Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
For an experienced pilot/sim instructor to be teaching pilots to "get their hands off of the controls" makes my skin crawl..
In the S76 that is what you do. Feet on the floor. Hands off the controls. Control inputs come via pushing buttons or trim switches or turning knobs. Or, as SAS correctly pointed out, you can bump the cyclic flight control against the force trim spring pressure to make small adjustments on a precision approach. There is nothing that can go so wrong with the system or the aircraft where you need to be guarding the controls. Hands are sufficiently within reach to respond to any system disturbance that would require hands to go back on the controls. That is how you do it.