Patent ID: 8777152

Claim:
A method of piloting an aircraft having at least one rotary wing comprising a plurality of first blades having a first variable pitch in order to provide the aircraft at least with lift, said aircraft being provided with a tail rotor suitable for swiveling to go reversibly from an anti-torque mode of operation in which said tail rotor is suitable for controlling the yaw movement of said aircraft to a propulsion mode of operation in which said tail rotor is suitable for swiveling about a swivel axis to control yaw movement in vector manner on either side of an antero-posterior first plane (P 1 ) of symmetry of the aircraft and to control propulsion of said aircraft, at least in part, said tail rotor having a plurality of second blades having a variable second pitch and rotating about an axis of rotation (AX), said axis of rotation presenting a variable first salient angle (θ) relative to said first plane (P 1 ), said method comprising: in the anti-torque mode of operation, controlling said second pitch using first control means; and in the propulsion mode of operation, controlling the first salient angle (θ) using said first control means and controlling said second pitch using second control means.