Operational Procedures
Pre-flight and normal procedures
Understand pre-flight inspection, checklists, and passenger briefing. Learn normal takeoff, hover, cruise, approach, and landing procedures, and how to manage confined areas and slopes.
Emergency procedures
Study autorotation, engine failure, tail rotor failure, and fire procedures. Know the immediate actions for each and the order in which they are performed.
Radio and airspace
Learn standard radio phraseology, position reporting, and airspace entry requirements. Understand how to operate at controlled and uncontrolled aerodromes.
Worked example
Rule of thumb: for an engine failure, remember the sequence - lower collective, maintain rotor RPM, establish autorotation, select landing area, then attempt restart if time allows.
Traps
Questions often test the order of emergency actions, or ask which procedure applies to a specific failure. Read carefully whether the question asks for immediate or subsequent actions.