Originally Posted by
Robbiee
The way good (experienced) Robby instructors deal with the death grip, is to instruct the student to place their three back fingers on the collective so that only the thumb and indext fingers are lightly touching the throttle. This way as the student tightens their grip it doesn't override the governor.
I was taught this in 2003 and still do it to this day.
I wasn't taught that... but used to do it as a low hour pilot. I found later on when I started instructing it prevents you from manipulating the throttle... mainly in tail rotor failures and governor off ops.
Any sign of tension in a student should be addressed, but it can be a bit of work. Much easier to get them to hold the collective differently and tick a box but you are setting them up to fail.