The British military used the AS 350BB with a single hydraulic system as a basic trainer for 20 years flying tactical and low level profiles at high speed and managed not to experience jackstall/servo transparency in thousands of flying hours.
As I said before you have to be ham-fisted to get it to do that - stunting and bunting at high AUM with limited experience is a pretty good recipe though.
Agreed. I did about 90 hrs on the Squirrel AS350 and it was very reliable. Quickstops and confined areas were comfortably handled by thousands of hamfisted students like me. Loss of hyds in the sim was recoverable and not too uncomfortable either. Glad I never saw it for real. RIP.