Originally Posted by
India Four Two
I was at a local airport the other day, visiting an avionics shop and I watched a mechanic at an adjacent hangar, moving an R44 into the hangar.
In order to put the rotor blades fore and aft, he rotated the tail rotor by hand. Is that a permitted practice?
Seems like we all do it, but I've always wondered this as well?
,...primarily due to "safety tip 14" where it states that, "Stopping or rotating the tail rotor by hand can damage the tail rotor drive"
It seems like such an obscure place to put that? If it were a true "caution don't do this" I would image they'd put it somewhere more "out in the open", but I always forget to ask when I'm at RHC,...and I was just there in February!,...ha!