ROTOR SPEED

Setup for Success Collective pitch and a new gas powerplant Maintaining a helicopter in a steady hover requires concentration, good technique, and a proper collective- pitch setup. In this article, I present several techniques I hope will help those learning to hover. I received the following email from Electric Flight's “Heli Talk” columnist Jim Ryan about negative pitch setup. He writes, “It seems to me that the smaller a heli is, the more and more...