Originally Posted by
DOUBLE BOGEY
For the Hover TR Failure we have been teaching "DON'T DUMPT THE LEVER". Accept the rotation, keep level disc attitude and slowly lower to the surface allowing the wheels/skids to generate friction to slow the rotation. Dumping the lever with a rapid yaw rate we think will cause the wheels/skids to dig in an lead to a roll over crash.
How are other instructors teaching this failure?
I am now wondering how the Hover technique we are peddling above would translate to what is effectively at TDP, a zero speed hover?[/COLOR]
I'm intrigued at your rationale to justify such a teaching? There is no way that I'd have held the hover and gently lowered the collective following my loss of tail rotor in a high hover, at night, in my BK117. I'd have been in a world of hurt: instant dumping of the collective and a spread set of crosstubes gave a minimal rotation on the deck.
If I'd made contact with a higher rate of rotation then a roll over would have been almost guaranteed.
Apologies for the thread drift.