Short instructional clip (YouTube) by Kenny Keller explaining the correct terminology and recovery action for a helicopter low-G event: the recovery is called 'gentle aft cyclic' — emphasizing that pilots should use that specific phrasing and avoid abrupt 'bump' inputs which can damage the tail boom. The clip is a brief training note and reminder.
I want to hit key terminology, the three words for recovery from low G, which. The key terminology is gentle aft cyclic. I was doing some ground the other day with a student, and we're talking about low Gene. He said, oh, yeah, bump the aft cyclic. And I said, no, not bump the aft cyclic. Where did you get that at? It's gentle aft cyclic. In some specific helicopters, if you made too large of an abrupt aft input, you could chop off the tail boom. So not a good thing. So the recovery for a low G situation is gentle aft cyclic. That's pretty much the way it's written, and that's the terminology that you should use, because if you got yourself into that low G situation, you'd need to put a gentle aft cyclic input to reload the rotor system and then correct for the roll. So this is one time where you don't want to use your own terminology and just something that sounds close. The terminology for recovery from low G is gentle aft cyclic. So commit that to memory, use that as your recovery procedure, and you should be good. So please click the like button. Thanks for stopping by, and we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks.
