Helicopters and planes are both amazing ways to get up in the air and see your city like never before. However, most people know relatively little about the difference between helicopters and planes. Airplanes are designed to provide a relatively smooth ride for passengers or cargo over a long distance, with optimized fuel efficiency. Other than during takeoff and landing, airplanes travel at a consistent speed in nearly straight lines from one airport to another.
Generally, planes can only make gradual turns. Helicopters, by contrast, can move in any direction—forward, backward, up, down, right and left—which means they are more versatile.
A three-hour airplane ride could mean a hour helicopter ride, not counting the times a helicopter would need to stop for fuel. Airplanes are known for being easier to control than helicopters and some of the larger passenger jets have computerized controls that do most of the work for the pilots. While it may seem as though having more to do would be harder for the helicopter pilot, the truth is that most prefer it this way.
Being able to simultaneously use multiple controls is what allows helicopter pilots to make maneuvers that create the best helicopter tour. When it all comes down to it, the difference that most people care about is how easy or hard it is to get around. While both private jets and helicopters are available for chartering to and from different locations, it is typically harder and more costly to arrange for a private jet simply because they are bigger and require a large airport.
A helicopter charter is easier to reserve and it gives a closer view of the territory that you cover so your trip is more enjoyable. The air travel industry provides you with tons of options for finding the ideal type of transportation to fit your needs. While a plane works great for long distance travel, helicopters have benefits for short rides around the city and sightseeing tours. How do we manipulate all these forces? Well, in an airplane, the pilot uses the control yoke or column and rudder pedals.
In helicopter flying, the collective, cyclic and antitorque pedals control the forces in flight. The collective is a bar or stick, if you will, parallel to the floor of the helicopter, when in the down position.
The collective controls the up and down of the entire helicopter. The cyclic runs somewhat perpendicular to the floor of the helicopter and provides pitch and roll about the lateral and longitudinal axes, respectively.
The cyclic essentially works by changing the tip path plane of the rotor allowing you to maneuver in directions impossible for the fixed-wing pilot. So, yes, you can actually fly backward without help from an excessively strong headwind or hover over a fixed location! While collective and cyclic keep your hands busy, the antitorque pedals demand your feet participate, as well.
In a single rotor system, like those found on many trainer helicopters, pushing on the right pedal, turns the helicopter to the right while pressure on the left pedal, rotates the aircraft left. Their main purpose in life is not to add yet another required movement to flying a helicopter but rather to counteract torque. Torque is the force that causes rotation and is countering the main rotation of the rotor blades. In aircraft flown in the United States, rotor blades rotate counter-clockwise, as viewed from above the rotors.
Antitorque pedals exist then, to counter torque.
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