A reference book that follows the ATPL syllabus for aeroplanes and helicopters, so you can use it before, during and after your exams, for the whole of your career! People waiting to start a course, or keeping current while waiting for a job to turn up will find it useful, since the usual study materials are not easy to read on the bus or the train. In fact, there's a lot in its pages you don't get taught in flying school, and a lot you should be taught, were it not for time constraints - many professional tips and tricks have been included to help make your transition to being a working pilot as easy as possible. Much of the contents are based on common questions asked during recurrent training, and known exam questions, and include the usual subjects, that is, radio, weather, law, flight planning, etc., plus Going For a Job (with lots of interview questions!).

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Just as important as the exams is the interview panel, and this is the book for those who want to deal with both - its purpose is to help you become a professional, for which the exams are but a step on the way - doing the bare minimum to pass them makes you ill-prepared to be a pilot, which is not fair to future passengers and painfully obvious to employers (and interviewers) who certainly expect you to have more than a basic knowledge.

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This book is intended to be a quick reference for people involved in European Aviation, from pilots to Ops staff, to save you either carrying around a lot of large files, or a CD, which requires a laptop. We've left out as many boring bits as possible, such as preambles, etc, together with a lot of duplication, and incorporated all the AMCs etc (Part 2) into Part 1, both times.

Featuring the most up-to-date information this new publication for 2008 is the most thorough presentation yet for the JAR Private Pilot’s Licence, for both helicopters and aeroplanes. In this book the authors experience helps you with your JAR exams as well as giving you tips used by professional pilots to make you a better pilot.
Written by a highly experienced pilot Phil Croucher who holds Canadian, JAR and US licenses for aeroplanes and helicopters.

"We thought this book represented excellent value for money........ It is written in an easy to understand style, (and) contains more information than is required to simply pass the JAR exams. As a single volume revision text or one to take away with you to study whilst lying on the beach, it is well worth considering. Recommended."

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The material is all in the Professional version, but is overkill for people who just want to fly privately, so this one has been produced separately.

A book that has very little to do with flying, but everything to do with being a pilot - and the sort of training and information you need after you pass your licence exams, but don't always get, covering the practical and admin sides of flying aeroplanes and helicopters. If you're a corporate pilot, with no Public Transport experience to fall back on, but faced with operating an aircraft without any help, this should be the manual you don't have the incentive to write for yourself, and it will be especially useful to Operations Staff, who often have to put themselves in a pilot's shoes, such as when inspecting Pleasure Flying sites. You could call it the sequel to the Professional Pilot Study books, for reading once you've passed all those exams, although there is about 5% of crossover material between them. It is an updated version of The Professional Pilot's Manual, originally published by Airlife in 1980-something. Aside from passing on a few tricks of the trade, it's also a commentary on Operations Manuals, since they never seem to be written in English. It covers the Joint Airworthiness Requirements.

Based on the author's soon-to-be-approved JAA ATPL(H)(V) course, this book provides all the material required for the JAA exams, including the PPL(H), CPL(H) and ATPL(H), plus a few extras, like the Instrument Rating. The book has been specially designed for the needs of professional or military pilots seeking to gain an alternative licence, but newcomers to the industry can use it, too, since it assumes no previous knowledge.

Just as important as the exams is the interview panel, and this is the book for those who want to deal with both - its purpose is to help you become a professional, for which the exams are but a step on the way - doing the bare minimum to pass them makes you ill-prepared to be a pilot, which is not fair to future passengers and painfully obvious to employers (and interviewers) who certainly expect you to have more than a basic knowledge.

It is a reference book that follows the ATPL syllabus, so you can use it before, during and after your exams, for the whole of your career! Because it provides an overview of the whole study syllabus, and the usual study materials are not easy to read on the bus or the train, the book is suitable for many types of reader:

• Those who want to see what they are letting themselves in for.
• Those who want to do some pre-study before starting a flying course.
• Those who cannot understand the materials on the course they are already on.
• Those who want a reminder of the trouble they went through!

People trying to keep current while waiting for a job or an interview to turn up will also find it useful. In fact, there's a lot in its pages you don't get taught in flying school, and a lot you should be taught, were it not for time constraints - many professional tips and tricks have been included to help make your transition to being a working pilot as easy as possible. Much of the contents are based on common questions asked during recurrent training, and known exam questions, and include the usual subjects, that is, radio, weather, law, flight planning, etc., plus Going For a Job (with lots of interview questions!).

Note that, with the JAR system, you must be recommended by an approved Flying Training Organisation before you can take the exams. However, ATPL (H) holders with at least 1000 hours (PIC or copilot) on multi-pilot helicopters type rated for the (multi-pilot) machine to be used for the skill test, with at least 500 hours on type, are exempt from the TRTO course or any training for the theoretical exams, and the skill test (no, you are not exempt the skill test, just any knowledge requirements for it!) With less than 500 hours on type, you are exempt from the theoretical exam training, but will still have to do a type rating course, which may be reduced anyway because of previous experience. This means that you can just book the exams, read this book and take them, with no sign-off from a training school - there is a slot on the application form for exemptions claimed.

This book tackles the understanding of Rotary-Wing aerodynamics with contributing text on the subject of Physics for Safer Flying in a helicopter. While the differences between flying fixed wing and helis may seem obvious at first, there are numerous helicopter-flight scenarios where taking the seemingly logical course of corrective action will only make things worse!.
Knowledge is power. Arm yourself with the information contained in this book for a safer and smarter helicopter flying experience.

"Have perused it in spare moments, and must say, I'm impressed! It sure beats the pants [out] of the Wagtendonk and being just a tad more understandable. Did I say a tad, well I think it is MORE than a tad more readable!"

CFI, Central Helicopter Training Academy, Ontario

Contains:-

• Newtons laws of motion and their relevancy to helicopter flight
• How airflow dictates the function and design of aerofoils, rotor blades and flight controls
• All the lift and drag "forces in flight" you'll encounter while flying and how to respond safely
• Types of stability, ground effect, translational lift, tail rotor drift and correcting them effectively
• A study of demanding scenarios, such as auto-rotations, vortrex ring and dynamic rollover
• How types of power and aircraft and load weight and balance effect all of the above + much more

This book contains questions for the JAA/EASA Private Pilot’s Licence, but it could be valid for almost any country, making due allowance for air law, meteorology and various maps, which have been chosen to be as neutral as possible.
There is a trend to get a sneak peek of the questions, and this is what many publications seek to achieve*. This one doesn’t! The questions inside follow the same style as those found in the PPL exams, but they are not the exact ones you will find in them. This is because, as a pilot, you are meant to think for yourself! In this respect, this book is very well suited for those people intending to take their flying forward to a professional career. In any case, the jump between Private and Commercial Pilot should only be a small one, except for subjects such as turbine engines which are not in the PPL syllabus anyway.

*In the UK, the professional pilot licences are soon going to be online, and the PPL questions will join them (they have already been compiled). In other words, they will not be looked after by the flight schools, so nobody should get to know what they are, and other publications will necessarily be out of date.

For people intending to fly commercially, the contents of this book represent the minimum knowledge required by anybody taking modular distance learning courses (for which the PPL is a minimum requirement).
There are separate chapters for each subject involved. Answers (with explanations**) are given at the end of the book. There is an Appendix containing various pictures, graphs, etc. for use in the questions.

Repetitive questions have been eliminated to make room for others, where the answer is obvious. For example, a question about what happens to Lift when density decreases does not have another that asks what happens when density increases!