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Old 19th January 2006 | 04:41
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rotorfloat
 
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I would say that use of cyclic after an autorotative landing will have no effect. Rotor RPM has been consumed to cushon the landing, and there wouldn't be much thrust available from the disk afterwards (the same reason you aren't getting any directional control from the tail rotor).

It is important to let friction with the ground do it's job to slow the helicopter, lowering the collective slowly after touchdown . It may be instinctive to pull aft on the cyclic to slow the aircraft down, but this can lead to the main rotor striking the tailboom. It is also automatic for us to have a full bootful of pedal applied during the last portion of the run on, trying to keep the nose straight, which doesn't hurt at all.
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