High Hover
Right. Let me run through it again. You are in stationary hover at forty feet or thereabouts. You engine or engines, or turbines quit on you. Would it be reasonable to assume that one has a definate problem. The remarks that no one hovers at this height seem incorrect to me, look at any search and rescue, air ambulance or Irak footage. OK now if in this situation there was enough stored energy in your rotors to get you down to earth in a controlled manner, at the overall cost of a slightly slower responce to general cyclic inputs, would you consider this tradeoff worthwhile. I ask this question not to start a rediculous thread which obviously delights some of the piss takers, and I genuinely cannot describe at this date, a theory as to how it can be achieved. I ask the question, seeking genuine comments from professional pilots