Mike Becker's Basic Gas Turbines for Helicopter Pilots

Mike Becker's Basic Gas Turbines for Helicopter Pilots

A practical, hands-on, full colour, perfect bound book of over 140 pages containing hundreds of colour photographs, illustrations and diagrams.

OVERVIEW

Ten years in writing, this informative and easy to read aviation theory book on the workings of the helicopter turbine engine is a must for any pilot planning to convert to a turbine helicopter. With the learning pilot in mind it provides graphic details of how the turbine engine works in a helicopter, how to operate a turbine engine, and how to cope with some of the problems you may encounter when operating this type of helicopter.

CONTENTS

History
Jet Propulsion Principles
How a Turbine Engine Works
Air Intake and Filters
Compressor
Combustion
Turbine
Accessory Drive Section
Exhaust Section
Fuel Control Systems
Turbine Engine Fuel
Turbine Engine Lubrication
Seals
Engine Starting, Ignition and Shutdown
Terminology

THE THEORY BEHIND THE SERIES

Mike Becker theory encompasses four main series: Foundational, Advanced, Type Technical and Practical and Procedural.

Mike Becker theory books have been tried and tested in the classroom by hundreds of civil and military students from all over the world who have benefited from the concise, informative and practical writing style. It has been proven by some of the highest Civil Aviation Helicopter theory exam pass rates in FAA, EASA, CASA exam settings, and in the Asia Pacific region.

RELATED

Basic Gas Turbines (BGT) for Helicopter Pilot is part of the Type Technical series of books. When using this book, you may also like to refer to the B206BIII Type Technical book.

THE AUTHOR

Written by Captain Mike Becker – one of Australia’s most experienced helicopter instructors with eighteen years experience and over 10,000 flight instructor hours. He has over 15,000 total flight hours, and is a recipient of the “Captain John Ashton Award for Flight Standards and Aviation Safety” by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of London. Mike Becker has been operating a helicopter flight school since 1995. As Chief Pilot and Chief Flight Instructor, Mike is operating a fleet of over 20 helicopters and employing a team of more than 30 instructors who deliver over 10,000 training hours per year with 2,000 of these hours NVG specific.

SPECIFICATIONS
Weight: 0.55 kg
Dimensions: 30 × 21 × 2 cm

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