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Old 4th Dec 2022, 15:47
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Originally Posted by SASless
You got it....the follow-up question is how does one correct for that in angles of bank at say Sixty degrees or greater and does Collective input create a rolling input?
Easy, you roll the wings level.

With the Lynx pitch roll couple - which sounds identical to what JD describes - it is the amount of left cyclic required to roll out that catches people out - you need at least twice as much as you would expect and you can end up with a left cyclic control position that in level flight would produce a smart left roll but in the hard right turn just about prevents further right roll.

If you add more collective - because you realise you are getting close to the ground and get scared - you just exacerbate the pitch/roll couple as you have increased loading of the disc.

The answer - as in RBS - is to reduce the severity of the manoeuvre.

IE, unload the disc since it is the rate of pitching that is causing the rolling.

Trouble is, if you put yourself into this situation close to the ground, you have limited options so don't use high AoB close to the ground in a right turn - simples. Trying to make yourself push the cyclic forward in this condition is difficult psychologically.
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