Originally Posted by
Senior Pilot
.........A well trained helicopter pilot can recognise and contain the outcome of a TR failure in a number of ways, depending on the circumstances. In this case an immediate cutting of the throttles (or possibly lowering of the collective) would reduce the torque to the MR and arrest the rotation. Further action can reduce the impact; been there, done that and survived.
Originally Posted by
megan
.......Some cockpit set ups re throttles and collective set up don't really permit adequate handling of such events (single pilot and throttles in the roof).
That's what I wondered: in the fixed-wing airliner world, you have your hands and feet on all the relevant controls during take-off and landing, so you can chop the thrust while keeping other hand and feet on all the flight controls. With engine thrust levers in the roof, how would you chop power without taking your hand off the collective or cyclic - if you didn't have engine controls on the collective ? Genuine curiosity.
Originally Posted by
Bell_ringer
It's a twin, perfectly safe
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Not twin tail-rotor though, sadly.
I've recently started to wonder why helicopters don't have twin independent tail rotors - driven independently - given that loss of same seems to be only marginally survivable ?
I am not trying to be be clever or judgemental here. Genuine curiosity. (Cost and weight are two obvious reasons).