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July 8th, 2009, 19:21
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|  Helicopter Books
Looking to gain some knowledge on Helicopter Flying any suggestions ?
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July 8th, 2009, 20:19
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The FAA's Rotorcraft Flying Handbook is really good.
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July 8th, 2009, 21:14
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I especialy enjoyed Learning to Fly Helicopters Not as indepth on some of the finer theoretical & technical aspects on helicopter flying, but written conversational style and straightforward. If you're into math and the physics of flying helo's, ASA's Principles of Helicopter Flight is good too.
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July 8th, 2009, 23:30
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The Jeppesen book is really good and a lot of schools use it as their curriculum. The section on preflight is pretty much all Schweizer based but over all a good text. Shane
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July 9th, 2009, 02:30
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| Re: Helicopter Books Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
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July 9th, 2009, 02:45
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I read Fatal Traps at least once a year. It still makes me chuckle to read about the accident where someone had a cargo hook on an R22 doing venison recovery. Shane
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July 10th, 2009, 00:14
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 Read that book on a deployment, while OIF wasn't as nearly as bad or intense as Vietnam, it was uncanny how much I could relate to Mason's experience. Also Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills. Thanks to this guy I'm not furloughed and 60k in debt. He owes me a couple pairs of underwear though. | |
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July 22nd, 2009, 12:23
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For non-instructional I would also recommend Nightstalkers and In the Company of Heros, both by Michael Durant. Also To the Limit by Tom A. Johnson.
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October 10th, 2009, 13:15
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I read parts of "The Art and Science of Flying Helicopters" prior to taking the AFAST a few years ago. I went to find it a couple days ago (now that I am in flight school) only to realize that a USED copy of it (as it is out of print) runs $80-$90. Ouch. Same author wrote an updated version from what I've learned. It is called "Cyclic and Collective" I think I'll be checking that one out. The Durant books are great!
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