I flew the westland lynx in the past, and it had an AFCS which had barometric altitude and heading hold functions. Remove your foot pressure from the pedals and the AFCS would maintain the aircraft heading regardless of the aircrafts direction of travel. Quite handy for making you look good when lifting into the hover! or flying sideways down the runway. There was also a knob on the control panel for minor heading changes (normally less than 10 degrees) but it was interesting for the pax if you decided to more, skidding around the corner in level flight! And then came the landing......not a twitch from the tail......we were professionals.
