Originally Posted by
Senior Pilot
martinebrangan your total lack of aviation experience (as a long time crash thread junkie) is showing in such an inaccurate statement about pilot input.
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.
Tbh my only experience is as fixed wing private pilot and doing training (couldn’t afford much heli training but had taken to it well) on a R22, and pretty much if you don’t react in that aircraft extremely quickly you are a falling pax. Great to hear you survived a horrible circumstance and you can wisely advise on how one can survive with a measure of control and good luck.