I vividly remember hovering an E480B for a friend as a favor a couple of years back, I had never been in one and the mechanic walked me thru it, and I remember it had a collective friction lever which if let go completely, the collective would go up by itself since it's spring loaded, I remember loosening that thing and being unable to remove my hand from the collective at all because if I did the collective would come up, nasty design characteristic in my opinion, maybe that friction came off at the wrong time.
Last edited by BlenderPilot; 17th October 2006 at 23:12.