[Orv Neisingh]

This is why it is important to complete ones helicopter training in a timely manner. The student pilot needs to be able to over ride the control inputs learned in their airplane emergency training and learn the proper helicopter control inputs. Airplane control inputs in an emergency in a helicopter can be deadly. In an airplane one learns that if the airplane wing stalls the pilot pushes the elevator control forward to increase airspeed and decrease the angle of attack. That same input of pushing the cyclic forward, under most conditions, will unload the helicopter semi rigid rotor system and can cause one blade to swing up wildly contacting the rotor mast (mast bump) while the other blade swings down severing the tail boom. Practice your helicopter emergency procedures often so that if and when you need them you have the "muscle memory" to correctly respond.