T/R Failures
For MickJoe and any others that are especially interested ... unhappily I've suffered three T/R failures ... in 14,000 hrs tho' ... (one in hover so it hardly counts) and on request I'd be happy to report in reasonable detail, the sequence of actions that enabled me to put the machines down without damage. Two occasions were Enstrom where the upgoing T/R blade intercepted the LH control cable which in one instance wrapped itself around the T/R swash plate to seize the transmission.
The first occasion was a simple T/R drive shaft that sheared. Quite a few instructors in the UK simulate the T/R fail condition quite well but for starters you can forget most of the advice handed out in manufacturers PFMs. A standard autorotation isn't likely to succeed.
DRK