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Old 6th Dec 2018, 22:31
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Originally Posted by n5296s
I'm curious how this could possibly be recovered given any amount of height/speed. As I understand, even entering autorotation wouldn't help - the TR is in full right pitch and you'll just rotate all the way down. I suppose with an infinite amount of good luck it MIGHT be possible to flare and touch the ground with this going on and survive, if the cabin integrity remained. But who could realistically fly an auto while rotating at what, once every couple of seconds?
As I wrote earlier, once the aircraft fuselage begins spinning in yaw, the original trimmed position datum for the cyclic no longer exists because it (the fixed swashplate) is also rotating.
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