T.c. &1000 P.T.'s! Q: Without Damage??
For Thomas coupling: you state "I was trying to recall how many EOL's I've done. Probably well in excess of a 1000 (on singles)."
Sounds hopeful--you're still with us, alive and well!?
Are all those helicopters also well? That is, was that 1000 without damaging any of the ships? (Be honest, now!)
AND are we safe to consider all of those were truly powerless touchdowns, in the sense that the needles were not synchronized before touchdown??
If both are true, then evidently the maneuver CAN be quite safe if carefully done in benign terrain (one wonders, after all the accident rumors), AND we are further impelled to improve training so the low-time guys can be as successful.
To what three major ingredients would you attribute your apparently accident-free 1000 P.T.'s? Share the secret, while we're all still alive!
(Especially needful, since there have been so far no substantive contributions to my proposed 'list of avoidable damage causes' of a few days ago.)