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ur on the edge of running out of cyclic control.  If you've never been there trust you don't want to!  Flew for an operator who reconfigured a BH47 and forgot to replace the aft ballast on reconfiguration thus some subsequent pilots ran out of aft cyclic occasionally.  DO said everyone was full of it, until on a demo flight displaying the merits of the BH47 vs the H300C he crashed on landing with the 'clients' on board.

Thus another adventure of the most inept DO in the historic annals (anals?) of east coast helicopter operator epics.