Originally Posted by
megan
AC, was in the 76A at WPB back in the 80's. Can only assume it was something dreamt up by the instructor involved, as I said the sim would do it, but as I further said, placed absolutely no faith in the procedure. As John says,collective down, no time for procrastination.
I wouldn't place a lot of faith in realism in the S76 sim for these kinds of failures. For a start, it was demonstrated after the 2009 GoM S76 fatal accident that the rotor decay modelling in the simulator was miles out - I think about 7 seconds to unrecoverable Nr if the collective wasn't lowered following dual power loss, vs about 2-3 in reality.
I also used to fly in the FSI B212 sim in DFW, and was on the receiving end of all kinds of strange instructor-derived advice on handling TR failures - based on how the sim was replicating it. To illustrate how fictitious it was, in some extra time at the end of a session, where we were 'playing' on an aircraft carrier model at night, I asked for a TR drive failure soon after transitioning from the deck. I was able to catch it using sideslip, find an airspeed/power combination that allowed me to carry out a wide climbing circuit and then autorotated back down to the deck from around 1,000 ft. Lots of whooping from the back, and congratulations, but all I could think was "are you serious? Do you really think that's how the aircraft would behave in real life?"