Twin-Engine Helicopter

Most twin-engine pilots transition onto the aircraft, learn the systems, and then go fly it exactly like the single they came from — same takeoffs, same approaches, same habits. The second engine just sits there, unused, until the one day it's actually needed.

This book is about closing that gap. Written by a CFI with fifty years in the cockpit, it lays out the specific habits — takeoff profiles, approach techniques, decision points — that put your second engine to work for you before you ever need it. Nothing in it is complicated. None of it requires a course, a checkride, or an examiner watching over your shoulder. It just needs doing the same way, every time, until it stops being a technique and becomes how you fly.

Inside:

- Why the "lose an engine, fly away on the other one" mental picture is incomplete — and what it's missing

- A full walkthrough of Category A takeoff and approach profiles, adapted for VFR operators

- Real scenarios drawn from decades of training twin-engine pilots

- A dedicated chapter on handling an engine fire in flight

- A quick-reference recap of every habit in the book

You paid for two engines. This book is about flying like it.

*Twin-Engine Helicopter: A VFR Pilot's Guide to the Transition and the Instructors Who Guide Them*, by Laurent (Larry) Larocque, CFI.