shall we join forces?
There must be a bunch of us thinking about improving the fund of in-depth maneuvers/flight descriptions. I cannot see why there is such a shortage of standardized maneuvers parameters, even the FAA mentions Tasks for the PTS that are nowhere laid out in sufficient detail to prevent various different regional interpretations of how the maneuver is to be done. Specific confusional instances: steep approach, max perf TO, full-down auto, coping with POH's that have criminally insufficient performance data (notably R22).
Would you, MPD and gadget, be interested in collaborating on a priority-list of principles needing clarification/standardization/animation, which we could circulate to others of the same mind set? My thought is that there's so little profit in generating advanced educational products for the microscopic helicopter-pilot market that we might as well admit this is a labor of love . . .
Dave
ATP/CFII ASMELGH
Chief Flt Instr, HelicopterAcademy.com