Why is piloting a helicopter considered more challenging, despite not requiring much space to take off and land and being able to stabilize in the air and stand still?
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I don’t necessarily think it’s more difficult. Learning to fly a helicopter certainly is more difficult to do certain things but they can be learnt relatively quickly then after a while flying becomes second nature. If professional pilots were finding it *difficult* to fly everyday then we probably shouldn’t be flying helicopters at all.
It’s simply a different skill set.
Helicopters are evolving too. A lot of replies have stated that helicopters are inherently unstable. Which sure that’s mostly true but modern helicopter afcs is very good! Even helicopters with crappy old afcs have trim systems so you can in fact trim your helicopter and let go of the controls and not crash immediately.
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