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Old 2nd Nov 2020, 16:59
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Originally Posted by Bell_ringer
It’s a phenomenon where an aircraft tries to punish the pilot for demonstrating his superior skills and inferior footwork.
Ha ha, that's awesome, love it!

To answer your quesiton, Robbiee, per the paper, what everyone likes to call LTE is instead "unanticipated yaw", because at no point does the tail rotor demonstrate any ineffectiveness. It could be called "loss of pilot foot control" Per the paper, if the pilot lets significant yaw rates develop it can take quite a bit of time to get it stopped, but assuming full pedal deflection it will stop. If the pilot does everything else necessary, such as maintaining altitude and position, it should stop without the helicopter doing anything else untoward. You really should read the paper.

Edited to add: unanticipated yaw (incorrectly termed "LTE") is not the same as stuck pedal is not the same as tail rotor failure.
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