Originally Posted by
MightyGem
Yes, in the sim you could save a Lynx from a TRDS failure in the cruise enough to choose when to enter into autorotation. Whether it would work in real life??
That would depend on how it had been programmed, of course.
The important lesson to learn is that there are different types of TR malfunction apart from driveshaft failure and they need some thought, preferably before they occur in the real aircraft - Hence the value of a simulator.