Helicopters are useless and dangerous!!
Can we get back to the 50 feet situation. 50feet in a Robinson, Rotorway Exec, or any two seat very light helocopter. No airspeed. Sudden engine failure, .No warning. Has anyone ever been in this situation?. A friend of mine had a power failure at about fifteen feet whilst accelerating through that part of the height velocity chart that indicated one had a reasonable chance of making a landing in an emergency. It required a JCB to extract the machine from where it was embedded in the ground, and this was in a three bladed machine with reasonably heavy blades, but the unexpected caught him out. Dont worry Slowrotor in was not an Enstrom.