10 Habits for Helicopter Pilots and the Instructors Who Train Them

Ten small habits, refined over fifty years in the cockpit.

I spent twenty-one years as a factory test pilot at Bell Helicopter Textron, and the rest of a fifty-year career instructing pilots at every level. This book is the distilled version of what I've learned about how you actually hold the cyclic, how you set up an approach, how you read the wind without looking at an instrument — the small, easy-to-miss refinements that quietly separate good pilots from great ones.

It's intentionally short. Ten habits, not a textbook. Whether you're a student working through your first hours or an instructor looking for a sharper way to explain what you already know, this book is built to be read in an evening and returned to for years.

Includes both PDF and EPUB formats, so you can read it on any device — phone, tablet, e-reader, or computer.