Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250; Flight Crew Total 450; Flight Crew Type 155
Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
Just after training in slow flight maneuvers; and upon the completion of clearing turns to clear the area; my student and I began to enter a simulated engine failure scenario. Seconds after establishing best glide speed of the aircraft; my student announced that he saw a helicopter on his side of the aircraft. I looked out his side of the aircraft and saw an EC 135 Eurocopter passing approximately 200 FT below us from left to right. It was a medical type helicopter that services the local area. The event took place in clear conditions in the middle of the local flight training practice area.
C172R instructor pilot reported an NMAC with a medical helicopter in the BVI flight training practice area.