Originally Posted by
chopjock
Don't know if it's safer, I like the idea of being able to control throttle a little if approaching with a tail rotor failure / loss of control etc.
Safer= lower workload and less potential catastrophic failures. For professional pilots it’s not as big a deal perhaps, but for owner operators, there’s no risk of over or under speeding due to throttle and no hot start risk.
The Robbie’s have lots of hot starts from 44 owners moving to 66’s and getting the throttle confused with the R44 setup.