Originally Posted by
malabo
Is this a thing, or rote pprune Robbie bashing?
No, routine R22 bashing. Practically all my helicopter time is on R44s, which are very nice flying machines - despised primarily by those whose turbine flying time is paid for by someone else.
But when the engine stops, you literally have 1.5 seconds to drop the collective on an R22 - including the time it takes you to realise and react. When people talk about EFATO training in fixed-wing, they assume (iirc) 3 seconds to even realise something has gone wrong. The truth can evidently be less or nobody would have survived an R22 engine failure. But there have nevertheless been numerous fatals when people (including, as in this case, experienced instructors) didn't get the collective down fast enough.