Private Pilot
Online Ground School
Fulfill your DREAM of becoming a helicopter pilot
Whether it's EMS, Offshore, Corporate, or just a passion, this course will prepare you for that first step!
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Meet Sarah
Sarah has experience flying Offshore, EMS, and Corporate, but her true passion is teaching and sharing the love of flight with others. Spending 10 years as an instructor at Flight Safety International in the AW139 program shows this, and now with So Fly she can bring those lessons learned to the next wave of pilots.
Example Curriculum
Introduction to the course
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Helicopter Aerodynamics
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- Helicopter Aerodynamics- Why is this important to know? (4:10)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics - Part 1 (8:26)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics - Part 2 (9:34)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics - Part 3 (13:25)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : 3 axis of Movement (1:31)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : 4 Forces of Flight (13:19)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Airfoils (7:26)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Rotor Systems (3:46)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Gyroscopic Procession (2:03)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Pendulum Effect (3:13)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Coriolis Effect (6:52)
- Helicopter Aerodynamnics : Ground Effect (4:04)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Dissymmetry of lift (6:12)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Retreating Blade Stall (4:36)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Hovering Flight (6:18)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Hover to ETL (12:59)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness (5:12)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Settling With Power (5:37)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Torque (2:15)
- Helicopter Aerodynamics : Vibrations (5:37)
- Take a practice written with me : Helicopter Aerodynamics (7:45)
- QUIZ - FAA WRITTEN: Section 1 - Helicopter Aerodynamics
Helicopter Systems
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- Helicopter Systems 1.1 (6:42)
- Helicopter Systems 1.2 (7:53)
- Helicopter Systems 1.3 (19:38)
- Helicopter Systems 1.4 (8:54)
- Helicopter Systems 1.5 (9:49)
- Helicopter Systems 1.6 (9:11)
- Helicopter Lesson 1.7 (6:51)
- Helicopter Systems 1.8 (13:55)
- Helicopter Systems 1.9 (6:28)
- Helicopter Systems 1.10 (5:50)
- Helicopter Systems 1.11 (11:27)
- Helicopter Systems - 1.12 (20:13)
- Take a practice written with me : Section 2 - Aircraft Systems : Helicopter Systems (29:54)
- Section 2- Helicopter Systems and Performance
- Scenario Based Training and Practical Application - Helicopter Systems (1:06)
Preflight
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Aircraft lighting
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Reciprocating engines : Lycoming O-360
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- Section 2- Reciprocating engines
- Take a practice written with me: Section 2 -Aircraft Systems: Reciprocating engines -Part 1 (11:43)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 2 -Aircraft Systems: Reciprocating engines -Part 2 (7:40)
- Student interview- checkride prep . What engine is in a R-22? (0:58)
Flight Instruments
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- Take a practice written with me: Section 3 -Flight Instruments: Pitot-Static (1:44)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 3 -Flight Instruments : Airspeed and Airspeed Indicator (1:25)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 3 -Flight Instruments : Altimeter and Altitudes (17:07)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 3 -Flight Instruments : Gyroscopic Instruments (3:29)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 3 -Flight Instruments : Magnetic Compass (6:58)
- QUIZ - Flight Instruments
Helicopter Performance
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- Performance (12:26)
- Performance Plan Example (18:59)
- Weight and Balance (5:49)
- W&B example (20:33)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Density Altitude and Performance (30:57)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Take off distances (4:41)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Landing distances (2:48)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Headwind and Crosswind Component (11:01)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Wake Turbulence (7:35)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Ground Effect (6:19)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Weight and Balance (7:08)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 4 -Aircraft Performance : Weight and Balance Computations (58:03)
- QUIZ- FAA WRITTEN : Section 4 : Aircraft Performance
- WRITTEN test question and answers - Section 4 Performance
Regulations
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Airspace and Airport Operations
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Navigation
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- Navigation Overview (14:42)
- VFR Charts & Navigation (16:36)
- Complete guide to E6B
- How to use a navigation plotter
- E6B - Example ( but he skips wind correction angle- see next video for that peice of information)
- E6B- wind correction angle
- E6B as a rate converter : Gallons to lbs
- Enroute Navigation Study Guide
- FAA Chart Users' Guide
- Navigation Example (21:18)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7-Enroute Flight and Navigation - Pilotage (8:00)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 : Enroute Flight and Navigation: Time (6:52)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 : Enroute Flight and Navigation: Topography (17:49)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 : Enroute Flight and Navigation: Dead Reckoning (6:02)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7-Enroute Flight and Navigation - The wind triangle (3:36)
- Take a practice written with me : Section 7 Enroute Flight and Navigation. E6B question 1 (9:51)
- Take a practice written with me : Section 7 Enroute Flight and Navigation : E6B question 2 (10:36)
- Take a practice written with me : Section 7 Enroute Flight and Navigation : E6B question 3-5 (9:26)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 Enroute Flight and Navigation : E6B question 6 (4:39)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 Enroute Flight and Navigation : E6B question 7 (2:15)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 Enroute Flight and Navigation : E6B question 8 & 9 (12:36)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 Enroute Flight and Naviation : E6B question 10 (4:59)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 Enroute Flight and Naviation : E6B question 11 (5:45)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 Enroute Flight and Naviation : E6B question 13 (2:08)
- Take a practice written with me: Section 7 Enroute Flight and Naviation : E6B question 12, 14, 15 (6:16)
- QUIZ -FAA WRITTEN : Section 7 - Enroute Flight and Navigation
- FAA WRITTEN questions and answers - Section 7
Weather
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Weather Services
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Human Factors
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- Human Factors (15:37)
- Human Factors : Aeromedical (7:29)
- FAA WRITTEN practice : Section 10- Human Factors (22:50)
- FAA WRITTEN practice : Section 10 : Human Factors QUIZ
- Shisa Kanko
- FAA Human Factors videos - Stress in the Aviation Environment
- FAA Website -Physiology of Flight Videos : Fatigue in Aviation
- FAA Website -Physiology of Flight Videos : Fit for Flight
- FAA Website -Physiology of Flight Videos : Motion Sickness in Aviation
Scenario Based Training and Practical Application
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Maneuvers - Robinson R22
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- 2 Stage Pick up and Set Down (7:42)
- Hover Taxi (5:01)
- Normal Take-Off (8:40)
- Runway Incursions (15:41)
- Traffic Pattern (4:00)
- Straight & Level Turns Climbs & Descents (5:21)
- Straight-In Auto (13:01)
- Steep Approach (6:05)
- Quick Stop (4:52)
- Normal Approach (7:47)
- Max P (8:46)
- Low Rotor RPM (3:43)
- Go Around (4:06)
- Confined area (22:33)
- Shallow Approach (10:49)
- 180 Auto (9:16)
- Diversion & Lost Procedures (11:02)
- Dynamic Rollover (4:44)
- Engine Failure (13:20)
- Governor Off (10:36)
- Hover Auto (6:28)
- Inadvertant IMC (8:28)
- Slope Landing (7:33)
- Vortex Ring State / Settling with Power (9:51)
- Checklist - In Flight Maneuver and Scans
What an office view!
If you have flown with us, you already know that flying a helicopter is more fun than you expected. As a career, it's both challenging and rewarding. But this could be your office view :)
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