Private Flying
Do you fly your own private helicopter? Here’s how you can fly safer and come home to your family every evening.
- Video – Simulation: Learn From Your Mistakes
- Recommended Practice – Spatial Disorientation Induced by DVE
- Slides – Personal Minimums and PAVE
- Slides – EDP – Enroute Decision Point
- Repository – Personal Minimums kneeboard
- Practices – Helicopter Preflight, Final Walk Around and Postflight Inspection
- Fact Sheet – 12 Rules to Live by for Your Pre-flight Helicopter Inspection
- Release – USHST Issues First “Recommended Practice” Document: Aviation Decision Making
- Guide – FAA Helicopter Flying Handbook
- Guide – Online Resources for Rotorcraft Pilots
- Video – Land & Live Critical Decisions
- Safety Bulletin – Precautionary Landings
- Safety Bulletin – Personal Minimums
- Repository – Over-the-Counter Medication Chart for Pilots
- Safety Bulletin – Over-the-Counter Medication
- Safety Bulletin – Defensive Strategy
- Safety Bulletin – Density Altitude
- Safety Bulletin – FRAT and GRAT
- Repository – Helicopter Pilots’ Model Code of Conduct
- Repository – Helicopter Pilots’ Model Code of Conduct (abbreviated)
- Repository – Helicopter Safety Pledge
- Repository – The Pilot’s IMSAFE Check List
- Repository – Helicopter Pilots “Live Until Your Retirement” Check List
- Repository – NTSB Safety Alert on Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness
- Repository – NTSB Safety Alert on Landing Site Debris
- Essay – A Few Thoughts About Pilot Complacency
- Essay – Safety in Numbers: Personal Minimums
- Essay – Fatal Distraction: How Easily Pilot Attention is Lured Away
- Essay – Hot Blooded But Cold Feet
- Essay – Step-by-Step Solutions to Improve Helicopter Safety Attitudes
- Essay – Do . . . or Do Not: There is No Try. (Yoda and Helicopter Safety)
- Essay – What’s the Operating Status of the Most Critical System on Your Helicopter?
- Essay – Baby, It’s Cold Outside
- Essay – How to Become a Totally Responsible Pilot
- Release – Who Rates Best To Avoid Fatal Helicopter Accidents? Who Rates Worst?
- Release – USHST Provides and Accident Ranking for Different Areas Within the Industry
SAFETY TIPS
- Fact Sheet – 4 Documents That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Read
- Fact Sheet – 5 Videos That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Watch
- Fact Sheet – 3 Checklists That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Have
- Fact Sheet – 12 Operational Pitfalls for Helicopter Pilots
- Fact Sheet – 5 Attitudes That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Reject
- Fact Sheet – 5 Approaches That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Embrace
- Fact Sheet – How Helicopter Pilots Die
- Fact Sheet – 5 Vitally Important Safety Actions for Helicopter Pilots
- Fact Sheet – 4 Pillars of Personal Safety Management for a Helicopter Pilot
- Fact Sheet – 7 Preflight Tips That Every Helicopter Pilot Should Know
- Fact Sheet – 5 Ways to Manage an Inflight Helicopter Crisis
- Fact Sheet – 7 Decision-Making Tips That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Know
- Fact Sheet – 7 Safety Tips That Every Helicopter Pilot Needs to Follow
- Fact Sheet – 7 Initiatives That Every Helicopter Operator Needs to Tackle
- Fact Sheet – 5 Hazardous Attitudes for Helicopter Pilots to Recognize
- Fact Sheet – Helicopter Pilot Safety Antidotes for Hazardous Attitudes
- Fact Sheet – The Top 10 Ways You Can Prevent Helicopter Accidents