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Old 2nd Aug 2018, 10:47
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Ascend Charlie
 
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"Reduced Tail Rotor Authority" or just simply "Running out of tail rotor"?

Don't confuse a poor technique with some real or imaginary series of unavoidable events. Perhaps I am just lucky, having flown for 45 years and 15000 hrs, of which over 8000 were in that pesky 206, and never ran out of pedal. Always was aware of where my feet were, the rate at which that left foot was moving forward, the position of the collective, the power available, if any, the relative winds, and always keeping an escape path to fly away. LTE is horsefeathers. An invention to cover a lack of tail rotor power from the design stage. Despite what some FAA publication says, it is horsefeathers. Remember that those same publications tell you that "gyroscopic effect" is real, that "flapping to equality" is happening in forward flight, and that there is a "ground cushion" of higher pressure under the rotor in the ground hover.

All designed to allow the most rockape of student to understand his rockape instructor who only has 100 hours more than he does, and to grasp some basic concepts.
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