Originally Posted by Hummingfrog
In emergency some helicopter flight manuals advise putting the wind off the nose to try and arrange for the downward sailing blade to pass over the tail before it reaches its lowest point.
Not in a Bell 212 otherwise you will get a tailboom strike. In a 212 it was recommended by our Ops Manual that you put the wind about 30 degrees right of the nose (anti-clockwise rotating blades) and applied forward and right cyclic attempting to keep the disk level, thus the blade would actually be flapping upwards as it past over the tailboom, reducing the risk of a tailboom strike.