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Old 5th Oct 2005, 14:07
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NickLappos
 
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Flingwing207,
Your logic, if carried to extreme:
If you bash your tail cone into a mountain along the right side, and your aircraft yaws right and "does not subside of its own accord and, if not corrected, can result in the loss of aircraft control." So I guess if you hit a mountain, you experience LTE!

If you pull the rotor rpm down to your socks because you requested too much power, and you are too numb to the cues that your aircraft is screaming at you, you have LBP, loss of brain power. If you treat it as a yaw problem, you have so purely missed the point contained in "pilot in command" that perhaps it is time to hang it up.

The reason why the distinction is made is that the causes and cures are different, as is the aerodynamics. If you blur it all together, you will never actually understand nor control your environment. I know of pilots who lost roll control due to rpm droop, should we call that LCE loss of cyclic effectiveness?
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