Hi Hillberg,
Perhaps you could help explain procedures for a couple of scenarios from your books?
1. Peter pilot is loitering around at 180 to 250 feet agl at around 10 to 25 knots IAS, moderate timber being 35 to 45 feet. Winds light and variable.
Captain Peter is scanning, scanning for the elusive bovine or etc. Silly sod is concentrating on the bovines, the job, the local bosses daughter, the next pi**up or something - and not thinking about the inevitable - if the noise stops. It does, what does he do with the cyclic and collective?
2. Captain Peter is a silly sod, with the same wind, the very next day he is tooling along at about four feet AGL over an open clay pan at high cruise speed, despite being told many times as a newbie last year not to, and after a great yard up or a great night with the bosses daughter or a splendid night on the turps, inflated with his own ego, and all of the above, at about 1200 hours experience (the most dangerous for mustering pilots) and - not thinking about the inevitable - and dammit the noise stops. What should he do with the collective and cyclic?
This will be any light helicopter 12E, '47, 269 or the fabled 22. He might even be in a 44 or a 206.
Regards.
TET