• 100 h PIC on helicopters
• valid medical

Duration:2 days

Contents:5 flight lessons
Detailed theoretical briefings before
and after the flights

The aim of the Vertical Reference Training is to carry out familiar flight manoeuvres like lifting off and landing the helicopter as well as executing various hovering routines by using Vertical Reference points.

Each training unit consists of briefings before and after the flights as well as a flight time of 15 minutes.

Each training unit contains explanations concerning the individual landing and hovering routines within the range of the marked helipads and the various heliports.
Participants discuss not only the various possibilities for positioning the helicopter but also the special techniques related to the Vertical Reference points.
In the course of the training participants learn how to land the helicopter on the different markings with utmost precision, simply by looking back and to the side.

By using this special technique the entire helicopter can be landed, lifted up and kept in a hovering position with precision, just by considering the right skid and the corresponding aft right-hand connecting point between strut and skid.
A further element of this course is the theoretical briefing and practical exercises of the pilot’s seating position which newcomers may be unfamiliar with.

In Robinson helicopters pilots must bring themselves into a lateral position so that the seating position grants the best possible view over their right shoulder to the aft right-hand strut.

 The four training days consist of the following elements:

On the first two training days the participants carry out various routines to lift up, land and hover the helicopter in the area around the helipad.
On days 3 and 4 the participants will apply and refine the knowledge acquired at the helipads and use it at the various heliports to simulate a subsequent landing on specially prepared logs.