Jean-Gabriel Larroche

Jean-Gabriel Larroche posted in Rotorcraft

5 years ago Public

Good evening to the rotary wing community. As a CPL, FI, FE and head of training in a small helicopter DTO in France, I'm also working as an ATCO at a regional airport. Always keen on learning and sharing all material and infos related to helicopter operations, especially VFR ones and those related to training. Fortunate enough to have been trained by and learned a great deal from Peter Gillies, former chief pilot at Western Helicopters (CA) and author of numerous, "must read" articles about helicopter training and safety ones published in former Autorotate Mag. All the very best to you all.

Michel MASSON
Michel MASSON • 5 years ago

Welcome, Jean-Gabriel!

I also invite you registering in the ESPN-R Group on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7453300/

Concerning the "must read" articles about helicopter training and safety you mentioned, are they published in the internet? Could you please provide the website link?

Best wishes,
Michel, EASA, ESPN-R Coordinator

Jean-Gabriel Larroche
Jean-Gabriel Larroche • 5 years ago

Good evening to you all :) !
Concerning the "must read articles" I mentioned, there were published in Autorotate MAG, a former parent publication from the Professional Helicopter Pilot Association (PHPA) between 2000 and 2010. Peter (Pete) Gillies was one of the regular contributor of this magazine with a column titled "Purely Pete". Many topics (autorotation training, confined area landing, dealing with the wind, all kind of emergency maneuvers...) were treated but with the insight of a field expert, so not necessarily with the "by the book" style...
Unfortunately, I didn't succeed in retrieving the web link about these articles. I have a personal collection of a PDF format of each one, but, nevertheless, please find this link about AIN related to the conclusions of an EMS ASTAR accident investigation years ago in the US. Pete had been interviewed by the NTSB about it and had taken the opportunity to talk about one of his favorite subjects for decades, the autorotation entry when dealing with a real, not training, engine or transmission failure.https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/201….

All the very best to you all !

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