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Old 16th Nov 2015, 12:37
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Hi Soave_Pilot,

seems like you missed one or two hours in ground school....
Main gear boxes and therefore main rotors are normally rigged with an angle toward the front of the helicopter - which allows more or less level seating while at cruising speed (fuselage level, rotor tilted forward for speed).
The little drawback is, that you hover tail low (rotor level, fuselage tilted backwards)

and I remember my Bell 206 times, with some very interesting high nose up attitudes, cause my weight was just above the weight, where you required an extra weight in front.
Slightly lighter pilots had to carry them...

additional, with a test flight, you can be quite sure, that the EC120 was filled with additional electronics, to record every possible movement, vibration, temperature and so on - which you can see in the clip, is also in the back of the helicopter.
Watched the clip and saw nothin unusual about the attitude of the helicopter.
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