Helicopter Training Video Night Flying Online Ground School

Join Online Ground School: https://www.helicopterground.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helicopterground/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HelicopterGround/ Free PDF copy of my Amazon Best Seller Helicopter Check Ride!: https://www.helicopterground.com/pl/1856 Helicopter Training Video Night Flying Online Ground School. First really good Helicopter Flight Training, Night Flying tip. Avoid bright lights 30 minutes prior to flight! Flashing green and white airport beacon, lighted land airport. Make sure you have plenty of helicopter fuel. And make sure you get the right fuel! Your fuel reserve for a helicopter is 20 minutes during the day, and 20 minutes at night. You better have more than that because it is sometimes hard to get fuel at night depending on where you are at. And I would say not just one flashlight, but two, and spare batteries. And don't forget your key. Check all your aircraft position lights, your landing light, and your anti collision light. Right now we are in a brightly lit area. We want to get do a good preflight inside with the light. Get everything done inside, then move outside where it is dark. Get the fuel, do a last minute walk around. Go inside, do any last flight planning you may need. Then give your eyes a half hour to adjust away from bright lights. We learn that in basic private pilot training. Avoid bright lights 30 minutes prior to flight. In the night vision goggle training I received as a Helicopter EMS Pilot, we were told it could take up to a hour or more for your eyes to adjust. So get your Helicopter Preflight done inside. Of course using your preflight checklist, day or night, it does not matter. Make sure all your checks are done with minimum on battery time. Check what you need to check, then helicopter battery off with aircraft master switch. When must your aircraft position lights be on? Sunset to sunrise. Some of the other key stuff about Night Flying. Question asked a lot, how do you fly your helicopter approach at night versus in the day. You will get all kinds of crazy answers! The answer is, the same way you fly them during the day. You fly your approaches at night the same as you do in the daytime. You just have to be aware of the different illusions as you are coming in to the runway. The runway can be coming at you faster than you think it is. It can appear that the runway is farther away than it really is. There are some other illusions as well. . Enstrom Helicopter F-28 F, Ok I messed up the def. of night, so here goes by the reg: Means the time between the end of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight, as published in the American Air Almanac, converted to local time. Don't forget your flashlight. So you can see what in the world you are doing in the middle of the night. Flashlight phone app, pretty cool huh? Thanks to my 8 year old. Easy to do by yourself, don't forget your gas cap! And walk around the helicopter ans inspect with your flashlight, you may see something you missed in the brightly lit hangar.Helicopter Night Flying Helicopter Training Video Night Flying Online Ground School