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    Flying is Fun
    Flying is Fun
    Flying is Fun
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    Flying is Fun

    By Helen Krasner

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    This book is based on the aviation articles which Helen Krasner wrote for the magazine Flight Training News during the years 2011 to 2012. It begins with an article from Helen’s early days of learning to fly, My Learning-to-Fly Nightmare, which should provide encouragement for anyone who is struggling with the PPL course. The next three articles are about topics of general interest to private pilots. Then come a group of helicopter related articles, but these should still provide food for thought for anyone interested in any type of flying. The last chapter answers the thought provoking issue, Why People Give up Flying. Altogether there are over 22,000 words of flying related information.

    Helen Krasner has been flying for many years; she holds a Commercial Helicopter Pilot's Licence and until recently had an Instructor's Rating. She also has a Private Pilot’s Licence for Aeroplanes, and around 1200 hours flying time in total. Until recently she worked as a freelance helicopter instructor, flying mainly R22s and R44s.

    Helen writes about helicopters and other aviation-related subjects for a number of publications, and she is also the former Newsletter Editor for the BWPA (British Women Pilots’ Association). She was nominated for one of the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004, for an article about Flying Helicopters in Russia. She has published two books about helicopter flying – The Helicopter Pilot’s Companion (Crowood Press 2008), and Flying Helicopters: a Companion to the PPL(H) (Crowood Press 2011). Helen has also written and published a book about a five thousand mile walk around Britain which she undertook some years ago (Midges, Maps, and Muesli).

    In addition Helen has published 12 ebooks, mainly about different aspects of flying - look out for them.
    Helen writes about helicopters and other aviation-related subjects for a number of publications, and she is also the former Newsletter Editor for the BWPA (British Women Pilots’ Association). She was nominated for one of the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004, for an article about Flying Helicopters in Russia. She has published two books about helicopter flying – The Helicopter Pilot’s Companion (Crowood Press 2008), and Flying Helicopters: a Companion to the PPL(H) (Crowood Press 2011). Helen has also written and published a book about a five thousand mile walk around Britain which she undertook some years ago (Midges, Maps, and Muesli).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHelen Krasner
    Release dateJan 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311480262
    Flying is Fun
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    Helen Krasner

    Helen Krasner worked as a helicopter instructor for several years, instructing for various flying schools on Robinson R22s and R44s. She has also flown a large number of other helicopter types, held a private pilot's licence for aeroplanes, and has had a go at flying microlights, gliders, and balloons. Helen has been writing professionally for many years and contributes regularly to a number of aviation publications. She was nominated for an Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in 2004, for an article about flying helicopters in Russia. She has also had several books published, both print and ebooks, mainly – though not exclusively – on aviation related topics. She is also a former Newsletter Editor for the BWPA (British Women Pilots' Association). You can find out more about Helen, including details of all of her books, on her website, helenkrasner.com.com.

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      Book preview

      Flying is Fun - Helen Krasner

      Flying is Fun

      Collected Articles from Flight Training News, 2011/12

      By Helen Krasner

      Published by Helen Krasner at Smashwords

      Copyright Helen Krasner 2012

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

      Preface

      Helen Krasner has been flying for many years; she holds a Commercial Helicopter Pilot's Licence and until recently had an Instructor's Rating.  She also has a Private Pilot’s Licence for Aeroplanes, and around 1200 hours flying time in total.  Until recently she worked as a freelance helicopter instructor, flying mainly R22s and R44s.

      Helen writes about helicopters and other aviation-related subjects for a number of publications, and she is also the former Newsletter Editor for the BWPA (British Women Pilots’ Association). She was nominated for one of the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004, for an article about Flying Helicopters in Russia. She has published two books about helicopter flying – The Helicopter Pilot’s Companion (Crowood Press 2008), and Flying Helicopters: a Companion to the PPL(H) (Crowood Press 2011). Helen has also written and published a book about a five thousand mile walk around Britain which she undertook some years ago (Midges, Maps, and Muesli).

      In addition Helen has published 12 ebooks, mainly about different aspects of flying. There is a story behind these books…

      In 2006 Helen started writing a regular column in the monthly publication Flight Training News. She contributed informative but lighthearted articles on all aspects of flying, for the most part drawing on her own experience, and almost invariably peppered with useful anecdotes from her own flying. By 2011 she had written nearly 50 of these articles, and various people commented on how useful they were, and also remarked that they would make an excellent book or series of books.

      Hence the idea for a series of four ebooks, which were published in 2011 and early 2012 – Learning to Fly Aeroplanes and Helicopters, Flying Aeroplanes and helicopters: Beyond the PPL, All About Flying Helicopters, and Helicopter Flying Instructor Experiences. These were all extremely popular, and have been selling well to both pilots and aviation enthusiasts. Look out for them, or you can find further details on Helen’s website, www.must-fly.com.

      However, Helen still writes her column, and now more articles have been published. Hence, by popular request from some of her regular readers, Helen has put together another collection of article on all aspects of flying, entitled Flying for Fun. It begins with an article from Helen’s early days of learning to fly, My Learning-to-Fly Nightmare, which should provide encouragement for anyone who is struggling with the PPL course. The next three articles are about topics of general interest to private pilots. Then come a group of helicopter related articles, but these should still provide food for thought for anyone interested in any type of flying. The last chapter answers the thought provoking issue, Why People Give up Flying.

      Helen hopes that you will enjoy reading these articles as much as she enjoyed writing them. She would like you to feel free to email her with any comments. She apologises in advance for any repetition, for it should be remembered that this is a collection of articles, written at different times, so such things are inevitable. It should definitely not be used to replace a standard textbook and a flying instructor’s briefings, but will hopefully provided additional useful and interesting information; that is all.

      If you enjoy this book, look out for the others, and feel free to contact Helen at helenkrasner2@gmail.com.

      Good luck and happy flying, and blue skies and tail winds to you all.

      Contents

      Chapter One: My Learning-to-Fly Nightmare

      Chapter Two: Gender Differences in Flying Training

      Chapter Three: Passed PPL, What Now?

      Chapter Four: Air Traffic Controllers are Ordinary People

      Chapter Five: Landing a Helicopter in a Confined Area

      Chapter Six: Helicopter Confined Area Departures

      Chapter Seven: Helicopter Safety Tips, Part 1

      Chapter Eight: Helicopter Safety Tips, Part 2

      Chapter Nine: Limits to High Speed Helicopter Flight

      Chapter Ten: My Helicopter Flight Instructor Course, Part 1

      Chapter Eleven: My Helicopter Flight Instructor Course, Part 2

      Chapter Twelve: An Instructor at Last

      Chapter Thirteen: Why People Give up Flying

      Chapter One: My Learning-to-Fly Nightmare

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      I didn’t find flying easy in the beginning. On the contrary, I found it extraordinarily difficult. Indeed, I sometimes wondered if I was a hopeless case, one of those very few people who simply shouldn’t have tried to learn to fly! However, I’ve realised over the years that most of my problems early on were due to….let’s say ‘inadequate’ instruction. I’m trying to be very fair here. After all this time I genuinely bear no hard feelings towards the main participants in the saga which I’m about to relate. I’d simply like new students, and others, to be able to learn from my experiences if at all possible.

      I decided to learn to fly fixed-wing aircraft more or less on impulse, jamming on my car’s brakes and screeching to a halt outside a local flying school which I’d never realised existed. I had done no research, and I didn’t realise that I needed to. After all, it was a flying school, wasn’t it? They taught people to fly, didn’t they? And I wanted to learn to fly; I’d thought about it for years, but I’d never quite got around to it. So I went in and booked a trial lesson.

      I thoroughly enjoyed that trial lesson, and I so ended up booking a few more hours. At first I flew with the CFI, and looking back, I realise he was very good indeed. However, he realised early on that I wasn’t a natural pilot. You’ll take more than the minimum hours to complete the course, he told me. Is there any problem with money or anything if it takes you longer?

      There wasn’t, and I didn’t mind. After all, I was enjoying the course, so what was the rush? I was happy for it to take as long as necessary. However, soon afterwards the CFI left and I found myself flying with a fairly new instructor…let’s call him Joe.

      Joe was the sort of instructor who unfortunately exists everywhere. He had the bare minimum FI requirement of 200 flying hours. He didn’t like instructing, and I don’t think that he liked people very much. But he wanted to be an airline pilot, and this was the only way he could afford to do it. But I didn’t know all of this then of course.

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