Robinson R-44 Helicopter Ground School Online Training

Welcome to the Robinson R44 Edition to helicopter Online Ground School. This training is based on the Pilot's Operating Handbook. It's also known as the POH and the Rotorcraft Flight Manual. Right at the beginning of the manual there's a subscription service for owners and operators to sign up to get the updates to the manual and then it moves into the general section. In the general section, the contents are introduction, the review of the R44 helicopter, descriptive data, performance data, weight and balance definitions and conversion tables. There's two key points right in the introduction on the one page and the two things I want to point out is assuring the helicopter is an airworthy condition is the responsibility of the owner and the pilot in command is responsible for determining if the helicopter is safe for flight. You're going to see this over and over again. It's going to be on written tests. It'll be a question that will be asked many times by examiners on checkrides. You're going to see this over and over. In the manual. They have a three view chart of the helicopter and showing us some dimensions. The width from skid to skid is 86 inches. Sa.