One if the important ingredients for flight safety is a properly resourced training sector. Some of those resources can be quite fundamental. For example, an important contribution to training is for flight instructors to have available to them a basic guide to flying training. In response to this need, EHEST contacted the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) which has developed a flying instructors’ manual incorporating extensive feedback from the helicopter training community. CASA has kindly made this manual available to EHEST for dissemination. Some changes have been incorporated to reflect European terminology and syllabus contents.

The EHEST Helicopter Flight Instructor Manual is comprehensive and fully illustrated. Part 1 addresses Principles and Methods of Instruction and Part 2 provides Ground and Air Instruction Exercises. It will be a great resource for the European flight instructors, who may freely download and use this manual.