Intro Flight for Huey

The intro flight is a newcomer's first familiarization flight. Its purpose is mainly to make sure all technical things work, make the newcomer feel welcome, go through some radio stuff and have some fun. It's not that important to learn any particular skills during the flight. That can come later. This article describes the content of the sortie. A newcomer is welcome to practice any moments before, but there is no requirement nor expectation to do so. However, all newcomers are expected to have gone through the Technical Checklist carefully, before the flight. This step is important. You're more than welcome to ask for help if you have any issues following the guide, but please don't ignore any of the mandatory steps. The intro flight is designed for huey pilots, for other aircraft see Intro Flight .

Brief description of the sortie

Overview

Pre-flight

Meet up on Discord Make sure Teamspeak and SRS works, including all PTT buttons SRS overlay and IFF/Transponder (mission 1XXX, training 0XXX, XXX=sidenumber) The 1 minute version of what MA is and what we do Briefing. Quickly go over what we will do during the flight and look at the map.¨ Explain why right turn is prefered in huey.

Flight

Disable Labels Start at Kutaisi in same helo (IP as copilot.) Loadout: empty 60% fuel Startup Check radios PTT Check ATIS (done by pilot) especially wind/QNH and runway in use. IP (co pilot) handles radio from this point, contact tower Channel 7 (or ground if available) request hover check. Request taxi to runway, Taxi to runway hold short. Runway takeoff (in controlzone keep below 1000ft) Package channel S3 check-in (Report “2!”) Visual navigation to farp at lake. Land at farp. Ip takes own flight at farp Rearm 50% fuel miniguns rockets Check in as one flight. IP spon trucks at old runway in north of Kutaise city. Fence in (Report “2, fenced in, [fuelstate]!”) on the way to the old way to the old runway at kutasi. Release rockets/miniguns on target at old runway. (Moving attack) Fence out on the way to Kutaisi (Report “2, fenced out, [fuelstate]!”) Tower channel 7 check-in (Report “2!”) Straight-in and land active runway in controlzone keep below 1000ft

Post-flight

Short debriefing, going through what we just did and how it went. Some pointers on how to continue.