Re: Blackhawk Question
Thanks for the details guys! Some additional comments:
1) The stuff I describe was not tested in flight, it was studied using the research simulators at Sikorsky.
2) NEVER believe a training simulator for these kind of screwy emergencies, it wasn't built to do it right, and it will lie to you, usually making the emergency seem easier. I have set up perhaps 5 training sims, and they are never validated in regimes outside of the normal envelope, yet I have seen pilots try to autorotate at 70% Nr, or sideslip without a tail rotor and climb, and declare these things somehow do-able. The only simulation that can be used for screwy, out of the envelope flight are the research sims that the company's engineers set up specifically to look at the problem, and even then we use a grain of salt with the data. The training sim will give you the hang of it, though, so it is great for practice, just don't count on the aircraft to do what the sim does. The WPB Flight Safety S-76 Sim will allow you to fly out of a TR failure in a high hover (!!!)