I was going to take an ex girlfriend up for a ride in an R-22. Now this before we had a governor, the old manual throttle!! As we're warming up the engine, I give her my safety briefing....which usually ends in....DON'T TOUCH NOTHING! Great flight, no problems, no nothing! I set up an orbit over Dodger Stadium, and she wants me to orbit on her side. So I bank it over to her side, and pull back to make a turn to orbit her side. She screams, grabs the collective, and completely twists the throttles WIDE open, this poor little R-22 YAW'D so quick, I quickly bring it back into the green, and tell her not to touch the
controls!! Needless to say, I now remove the pax controls! Damn near left a balloon knot shape in the seat when I got out of the 22!!!
