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Learn To Fly Helicopters for Simulator Pilots
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(7 ratings)
43 students

Learn To Fly Helicopters for Simulator Pilots

Confidently fly a helicopter in a simulator using real flight lessons for helicopter training.
Created byHoward Forder
Last updated 5/2025
English

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

Course content

18 sections • 34 lectures • 8h 18m total length

  • Introduction1:37

    Welcome to the course. This short introduction says hello and let's you meet your instructor and course creator.

  • Course Content Overview7:20

    An overview of the modules of this course. A brief description of what you will learn in each module and how they were constructed. Each lesson of this course has a briefing, demonstration, and encouragement for you to try each skill.

  • Which Simulator & Training Helicopter to Use?19:27

    Learn that any home flight simulator would probably work, but also realize that this course is based on the Cabri G2 training helicopter which is the default helicopter in FS2020 and in FS2024. Because everyone has it without paying for it, and it is made for training.  A perfect fit.

  • Helicopter Controls18:29

    Understand the names and the functions of the various controls that real helicopter pilots use. Then, recreate them in your home cockpit for the most realism you can afford.

  • Your Home Cockpit Choices15:20

    A guide to your purchase choices when setting up your home cockpit for helicopter flying. It can be as inexpensive as using your handheld controller, to the upper financial limit of many thousands of dollars for all the helicopter hardware. Howard finishes the lecture with a demonstration of his home-made collective, using a throttle, some plywood and some creativity.

  • Resource Materials Used for This Course17:37
  • Flight Recorder & Little Nav Map14:49

    These two tools will help you in your learning process. Use flight recorder to submit "black box" files of your flights for Howard to view on his simulator, just as you flew it. Use Little Nav Map as a flight planner and moving map. Both are free. Do a web search to find them. 

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.

Who this course is for:

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

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