Originally Posted by
Uplinker
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.
Some modern FADEC helicopters don’t have any throttles, only OFF/IDLE/FLIGHT -switches. So I would guess that chopping throttles while in flight is not a certification requirement.
The H145 emergency checklist says lower the collective if in a hover otherwise accelerate/maintain speed above Vy and perform run-on landing or autorotation.