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Old 17th Jan 2016, 12:30
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When we received our OH-58A's which had un-boosted Tail Rotor Pedals but the standard Jet Ranger style boosted Cyclic/Collective system....coming from the Huey to the Kiowa took some getting used to as the Pedals were hard to move on the Kiowa and very light on the Huey. The mismatch between the boosted flight controls (very light) and the Pedals (Hard to move) confused the Monkey Memory skills for a while.

If you add in Force Trim as on the Huey, 212, 412 and other Types of Helicopters then you can get a "Detent" effect when you reference the controls by means of the Force Trim system. That Detent moves with each application of the Force Trim system by either the On/Off Switch or the Cyclic Release Switch.

The Hughes 500 Pedals were easy to move but sometimes due to T/R rigging would want to creep in one direction or another and had to be braced with a Toe to prevent that.
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