A couple of questions
OK, I'm wrong and you are all right however I would like to pose the following questions to the pilots out there and not the engineering graduates although you are involved in this also.
I have a couple of questions.
1) When you learned principles of flight for helicopters did your instructors use the term centrifugal force when addressing the loads on the blades or rotorhead or, did they use the term centripetal force?
2) If you attended higher level classes in engineering and / or physics you most likely learned about centripetal force? If this is the case and your POF instructors addressed centrifugal force as opposed to centripetal force which theory do you embrace in your daily operations of your helicopter or if you are a mechanic when you work on the helicopter?
This poll will be on PPRuNE as well as on this forum.
Please no sarcastic responses. Just respond to the questions.