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Old 22nd Jun 2022, 20:48
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Reely340
 
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I'm of course lacking any recent experience with decent, full on LTE, but I was amazed to see how wild an attitude a spinning helo can come up with, when the spin had started from calm, level flight.

I'd entertain the idea that in case of full LTE I'd severely point the cyclic at some reference point in the countryside (that would mean to grossly rotate the cyclic while spinning) in an attempt to get the ship to pick up forward speed, that way to stop the spinning (weatherwaning) and do an run-on auto onto the nearest flat surface.
While this would require considerable height, I now regard that stragey to be utterly futile and not praticable, as apparently a fully developed spin will tilt your rotoraxis harshly away from vertical in 2 seconds.

So looking at the linked video I can see where a high impact crash from spinning might have come from.
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