To: RotorSpeed/SPS and RW 1
"Rotor's question is a good one. From what I have read it is not really the low "G" condition that kills, it's making the wrong move afterwards. If you give that cyclic (lateral is usually it, one should give aft)
movement prior to loading the rotor back up, boom".
This is probably the very first time I have totally agreed with RW 1 as every thing he said in the above quote it 100%correct
I would like to resurrect the dead horse and beat it a few more times. It is my contention that the 18-degree offset on the Robinson head results in a right cyclic bias in order to fly straight-ahead. When the pilot encounters a zero G condition he is warned to bring the cyclic straight back to reload the rotor disc. When he does this with the right cyclic bias he actually introduces a right roll component. This exacerbates the right roll caused by the tail rotor and he enters into a “violent” right roll. If he counters the right roll by pushing left cyclic he encounters violent flapping loads that result in mast bumping and/or fuselage incursion.
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The Cat