TeeS wrote:
Shawn, no such thing as a 'full and free' on the 135, however I would have thought there would be plenty of opportunities to recognise a locked cyclic before any major collective lever application was made!
Yes, for sure, but that was obviously not the first time to happen.
Sometime ago this year? Eurocopter released a bulletin, that a locked cyclic ( EC 135 and 145 ) could manually be overridden by relative small force ( the small ballshaped pin below the dashboard breaks off ). As far as I remember, there was a incident/accident in GB???
skadi