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| Title | Armed Action |
| Publisher | Hodder Headline |
| ISBN | 0755316010 |
| Details | The modern day 'Chickenhawk'. An amusing, but frank account of a Royal Navy helicopter pilots life up to and during the second Gulf War. Definitely worth reading. |
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| Title | Aviation Instructors Handbook |
| Download | http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/media/FAA-H-8083-9.pdf | |
| Publisher | Federal Aviation Administration |
| ISBN | |
| Details | The FAA Handbook for aviation instructors. A good background text for the new and experienced instructor alike. The principles described are applicable to any syllabus of training not just FAA. |
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| Title | Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics |
| Publisher | Blackwell Science |
| ISBN | 0-632-02032-6 |
| Details | A good precursor to aerodynamic engineering courses. Of use to the interested CPL or FI bridging the way to the more detailed aerodynamics books. |
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| Title | Basic Helicopter Handbook |
| Publisher | ASA |
| ISBN | |
| Details | The Basic Helicopter Handbook is a paperback, fairly simplified text useful to beginning students of helicopter principles. With an obviously American slant to the theory, maybe not as useful to JAA students, but ideal for FAA students. |
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| Title | Bramwell's Helicopter Dynamics |
| Publisher | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| ISBN | 0-7506-5075-3 |
| Details | Bramwells Helicopter Dynamics is a book for the mathematically minded student. Too much detail for even the CPL(H) but an overall excellent text for those not scared of the greek alphabet. |
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| Title | Chickenhawk |
| Publisher | |
| ISBN | 0-552-12419-2 |
| Details | Robert Masons amazing account of life as an American helicopter pilot in Vietnam. |
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| Title | Civil Helicopter Handbook |
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| Title | Fatal Traps for Helicopter Pilots |
| Publisher | Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. |
| ISBN | 0-7900-0885-8 |
| Details | A good read, particularly for the newly qualified and student pilot. An account of a number helicopter accidents and their causes. Safety promotion in a paperback book. The book has its own website http://www.fataltraps.com/ |
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| Title | Flight Instructor Guide Helicopter |
| Download | http://www.tc.gc.ca/publications/EN/TP4818/PDF/HR/TP4818E.pdf | |
| Publisher | Transport Canada |
| ISBN | |
| Details | Transport Canadas Helicopter instructor manual. A section on teaching, or more correctly learning is followed by an in detail description of the exercises in the Transport Canada Syllabus. |
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| Title | Flying The Rotors |
| Publisher | |
| ISBN | |
| Details | An excellent although somewhat dated text. An ideal book to read during and post CPL training. Offers a good introduction to some advanced techniques with some interesting explanations. |
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| Title | Helicopter Aerodynamics |
| Publisher | Helobooks |
| ISBN | 0-9726368-6-2 |
| Details | Ray Proutys' columns reprinted again, 3 Volumes in one book. Some of the best articles ever written about helicopters and how they fly. No complex maths and lots of simple diagrams make this a good read at every level. |
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| Title | Helicopter Design and Data Manual |
| Publisher | |
| ISBN | 0-87994-010-7 |
| Details | A guide for the amateur helicopter or gyroplane builder. A particularly interesting explanation of the Bell Rotor system is included. |
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| Title | Helicopter Flight Dynamics |
| Publisher | Blackwell Science |
| ISBN | 0-632-05607-X |
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| Title | Helicopter Pilot Manual |
| Publisher | |
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| Details | An extremely useful book, if you are training on the H269. |
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| Title | Helicopter Test and Evaluation |
| Publisher | Blackwell Science |
| ISBN | 0-632-05247-3 |
| Details | Currenly Under Review, Up to now an interesting read. |
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| Title | Helicopter Theory |
| Publisher | Dover Publications |
| ISBN | 0-486-68230-7 |
| Details | One of the longstanding helicopter theory books. Aimed more at the engineering student than the pilot, extremely detailed, making the pilot relevant bits hard to find. As a degree level text it is ideally suited. |
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| Title | Helicopters and Rotorcraft |
| Publisher | Airlife |
| ISBN | 1-85310-968-1 |
| Details | A directory of helicopter manufacturer and the aircraft they produce. Plenty of black and white photographs, of most types produced up to the date of publication (1998). Most of the information is now available on the internet, although the book is a good central reference point. |
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| Title | Helipad Sitefinder |
| Publisher | Pooleys |
| ISBN | |
| Details | A guide to UK helicopter landing sites. In its 2nd edtion, now published by Pooleys a handy addition to a helicopter pilots flight bag. A large number of the sites featured in this book also appear in our landing sites database. |
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| Title | Introduction to Helicopter and Tiltrotor Flight Simulation |
| Publisher | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| ISBN | 1-56347-873-0 |
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| Title | JAR Helicopter Manual |
| Publisher | Pooleys |
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| Details | A good basic helicopter theory book. Written by a lecturer at Cranfield Institute of Technology. |
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| Title | Learning To Fly Helicopters |
| Publisher | McGraw Hill |
| ISBN | 0-07-157724-6 |
| Details | Another slightly dated but still relevant text. Describes learning to fly helicopters in america with a bias towards the F.A.A syllabus and air exercises. |
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| Title | Meteorology For Pilots |
| Publisher | Airlife |
| ISBN | 1-85310-943-6 |
| Details | A good book for learning about Meteorology at CPL(H) level. |
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| Title | Military Helicopter Handbook |
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| Title | Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics |
| Publisher | Cambridge Unversity Press |
| ISBN | 0-521-52396-6 |
| Details | |
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| Title | Principles of Helicopter Flight |
| Publisher | ASA |
| ISBN | 1560272171 |
| Details | The book which most UK Schools use for training purposes. Very useful as the majority of the terminology used in the CAA exams is drawn straight from this book. |
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| Title | Professional Helicopter Pilot Studies |
| Publisher | Electrocution |
| ISBN | 0-9780269-0-X |
| Details | The latest release by well known author Phil Croucher, this book is receiving complimentary reviews from pilots around the globe. |
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| Title | R22 Pilots Operating Handbook |
| Publisher | |
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| Details | The Pilots Operating Handbook for the R22 is a must read (literally) for all R22 pilots, some schools encourage their students to buy the book, a bit expensive but in some respects a good introduction to flight manuals and their layout and contents. |
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| Title | Regarding Robinson R22 Helicopters |
| Publisher | Rennsport |
| ISBN | 978-0-9540361-1-9 |
| Details | An inexpensive, colorful and interesting book, written by an R22 pilot. A concise history of the R22 and The Robinson Helicopter Company. The interviews with Frank and Kurt Robinson are particularly worth readiing if you are in any way involved with R22s. |
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| Title | Rotary Wing Flight |
| Publisher | ASA |
| ISBN | |
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| Title | Rotary-Wing Aerodynamics |
| Publisher | Dover Publications |
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| Title | The Art and Science of Flying Helicopters |
| Publisher | Iowa State University Press |
| ISBN | 0-340-65249-7 |
| Details | Shawn Coyles book provides a technical insight into helicopters and helicopter systems without going anywhere near complicated maths or overly technical diagrams. Probably of more use to the CPL(H) student, an excellent all round read. |
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| Title | The Art of the Helicopter |
| Publisher | Butterworth-Heinemann |
| ISBN | 0-75065-715-4 |
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| Title | The Bell 206 Book |
| Publisher | Electrocution |
| ISBN | 0-9732253-9-4 |
| Details | Written by an experienced 206 pilot and CRM instructor this book provides almost all you could ever want to know about the bell 206 helicopter. |
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| Title | The Helicopter and How It Flies |
| Publisher | |
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| Title | The Helicopter Pilots Handbook |
| Publisher | Electrocution |
| ISBN | 0-9681928-3-1 |
| Details | Phil Crouchers book is a good all round reference for the new CPL and the experienced pilot alike. Full of the things no one remembers to tell you about during training, and things that know you knew but can't quite recall. |
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| Title | The Helicopter Pilots Manual |
| Publisher | Airlife |
| ISBN | 1-85310-188-5 |
| Details | This book and its sister volume are a good start point for the PPL(H) student, Volume 1 contains details on PPL(H) flight exercise to the UK Syllabus. |
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| Title | The Helicopter Pilots Manual Volume 2 |
| Publisher | Airlife |
| ISBN | 1-85310-718-2 |
| Details | This book and its sister volume are a good start point for the PPL(H) student, Volume 2 contains details of Instrumentation, Powerplants and Hydraulics. |
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| Title | The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft From Concept to Flight |
| Download | http://history.nasa.gov/monograph17.pdf | |
| Publisher | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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