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Old 28th Mar 2006, 12:01
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There is another way. If you have 360 degrees of clearance then push with the cyclic. Then you can fly away and sort out the problem at 60 knots.
There have been many accidents and incidents with helicopters rotating out of apparent control in the hover. An attempt is made to land but the sucessful landing in these cases is usually only made by high time PPLs or experienced CPLs and above.
What you are trying to teach here will be forgotten in a year. It is fine for instructors to teach advanced techiniques for loss of control recovery, but let's be honest, if it happens a year later what is the chance of a student remembering the procedure?
If you fly out a tail rotor problem in the hover, then at least you have a time to sort it out, with possible assistance from an instructor/high time CPL-ATPL who has made it to the tower. You can make practice approaches to explore the controllability of the machine. If you can get to a licenced airfield the fire and emergency services will be having their first day out in months and will be right there for you.
Trying to do a quick procedure is fine for you high time guys, but for the rest of us, we need time to think, plan, rehearse and then execute these things, surrounded by all the assistance we can find.
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