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Old 6th Mar 2024, 10:35
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Ascend Charlie
 
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Crab, when Bloggs loses it, starts to spin and then the attitude begins to wobble, the first thing to do is stop the spin.The secondary effect of pedal will further disturb the attitude, but once the spin stops, the attitude can be made flat again.

Then fix the height. If Bloggs jerks the lever, the secondary effects make him spin and change attitude. Giving him lever and cyclic is difficult because of the secondary effects of lever. Lever and pedals is the better way to build up.

Remember the principles of instruction:
Go from easy to difficult
From known to unknown

At the beginning, start with the easy ones, pedal alone and then collective alone. Confidence builders. Cyclic first will dishearten the student right from the start when they don't pick it up instantly. Everybody wants instant gratification. But nearly every student will get a confidence boost from working the pedals alone, then lever alone, then pedals and lever. When they are used to looking to the distance for the directional reference, and peripheral vision for height, they are prepared to look for the hover attitude.

When we went through air force training on Hueys, nobody mentioned a hover attitude - it was "Stop moving!" When I came back to choppers after years of instructing on jets, the method had changed to "hover attitude". Unconsciously, that was what we had eventually done, but hearing it said in the classroom was a light coming on - "Why didn't they say that in the first place?"
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