HF, in the EC225 pressing the go-around early will recover the aircraft from an onset UP.
Visit the AAIB website and read the report on the Blackpool Accident. These crews were flying mostly by hand in VMC conditions with a very high number of landings. The Commander was vastly experienced in doing this. Yet still they managed to get into trouble in a DVE. You re labouring under the illusion that it could not/would not happen to you if your hand skills are good enough. History proves categorically, time and time again this is a flawed argument.
Good use of automation is a very specific skill set that requires practice and procedure to increase safety and not degrade it. Given what we know of this latest accident I will be bold and say had the crew flown fully coupled it would never have happened. It is that simple.
There has never been an accident caused by loss of AP coupler or Autopilot stabilisation. Flying uncoupled is not the answer here. Flying more coupled is. If all of the above helicopters were flown fully coupled, the accidents would never have happened.
Crews fly uncoupled in DVE because they can. Do you think this option should be removed???
Last edited by DOUBLE BOGEY; 11th Sep 2013 at 02:20.