I have a curious technical question for any experienced chopper pilots with hundreds of hours of flight time in different crafts.
Suppose you were given an order to immediately come to a stop and hover in place would this cause the craft and flight characteristics to naturally bring you up in elevation a bit to execute this maneuver?
You would have to pitch the craft nose up to stop quickly wouldn’t you? Would there be any residual climb because of the drastic pitch required to do this fast stop?
Going from a cruise speed to a hover would take time. Maintaining altitude would require a lot of work. I can not recall in my career ever being requested to do this. I flew H-46s for a while, with the twin rotors it could slow down pretty fast.
We would do what was called a “button hook’ fly above tree top at max speed, abeam the LZ, dump the collective, pitch up steeply, full rudder into the turn. The helo would pitch up steeply, the nose would rapidly come around, push the nose down on a very short final.
It was amazing.