Originally Posted by
SASless
I struggle with the announced inability of a Pilot to apply pedal to the stop if the helicopter is yawing.
That should be a natural response....apply that pedal which is required to stop the yaw.....and if you hit the physical stop and the yaw is continuing.....then you have a bonafide emergency to deal with.
Upon hitting the physical limit of the pedal movement....you would have to assess the situation to determine the factors causing that.....and determine what actions are needed and are possible.
Actually, it doesn’t work like this. Hitting pedal stop is indeed common and not a bonafide emergency. It needs to be accepted and sustained to - eventually - bring this yaw to a stop.
Thinking it *was* an emergency (eg loss of TR control) those mishap pilots then “trying to determine the factors causing that” (as you wrote) then get off that presumed ‘ineffective’ pedal, maybe roll of the throttle or try other crazy things that then cause the crash.