As the S-92 requires a lot of torque to the tail rotor, even in cruise, is this aircraft even capable of surviving a total loss of tail rotor thrust? Did SAC actually test their flight manual procedures to show the aircraft can be successfully autorotated with no tail rotor thrust?
Loss of thrust as in a fixed pitch situation, as opposed to loss of drive or complete loss of the unit are 2 completely different situations. Nick took the time to explain to me a number of years ago the relationship of the disk of the turning tail rotor and its effective vertical fin area. So, loss of DRIVE to the tail rotor means you have lost that fin area that would assist in keeping the a/c from swapping ends......