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ColeTrickle
 
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Q from a Fixed-Winger: are heli controls self-centering?

Hi all,
a question rose under our little plank-flyers group: are helicopter flight control self-centering? In most fixed-wing aircraft the controls (above all rudder) return to or near a center position (almost like there being a spring centering them).

What about your machines? Are there forces centering the (fly)stick/rudder?

My heli introductory flight was way in the past and that little R22 was seemingly so focused on trying to kill me, I was not able to store any bit of the experience in long-term memory ;-)

Best Regards

Cole
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