EASA Handling Unanticipated Yaw (topic of the year) video now with an accompanying article, Dec. 15, 2023
https://www.easa.europa.eu/community/topics/handling-unanticipated-yaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg5WtgthVyc

Unanticipated yaw is a high-risk phenomenon that can result in Loss of Control In-Flight (LoC-I) accidents, the number one killer also for rotorcraft.

This video is about a professional pilot that performs a training landing as part of an exercise with firefighters. During the short final, he experiences and recovers from unanticipated yaw. Pilots must be aware of and understand the risk of an unanticipated yaw and know how to prevent and recover from it. The key message is: Be prepared to experience unanticipated yaw and should that happen, decisively apply full opposite pedal to stop the yaw and recover control over the situation.

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