"Chuck" wrote in message
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But, in normal circumstances, a nose heavy rotorcraft would "nose down"
instead of, ummm, well, tail down, for a lack of better words?

I don't know what the phrase "nose heavy" means in that incident report, but
I can't imagine that it actually means what us fixed-wing pilots would
normally think of. There's simply not really any place in the forward area
of the helicopter to load any significant weight that would literally make
the aircraft heavier in the nose than normal. Furthermore, with the whole
helicopter dangling from the rotor, it wouldn't take much change in aircraft
attitude to bring things back into balance.

Whatever the phrase means, the meaning is something only the person quoted,
or the accident investigator knows. They might as well have written
"qwoiyuz amxowq" for all the good the words do anyone not actually involved
with the accident.

Pete