Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
Megan, that sounds REALLY scary and a mite unsurvivable outside the sim. Look at some videos of tail fails in a hover and see how fast those things spin - and very rapidly some nose down pitch comes in, or the aircraft rolls, and the aircraft is no longer level, it is rotating tail low/tail high/tail low and very disorientating. Tail then hits the ground. In the Huey in the 70s, we used to practice slamming the right pedal forward to demo how fast it could spin - the feeling of being thrown forward against the seat belt is strange and upsetting.
In the sim, it would be interesting to see the coupling that happens after a high-powered spinning climb to 1000' and then trying to poke the nose over. Splat follows soon after.
In the 76B sim at WPB, they just taught me to grab the throttles back and make some sort of controlled LEVEL crash.
I can only keep coming back to my own experience: no way on God's earth that I would contemplate retarding overhead speed selects, nor climbing out. If you don't get that collective down in a heartbeat then you're along for the ride.
Previously unpublished images the morning after the night before: