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The third engine on the EH=101 is certainly needed, and without all three running, it falls pretty fast. I got a few emails from folks in the last few days with info.
The dead man's curve (where an engine failure will create a crash) is quite large on the EH-101, making those comments about an "extra engine" just not true. In spite of the protests of rotorpilot, the top of the dead man's curve for the EH is said to be over 400 feet on a hot day, and the bottom is supposed to be around 25 feet. That means from the hover at anywhere in between, you must land hard when one engine stops. Is that right, RotorPilot?
If the aircraft is anywhere near MGW, it will come down. and at MGW it has a Catagory A landback distance that is large. I have heard that it needs 1,000 ft runway at MGW, and that to do a small heliport vertical procedure, it must drop 5,000 lbs of GW.
As other folks have asked, where are your numbers, rotorpilot? Are you a rotor pilot?