FLIGHT SCHOOL At 400 to 500 m from the ETP and 50 to 70 m altitude, start to smoothly decrease the airspeed. Before landing, double-check that the landing gear is extended.
Transitional Flight Regimes The barometric altitude hold mode can be engaged when radar altitude is above 50 m. To change your altitude when in altitude hold mode, press the collective brake lever; to retain it for the duration of the transition maneuver, release the brake lever. After this, a new altitude hold altitude will be set. To initiate a hover during vertical climb, smoothly lower the collective to cease the climb. Any altitude deviation should be corrected with small collective inputs. To initiate a manual, vertical descent from a hover, decrease the collective so that the descent rate is no greater than 3 m/s at altitudes above 10 m but greater than 3m/s. If it is too high, you risk a vortex ring entry. To initiate forward flight from a hover, push the cyclic forward and set a pitch angle corresponding to the desired acceleration rate. Simultaneously, maintain the altitude by collective inputs. Upon reaching the desired speed, set a pitch angle corresponding to this speed. To increase forward airspeed, smoothly move the cyclic forward while simultaneously increasing the collective pitch to maintain altitude. If takeoff power is applied (rotor RPM drop and engagement of the “zebra”) to maintain altitude, it will be necessary to decrease the acceleration rate by pulling the cyclic back and decreasing the collective until the rotor‟s RPM recover to the desired value. Avoid any bank, pitch and yaw tendencies by compensating with appropriate cyclic and rudder inputs. To reduce airspeed in horizontal flight, smoothly pull back on the cyclic to set the desired deceleration pitch angle. Hold the current altitude with collective input. To transition from forward flight to a hover at the same altitude, pull back on the cyclic to set the desired pitch angle and slow the helicopter down with the desired rate. Compensate any climb tendency by applying the corresponding collective input. Yaw and roll should be compensated for with the cyclic and pedals. To descend during horizontal flight, smoothly move the collective down until the desired vertical speed is reached. Maintain the pitch angle with the cyclic and make sure that the airspeed is constant. To level off the helicopter into horizontal flight after a descent, smoothly increase the collective, and using the vertical speed as a reference, stabilize the helicopter in horizontal flight. To transition from a descent to a hover, pull back on the cyclic to set the desired pitch angle and start decelerating. Decrease the vertical speed (sink rate) smoothly by increasing the collective until the helicopter is in a hover
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