Well, I didn’t have a picture of it in the process yet. The window you would be looking through would be the one below the peddles or the one you can barely see. The part that really get’s you is that you have to remember there is 80 feet of aircraft behind you when you do the maneuver.

sit in your office chair and lean back to about 20-30 degrees and look where your feet are and that about what it looks like minus the scenery at about 100 feet. If I remember I’ll try to get a picture of it for you.

No one has crashed a 53 because of a quick-stop. This is a controlled maneuver and one that all helicopters can easily do. We are taught to do this in the TH-57 (bell 206) in introductory helicopter training.

The aircraft doesn’t slow down quick enough to put any g stain on the crew. You’d be able to get more g from slamming on the brakes in your car. The crew chiefs will be standing in the windows just behind the cockpit and have no trouble with this maneuver at all. Our standard is 20-30 degrees nose up depending on…

Aerodynamics is a great thing.

The rotor wash will not be below the helicopter to recirculate back into the rotor to allow settling with power (what Sikorsky calls vortex ring state) and that is why this maneuver works. To settle into your own down wash you need direct down movement - think Jurassic Park when they descend into that canyon with…