 knots.

Aircraft carriers are moving forwards so you are landing backwards at 20 to 30 knots. TRY IT.

The Historic Rock of Gibraltar at dawn. Fly around it in real time weather and put the helicopter back where you started.

Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 British Metrocolor World War II action film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, filmed in Panavision, and shot on location in Austria and Bavaria. Alistair MacLean wrote the screenplay, his first, at the same time that he wrote the novel of the same name. Both became commercial successes.

In this film we fly south from Salzburg land near the castle from the film, The castle – Hohenwerfen Castle, Werfen, Austria; then carry on down to LOWZ a grass airfield in the alps.

If you over pitch the helicopter the blades will start to stall and the aircraft will sink. You must lower the collective to regain control, raising it further will crash the aircraft.

UH-1 is a great classic helicopter to fly.

It takes about 6 hours to crack how to fly a helicopter, and a lifetime to master. Don't just do it BE THE BEST.

My fav helicopter the free download of the 5 million dollar Bell 429.

The S-76 is fantastic to fly for free in VR.