Hmm, Jeff, helicopters don't have ailerons. They have a cyclic which controls the "pitch" of the rotor head (not actually, it actually changes the way the blades change pitch as they rotate around, but you can think of it as tilting the "effective" rotor disk), allowing for both fore and aft "pitch" control and side to side "roll" control. That's the control most typically between the pilot's legs. The other control, the "collective" is used to change the average pitch of the blades. It may have a throttle also, but often the throttle is auto-controled to keep the rotation rate constant in the face of changing loads due to collective control changes. The "rudder" pedals actually control the pitch of the tail rotor, allowing for "yaw" control of the bird. Lots of "response" interactions between the cyclic and collective inputs, much more so than between the comparable stick and throttle inputs of a fixed wing aircraft.
Hopefully something that can be corrected before going to the publisher. This is offered as contructive critisim. I loved the first 3 books. They are still in my "live" bookcase, not having been relegated to the bookscases in the back bedroom.
The Blackhawk and it's derivitives as well as the Apache, do have a stabilator on the back. I'm not real familiar with just how it's used, but I'm sure if it jammed you'd get a big pitch change, up or down, if you had much forward motion at all, and maybe even if you were hovering as the downwash from the main rotor hit the stabililator. Better to just jam the cyclic control.