4Rvibes,
First, I want to point out that PP8 and PP9 were not fitted with rotorbrake,nor with a sonar winch.However, the hydraulic system remains the same.Looking at the diagrams, I tried to understand what you said.
In your Dec 09 comment, you write that the rotorbrake was hydraulically disabled. To me, it means that even in the event of the r/b being activated,there is no hydraulic power to operate it. Furthermore, I fail to see why another hydraulically powered system could activate the rotor brake. Many other systems are powered by IHPS 3 ( n3 Integrated Hydraulic Power System). Again, they only use hydraulics as a way to be powered, and all have their own independant way to be activated. In the same way, we could say that any action on the cyclic would move the commands servos, and in some way drop the undercarriage!!!!!
To finish, you state " A hideous amount of burning.........made the pilot to ditch [ and so say all of us]". What does the pilot himself has to say? No matter what all of us can say, only the crew flying the a/c on the day can tell us what happened. Then again, I
was also guilty to speculate on the reasons of the ditching.........
[This message has been edited by Pat Gerard (edited 15 December 2000).]