Re: Blackhawk Question
Don't for a second believe the training sim on how it behaves in a TR failure, except after you enter the autorotation. The problem is that there is no real data to validate the sim with, and the complex cross couplings (yaw to roll, yaw to pitch interactions) and near stall behaviors are WAY beyond what training sims are designed to do. It fools everybody, because the cockpit looks great, the instruments all work, and the thing behaves sort of like it should, but it is flat wrong to believe it if you are out of the normal flight envelope.
Trust me on this, I have been the test pilot who gathered the flight data and then tried to make the training sims behave like the aircraft. It is hard enough making it look real within the envelope. Outside, it is no better than a guess, and any similarity between what the sim does and what the aircraft does is luck. To write an emergency procedure for an extreme maneuver based on a training sim, and then hope it will work in the real world is a recipe for disaster.