PruneFan:
What makes you think that in a normal HEALTHY helo [one which has a greater buffer before entering its LTE envelope] in the SAME SCENARIO, there would have been an Nr drop, a slight counter yaw .....and nothing else of signifigance. The pilot in the 'normal' helo would then have checked down on the collective, possibly missing the stands maintaining fwd 'controlled' flt. It is abundantly clear on the video that he enters a sharp defined and rapid counter yaw - that sonny, is the LTE kicking in.
[I'm not saying that would have mitigated his choice of LZ in the first place, but he could have escaped with his pants on fire IF, repeat IF he hadn't entered LTE...it was this that finished him off.
Argue otherwise????????????????
Last edited by Heliport; 5th December 2005 at 07:56.