A helicopter instructor explains why nailing normal landings matters before moving to advanced maneuvers. The video walks through the foundational techniques every pilot needs to master first, with practical tips for improving your approach and touchdown.
I guess a question that a lot of people ask all the time is what should we do first on a lesson? What's your warm up? What's your go to?
Mine is always a normal takeoff, a normal landing, every single time. Just to set the pace, see how the helicopter's doing, warm it up. Everything we do starts with a hover, ends with a hover. And then we build everything we learn off that normal approach. We build on steep and shallow. So that's what I do. It's always, it doesn't matter where you come from. Our first flight always go, just show me a normal takeoff and normal landing how you do. And there's not much work at the end either to clean it up. To come to the hover, you really don't have to do anything when you're doing the faster or you're putting a flare on it, then you got to put more inputs and it's harder work doing it this way. You don't even do a hardly anything coming out other than right now I'm pulling a little collective, adding a little bit of left pedal and right to my numbers. Little lazy left pedal guy there. There we go.
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Firstly lesson, what's your warm up? What's your go to?
Mine is always.
