Um.. Lifting.. brilliant demo of gyroscopic stabilisation!
Next time you go up there you should convince 'em to let you bring a heli in your back pocket - maybe the one Cattletruck used.
Svenestron, Flying Binghi,
I've been thinking about this in my off moments. I think the heli (lets say Hughes 300 to save any embarasing tail shedding) would actually "fly"
relatively normally. The collective would control "upward" velocity (not acceleration) but would be more sensitive than in 1g. Cyclic would be much less sensitive since only the hinge offset would produce pitch/roll moments, but otherwise would manouvre the heli just fine (as long as inputs were small). Clearly the pedals would be more-or-less centred since there would be much less torque.
The biggest problems i can think of is that you could not generate "downwards" velocity and the twistgrip/collective co-relator would be totally unoptimised for "climb". Lets assume the govenor sorts out the last problem. Lets also assume that oil, hydraulic and fuel sytems have had a zero-g overhaul, so all heli systems behave themselves.
Just for fun, lets assume that the machine has been retrimmed to allow a small amount of negative collective...
So: flyable or not?