Advanced Aviation Education Program

(Helicopter)

2015

Flying Scholarship

Training Report

By Jeff

July 2015
 Table of Contents
Personal Information .............................................................................................. 3

Introduction to the Becker Helicopters Pilot Academy .......................................... 4

Flight training detail.................................................................................................8

Bell 206B III flying experience......13

Visit to Becker Helicopters Engineering Hangar .................................................. 14

Accommodation .................................................................................................... 15

People .................................................................................................................... 16

Tips for future scholarship awardees ..................................................................... 18

Acknowledgement ................................................................................................. 19

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Personal Information
Name: Lum Cheuk Hin, Jeff

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: 20 October, 1997

Occupation: Student

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Introduction to the Becker Helicopters Pilot Academy
The couple, Mike Becker and Jan Becker, had launched the operation of the Becker
Helicopters Pilot Academy since 1995. The Academy is based at Sunshine Coast
Airport, Queensland. The company does not only provide civilian flight training, but
also provide military flight training for the UAE defense force personal. It is the only
flight school in the southern hemisphere that is authorized for providing NVG training.
Most of the flight instructors are very experienced, some even had more than 20,000
flying hours in a helicopter. Apart from flight training, the company also conducts
various types of flight operation such as fire fighting and SAR. The company is
involved in many charity works, at the same time, being an award winning company.
There are currently 21 helicopter in the Beckers fleet, including the Robinson
R-22Beta II, Bell 206BIII Jet Rangers, AS350D Squirrel and the companys original
helicopter, the Bell 47G-2A. To minimize the cost of training for their client at the
same time maintaining the quality of the training, the Academy also has two Bell
206BIII flight simulator, and 4 new flight simulator is still under construction. These
simulators are certified by CASA and flying hour in the simulator can also be logged
as instrument flying hour in the pilot log book.

The front gate of the academy

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The parking lots and the main entrance of the Academy

Inside the Bell 206B III simulator

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An Outside View from the simulator

SAR Board

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The authorization sheet

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 Flight Training Detail

Helicopter Detail R-22Beta II

Training Period 20-24 July 2015

Instructor Captain K. Jorgensen

Captain F. Ponder

Captain J. Orrom

Training Items 1. Effect of Controls (EOC)

2. Elementary Handling (E/H)

3. Circuit

4. Hovering

Me doing a pre-flight check

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Prior to each flight training

Before each flight training, the flight instructor would conduct a long brief with us
in the classroom, with the aid of the Mike Beckers Helicopter Handbook and the
Robinson R-22 Pilot Handling Notes, they explain to us the theories of the
maneuver that we will do in the coming flight exercise, also point out all the
important information that we should know and give us some tips, so as to give us
an expectation of what we will encounter so we could perform better and learn
quicker.

Once we hopped inside the cockpit

The flight instructor would go through the checklists and start the helicopter up
with me, taxi to taxiway Delta and request for take off and depart for the take off
and depart for the training area. When we are airborne, the captain would usually
give me the control of the helicopter.

First Flight Training

The first flight training lasted around 1.2 hours and I was instructed by Captain
K. Jorgensen, a veteran helicopter pilot of the Royal Australian Army Corps.

It was an early morning flight, the Robinson hadnt been started up before that
day, so we would have to conduct a cold startup. After that, we taxied to taxiway
Delta and Captain Jorgensen hand me over the control of the collective. With his
hand also on his own collective, he told my to slowly raise and lower the collective.
I was so excited because it was my first time actually controlling a helicopter.
After that, Captain Jorgensen brought the helicopter up and maintained 3000 feet
up in the sky, very soon, I was handed me the control of the cyclic and I was asked
to maintain a straight flight, sometimes turn to a specific direction. After gaining a
bit of confident turning the helicopter for a few time. I tired a couple of the steep
turn and I could feel the Gs. Captain Jorgensen said it was just around 1.5Gs. It
wasnt much, but it was still amazing. After getting a little taste on the effects of
controls, we headed straight to the Bribie Island, an island due south to the
Sunshine Coast Airport. Captain Jorgensen then took the helicopter down to 30
feet and demonstrate low flying to me, giving me a taste of how it like to fly a

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military helicopter and strafe the enemy. After that, I receive all the controls and
we returned to base.

This was my first ever flight training an aircraft. I was so nervous and I had
never expected that cyclic would vibrate so much and never through that it would
flight against my hand. Also, I found it a bit of overwhelming that if Im an
actual pilot, I would have to fly the helicopter, communicate with the tower, keep
my eyes out for traffic and always make sure every system of my helicopter is fine.
This first flight gave me a taste of how challenging the job of a pilot is.

Second Flight Training

The second flight was around 1.9 hours and I was instructed by Captain F.
Ponder, the head of commercial operation of the Becker Helicopter Pilots
Academy. In this flight, I had done some elementary heading exercise and tried to
hover. We flew up north. As I was having all the controls in my hand, Captain
Ponder gave me various reference points and my job is to fly straight and level to
the reference point. I was pretty satisfied with my performance of the straight and
level and the turning that Ive done. I level out the helicopter something and it felt
so comfortable. Very soon, we had arrived our training area, we descended and get
into a hover close to the ground in an open space of a timber form. Captain Ponder
gave me the control of the cyclic and he had control over the rest, asking me to
maintain the helicopter on the some spot. It was fine, then he gave me the control
of the collective and the rudder each at a time, I was able to hover the helicopter as
long as Captain Ponder had control. However once he passed me the control of all
the three controls, the helicopter went completing out of control. It swung like a
wrecking ball. Captain Ponder would take the control back and hover the
helicopter on a spot again. However no matter how hard I tired, I couldnt get the
helicopter under my control. Captain Ponder decided to fly back to the helicopter
training area next to the Sunshine Coast Airport. And once again we had some
hover training there and I still couldnt manage to hover the helicopter. And very
soon, I was exhausted, we landed back at the airport and refueled for the next
flight, which was Patricks flight.

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Third Flight Training

I had my third flight training with Captain J. Orrom and the training was around
2.0 hours. In this flight, we had done some circuit flight training, however exercise
and experienced some special flight maneuver.

We first head to the training area north of the airport, and landed on a muddy
road, where many trees were on both sides of the road. A short briefing, we lifted
off and flew an left hand circuit. In the first circuit, I didnt do anything anything
but followed through what Captain Orrom was doing. He landed again, gave me
all the controls, I lifted off the helicopter, climbed and maintained 500 feet, then I
completed my first ever circuit with little assistance from Captain Orrom. After
some circuit flying, we had straight back to the Sunshine Coast Airport and started
my hover training. Captain Orrom tried a different approach in training me. He
told me that we should maintain the heading of the helicopter first, before we start
correcting our attitude and altitude. This way, the rudder is the most important
control for hovering. So he gave me the control of the rudder first, then the
collective and the cyclic. Magically I managed to hover the helicopter. After that,
to give me a bit of challenge, Captain Orrom landed the helicopter and asked me to
lifted the helicopter up and bring it into a hover. I encountered a right drift when I
lifted off (Im sure its a result of the tail rotor drift) I stopped the drifting and
hovered the helicopter around 10 meters to the right of the lift off point. Once
enter a stable hover, I drifted the helicopter back to the lift off position at the same
time keeping Captain Orrom advice on my mind. I was so happy that I could hover
within 5 hours! After that, Captain Orrom took the helicopter back up into the sky
and did an autorotation with me, follow up with a quick stop, some low flying,
spray turn and a confided area landing. He did this to show me what maneuver a
rescue pilot should do, like landing in a confided area.

Being able to hover is a true achievement to me! And I will never forget the trick
to to do a stable hover.

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Heading Back to the Sunshine Coast Airport

Before lifting off for the circuit training

A 108 degree view to the outside

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Bell 206B III flying experience

As Captain K. Jorgensen had to conduct an instrument flight training with a new

flight instructor, he gave us an opportunity to have a ride in the JetRanger.

In the flight, Captain Jorgensen demonstrate an enginine out autorotation with us.
Once he cut the throttle , the helicopter fell like a rock and it felt like an
amusement park ride. Very soon, Captain gained control over the helicopter again
and began a skilled maneuver to the ground and landed the helicopter. After that
was another low flying experience. Very soon we returned to base.

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Visit to the maintenance building

Captain F. Ponder brought us to the Becker Helicopter Maintenance Building.

Many helicopter parked inside the building, some were old helicopter being
refurbished. The original helicopter of the Becker Helicopter Pilots Academy, the
Oscar, a Bell 47G-2A, and the Squirrel, the helicopter that Captain Ponder fly to
conduct air work were also there.

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Accommodation

During the one week of our training, we stayed in an apartment at the Marcoola
Beach Resort Hotel. The apartment was so big and spacious, the balcony of the
apartment provided us a perfect place for study. There were four ceramic heater in
the kitchen, we used it to prepare for our three meals. There wasnt much shops
close to our apartment building, we got our foods mainly from Coles, people at the
Academy were so kind that they would drive us to the supermarket and drove us to
school everyday.

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People

Captain F. Ponder(Left) and Captain K. Jorgensen(Right)

Captain J. Orrom
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My Partner P. Yeung

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Tips for future scholarship awardees

1. It is important to revise all the theory books and lecture notes prior to the training

2. Go through the Mike Beckers Helicopter Handbook and the Robinson R-22
Pilot Handling Notes, memorize the important numbers like the MP for normal
cruise, for take off and for descent etc

3. Familiarize yourself with the configuration of the helicopter(both interior and

exterior), and try to go through the checklists in your mind, and think of the
reason of the check

4. Its important to maintain a clear communication between you and your

instructor, feel free to ask you flight instructor if you dont understand something
or if you are uncertain about something so as to prevent making error.

5. Its too late if you correct the motion of the helicopter once if has already started
to roll or pitch when you are in a hover. Anticipate the movement of the
helicopter, prevent it from making any undesired movement and always keep
yourself relaxed.

6. Remember the 5Ps- Proper Preparation Prevent Poor Performance

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Acknowledgement

Without the assistance and support from the following people and organization, I
would have been able to have this enchanting opportunity to go to this flight training
trip. Hereby I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the following people and
organizations

- Captain Mike and Jan Becker and their academy for the 5-hour helicopter training
sponsorship

- Cathay Pacific for the sponsorship of the ticket to Singapore and ticket for flight
from Brisbane to Hong Kong

- Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps

- Mr. Hermes Ho for organizing the whole AAEP(H) program

- Captain F. Ponder, Captain K. Jorgensen and Captain J. Orrom for instructing my

flight

- Miss Chiere for contacting me and providing us information

- Patrick Yeung for taking care of me throughout the trip

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