I was always taught ( in an R22 ) to turn left - against the torque - wherever possible, because if you turned right and raised the lever or had a failure which required more right pedal, you were already using right pedal so the chances were the problem became serious much more rapidly. Besides, if you took off the left pedal input, the aircraft naturally wants to stop rotating rather than requiring a bootful of left to stop.
Because Gazelles swing the other way, is this not the same sort of phenomenon ?
[This message has been edited by The Nr Fairy (edited 19 February 2001).]