thank you nick, thank you,
overpitching at last, instead of more of this crap about lte.
obviously if you run out of main rotor rpm you will lose tail rotor effectiveness. if the wind changes speed you get loss of tailrotor effectivness.
the chance of weather cocking with a heavy load load at altitude is to be totally expected and not a consequence of lte but a case of no more power available, something has to give.
i know why pilots like to think lte was to blame, it's because it is a good excuse for bad handling or inattentiveness.
better than telling the boss that you overpitched his machine and bent it.
"it had nothing to do with me boss", "it was that bloody lte phenomena", or "I could still pull pitch so i must of had more power left, then it started spinning all by itself".
thanks again nick for the reality check.
