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Choosing The Right Helicopter |
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 Each type of helicopter is different. But this doesn’t mean that it is difficult to buy one that would fit your need for everything would boil down to your priority.
Helicopters are measured in terms of passenger capacity, comfort, versatility, speed, and of course cost. Choosing the right one for you depends on these criteria. For example, if you want a cost effective helicopter strictly for personal use, you can take the Schweizer 300 or the Robinson R22 (helicopter for 2). It has basic comfort and few features. |
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Planning For Helicopter Training |
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 Helicopter training is your gateway to becoming a helicopter pilot (helicopter license is the key). This is why you should carefully plan that whole process of enrolling and getting the license. To help you out on this, here are the important things you must know:
Plan your finances Among all the important things you should do, planning your finances should be on the top of your list. Take note that the whole helicopter training course is expensive and involves a long time commitment. Indulge only to this commitment if you can pay the training from start to finish. If you think you cannot make it through, there are several financial aids that would lessen the financial burden you carry. Some training schools also have special payment schemes that you can take advantage of in order to get through the training. |
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Helicopter Lesson Or A Complete Training Course |
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 If you consider learning how to fly with a real helicopter, you have 2 options: it is either enrolling for a helicopter training course or taking up helicopter lesson. While the terms used may be quite similar and the medium is also similar, the approach is entirely different. And if you are thinking of choosing the former over the latter, then you could simply be surprised with the cost of the whole helicopter training course. While choosing the latter would only cost a couple of hundred dollars.
The usual helicopter training course could cost at around $20,000 to $45,000. This would last depending on your availability. Usually, it would be over between 3-7 months with a 5-day a week training. The cost would payoff after you have finished the course and acquiring the license. You can either have a Private License or a Commercial Helicopter License where you can fly a helicopter and make it a career. |
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In the early 1920s, Argentine Raúl Pateras Pescara, while working in Europe, demonstrated one of the first successful applications of cyclic pitch. Coaxial, contra-rotating, biplane rotors could be warped to cyclically increase and decrease the lift they produced; and the rotor hub also could, allowing the aircraft lateral movement without a separate propeller to push or pull it. Pescara is also demonstrated the principle of autorotation, by which helicopters safely land after engine failure; by January of 1924, Pescara's helicopter No. 3 could fly for up ten minutes. |
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In 1951, at the urging of his contacts at the Department of the Navy, Charles H. Kaman modified his K-225 helicopter with a new kind of engine, the turboshaft engine. This adaptation of the turbine engine provided a large amount of horsepower to the helicopter with a lower weight penalty than piston engines, with their heavy engine blocks and auxiliary components. On 11 December 1951, the K-225 became the first turbine-powered helicopter in the world. Two years later, on 26 March 1954, a modified Navy HTK-1, another Kaman helicopter, became the first twin-turbine helicopter to fly. However, it was the Sud Aviation Alouette II that would become the first helicopter to be produced with a turbine-engine. |
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