Originally Posted by
Hilico
Regularly turn the blades by rotating the TR during pre-flight. Never standing outside it when the blades are moving after shut down.
Well that's just it. Not grabbing the tail rotor to stop it after shutdown always seemed like what we used to call, "common sense".
Not turning the tail rotor by hand (like say during preflight) is what always had me wondering,...why? Maybe it was just a typo in the old books?