Comments on: LTE http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=323 AOPA's Helicopter Blog Sun, 19 May 2013 12:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ehud Gavron http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=323#comment-1045 Ehud Gavron Fri, 28 May 2010 19:57:15 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=323#comment-1045 Your article is timely! This morning I was flying in an R-44 in Las Vegas, and we had 22kts g28. I had a CFI with me [they don't "rent" R-44s]… and we had a nice chat about “left quartering wind bad!” When teaching about VRS, the use of the term “Settling With Power” instead confuses people into thinking it requires “settling” (going down)… VRS obviously can occur when any rotor blade is operating in already-accelerated air either through its own force or that of the relative wind.

Another instructional “oversight” is that a LOT of time is spent on recovery from other conditions (low rotor RPM, low-G condition in an aircraft sensitive to that…) but almost NO time is spent on LTE recovery procedures. I was happy to see your article sum it up!

I wrote the original LTE article on Wikipedia… but others have tremendously improved it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_tail-rotor_effectiveness

If granted permission I’ll link to this article from it.

Ehud Gavron
Las Vegas Nevada
(temporarily. real home Tucson AZ)

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