Hey, it's Kenny with Helicopter Online Ground School. A Helicopter Online Ground School members sent in the question, "As a fixed wing pilot on my discovery flight, I chased the nose attitude with the collective. Took me a day to analyze that mistake. I was wondering if you...

Cyclic & Collective Basic Control Inputs

This controls that's in your right hand is what we call the cyclic. When you're in a hover, we're using this control to keep us centered in one place. Now the trick to use it is a series of tiny movements, or tiny pressure changes. We often say it's...