Helicopter Training Online Check-Ride Preparation!

So here we are working with the famous notebook. What I've always done in the past is when I get a guy pretty close to being ready to go, take the checkride. The last thing that I do is get out my notebook and just start going through it and asking questions that I think are examples of questions that the examiners can be asked and how you want to answer them. So let's start right off with density altitude. What is density altitude? Density altitude is pressure altitude corrected for non standard temperature. I know when I first started I had a heck of a time with density altitude and pressure altitude. Pressure altitude is what you get when you dial 29.92 in your Colzman window and then you read your pressure altitude from the altimeter. Next thing we're going to talk about is retreating blade stall. We know getting the first two you want to remember are always the first two. That anytime you're talking about bad performance or helicopter emergencies, any kind of an issue, you always have high gross weight, high density altitude. Those are always the two factors. Anytime somebody asks you what are some factors you think that are involved in that or cause that to happen. High gross weight, high density odds, low rpm, steep abrupt turns and turbulent air. So three things that you're going to notice. You're going to notice an abnormal vibration, a pitch up of the nose and a roll to the left. You'll be impressed. You say the five Cs climb, communicate, confess, comply, conserve. If you think about it, it makes sense. First one is climb. If you start to climb, just even climbing 500ft, you won't believe the difference in where you're at in your altitude wise. You climb up 500ft and go, wow, there's that lake I was looking for, or there's that water tower. Boom. You have what you're looking for. Communicate. Sailing with power. Selling with power. I've heard our examiner say many times as a helicopter pilot, one of the biggest things you need to know about is sailing with power. What are the three things combined together that are going to get you into sailing with power? You need to memorize these and you need to know them. Rated ascent, 300ft per minute or greater using 20 to 100% of power. Airspeed less than ETL. You want to memorize those three things because he's going to ask you and when he says what are the things that are going to be the contributing factors to getting or why you would get insulin with power? Radiuscent 300ft per minute or greater using 20 to 100% of power airspeed less than ETL. Got to memorize it. The question could be if you are doing a out of ground effect hover, you're doing some photo work, you get into selling with power. Can you do an auto rotation to get out of selling with power? The answer is yes, because you're no longer using that 20 to 100%. You're no longer installing the power as long as you have plenty of altitude. Once you lower that collective, you take away the power. You may still be descending, but you're not installing the power anymore.