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Old 1st July 2010 | 12:43
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fly911
 
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Tail Rotor Torque



1. Hovering into the wind produces 100% engine torque.
2. Your helicopter is transmission limited on torque.
3. Increasing anti-torque pedal to hover crosswind produces a torquemeter reading of 105%.

To me, this is a deceptive torquemeter reading since your transmission is only subjected to 100%. The other 5% while going through the engine torquemeter is being generated by the tail rotor and not being absorbed by the main xmsn.

Anybody out there ignore that extra torque produced by the tail rotor?
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