LW-Just had a look at the Skadi clip-actually, 4 looks. Hard to say with 100% certainty, but I "think" the tail rotor is slowing down when you get about halfway to the ground. As to why they lost it in the pitch axis-hard to be sure. Couple of things in my mind, but would be pure speculation. Main rotor looks to be at 100% all the way. NAS Jacksonville had a tail drive failure ( later found to be a tail pylon disconnect coupling maintenance issue), and in fact one of the pilots had been in the NAVPRO Office at Stratford doing acceptance test flights on the production models. Did a nice auto to calm seas and all were picked up quickly. Their problem did not initiate in a hover or close to it. and they had the altitude to get things in order.
Last edited by JohnDixson; 13th September 2022 at 11:49.