now it also includes the myth of lte, a pilot induced phenomena.
or phobis perhaps?? All of which including technicalities was covered in a recent thread on the subject.
However it is coincidental that this LTE subject has been again raised.
Point 1)
Fairly recently I overheard a story from the far north of oz.
Seems an instructor operating in a remote location with several hill billy students returned a helicopter (R22) to its owners with some damage.
To wit; a broken bracket on the T/R pedal console assy and a bent support at the aft end of the T/R control rod at the rear of the cabin.
This feat apparently bemused all of the locals and it was put down to the simple pucker factor that is encountered as the ground approaches at initial auto training with a very strong and heavy footed student.
The answer to the irate owners question of what the f*** happened here were all batted of in the style of Manuel from FaultyTowers with, I know nuththing!
Point 2)
More recently there was a story about the same instructor, himself a very heavy chappie, doing what was described as an LTE exercise from the hover which went like this;
Left pedal is slammed forward to the stops and the student is to recover by rolling off the throttle and landing.
Yep that is right re-read that, that is how I heard it!! The story goes that the left pedal application was always violent.
Now perhaps the damage may be as the result of landing stresses from suggested LTE exercise, or heavy footed pedal slamming or who knows what.
One thing for sure if the chappie (who is rumoured to come from Perth) ever tried it with me it would be the end of him for sure. Can anyone make sense out of it???
I doubt that any of the students involved will comment here owing to the remoteness of their location. You know, right - out in the sticks like they - reckon. And yer cn say that again slowly.
One of the students learnt so much from the school where he did his PHL and also on the way past his Fixed wing BFR that he, is rumoured to have later;
a) forced landed onto a highway on the way home in such fierce rain conditions that he tore most of the wing leading edge paint off (a cross hired C172 mind you), then tried to pass it off as a bad paint job, and
b) later again with a brand new second hand F/W of his own whilst conducting mustering operations in a commercial sense as a PPL managed to write off said F/W as a result of the fuel tanks being contaminated with too much fresh air.
Strange that.
cheers tet