When I said that we helicopter drivers are "simple folk" I wasn't casting nasturtiums at Nick or John. I was referring to the way that things need to be simplified for students to understand them, but the simplification makes the student believe the wrong thing.
Many years ago, Nick put out a list of Helicopter Urban Myths, and among the myths were the misconceptions such as:
"The rotor system IS a gyroscope", rather than "it sometimes behaves LIKE a gyroscope."
"There is an area of high pressure air under the hovering disc, and this makes a cushion of high pressure air that the aircraft sits on". Bong! Wrong!
"Flapping to equality is happening all the time, so the advancing blade is flapping UP to equalise the lift."
O. M. G.......