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Old 14th Mar 2008, 06:37
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spencer17
 
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The servo accumulators should provide assistance for a few seconds, why not in the event of a "jack stall"?
I did not say that you guys experienced a "jack stall" fly like rodeo cowboys.
There are for sure do's and don't's for every aircraft and compared with others the squirrel (A-Star) is very forgiving.
I believe that it can happen but never experienced it myself .
Once a ran into real bad turbulence and probably high disc loads and rapid control movements overcharged the hydraulic system but control forces were only slightly higher then normal. Reducing torque and speed solved the problem. Maybe that was the beginning of a "jack stall", I don't know. But this happened on my worst flight ever. It scared the sh out of me and I'm not easy to scare.

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