so when I was at the R22 / R44 hangar a month or so back, my boss' boss' boss was there. Retired naval chopper test pilot. >
topic starts: imagine you're hovering in place. Want to climb, so increase throttle. Increases torque on body, so you ++ tailrotor
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but the tailrotor does TWO things: (1) counter main rotor torque (2) push you sideways. So now you need to tilt mainrotor bc #2
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but tilting mainrotor means that you've lost some of the lift you were aiming to get, so now you increase motor RPMs AGAIN, so ...
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