I know it's annoying when people who weren't there try to judge your actions or tell you what your should have done, so I won't do that. I'd be interested to hear (with the benefit of hindsight) whether you would do anything different if faced with the same situation again. Nigelh, not sure why you say "...i can only imagine we would have all done the same...", 'cos I can only imagine I would not have done the same. Also mystified why you don't think the collective would be equally affected if the cyclic "siezed up" due to a hydraulics/servo problem.