Terminology: "power"?

[Bearfoot]

Numerous books (e.g., Chickenhawk, Guts 'N Gunships, etc.) refer to increasing or decreasing power at different times. Just to make sure I am reading this correctly, can someone confirm or others correct me when I read this to mean that increasing or decreasing collective pitch rather than throttle? I.e., torque/lift and not throttle power?

[Flamin_Squirrel]

They will be refering to collective pitch but, increasing pitch requires more power and decreasing pitch requires less. However changing power is not something the pilot normally has to worry about directly, as it's done for them, typically by a correlator and governor

[Aginor]

Perhaps I am wrong but I _think_ I remember reading somewhere that Huey pilots actually throttled down the engine a bit during cruise flight to reduce the stress on the engine.

Not sure though, I am not a helicopter expert.

[Tim_Fragmagnet]

Perhaps I am wrong but I _think_ I remember reading somewhere that Huey pilots actually throttled down the engine a bit during cruise flight to reduce the stress on the engine.

Not sure though, I am not a helicopter expert.

 

 

Why throttle down a bit when you could just use the Governor RPM up/down switch to lower the set RPM on the governor?

[Aginor]

I don't know. Perhaps it was an earlier Huey version that did not have the controls like we have it in the DCS Huey?

Or perhaps the person describing it just wrote "throttling down" because he didn't want to have to explain the governor functions to the reader.

[Bearfoot]

They will be refering to collective pitch but, increasing pitch requires more power and decreasing pitch requires less. However changing power is not something the pilot normally has to worry about directly, as it's done for them, typically by a correlator and governor

 

Thanks for clarifying!