Patent ID: 7873445

Claim:
A governor configured to regulate the rotational velocity of one or more rotors of an aircraft by adjusting a collective blade pitch of the one or more rotors, the governor comprising: a control monitor configured to monitor one or more flight control inputs that are controllable by an operator of the aircraft; a maximum pitch module configured to dynamically determine a maximum collective blade pitch based on the one or more flight control inputs monitored by the control monitor; a rotor module configured to monitor information related to the rotational velocity of the one or more rotors; and a pitch adjustment module configured to (i) receive the information related to the rotational velocity of the one or more rotors from the rotor module and (ii) adjust the collective blade pitch of the one or more rotors to regulate the rotational velocity of the one or more rotors, wherein the pitch adjustment module is constrained by the determined maximum collective blade pitch determined by the maximum pitch module such that as the pitch adjustment module adjusts the collective blade pitch of the one or more rotors the collective blade pitch remains below the maximum collective blade pitch.