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  • Chapter 9: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Go-Around

    Around A go-around is a procedure for remaining airborne after an intended landing is discontinued. A go-around may be necessary when: • Instructed by the control tower. • Traffic conflict occurs. • The helicopter is in a position from which ... time an approach is uncomfortable, incorrect, or potentially dangerous, abandon the approach. The decision to make a go-around should be positive and initiated before a critical situation develops. When the decision is made, carry it out without hesitation…

  • Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Risk Management › Using the 3P Model to Form Good Safety Habits

    maneuvering, the pilot realizes there are physical boundaries and that they can affect the options available should the pilot need to conduct a go-around or abort the approach. Again, the pilot uses mental checkpoints to ensure an early decision ... made to conduct a go-around, if needed. The selected go-around or escape route will be in line with the selected approach/ departure path and generally into the wind. As you may have noticed, one identified hazard…

  • Chapter 8: Ground Procedures and Flight Preparations › Safety in and Around Helicopters › Passengers

    depart downhill. This affords the greatest distance between the rotor blades and the ground. If this involves walking around the helicopter, they should always go around the front—never the rear. Pilot at the Flight Controls Many helicopter operators have ... avoid delays at airport terminals and to minimize stop/start cycles of the engine. As part of this quick turn-around, the pilot might leave the cockpit with the engine and rotors turning. Such an operation can be extremely hazardous…

  • Chapter 9: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Common Errors › Turns Around a Point

    Improper correction for wind drift. 5. Failure to maintain selected altitude or airspeed. 6. Excessive bank angles. Turns Around a Point This training maneuver requires flying constant radius turns around a preselected point on the ground using a bank angle…

  • Chapter 7. Safety of Flight › Section 1. Meteorology › 7-1-9. Flight Information Services (FIS)

    DSPs offer numerous MET and AI products with information that can be layered on top of each other. Pilots need to be aware that too much information can have a negative effect on their cognitive work load. Pilots need ... level that offers the most pertinent information to that specific flight without creating a cockpit distraction. Pilots may need to adjust the amount of information based on numerous factors including, but not limited to, the phase of flight, single pilot…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › The Decision-Making Process › Estimate (the Need To React)

    process is incorrectly detecting the problem. In the previous example, the change that occurred was a yaw. Estimate (the Need To React) In the engine-out example, the aircraft yawed right, the pilot was on final approach, and the problem…