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Old 7th Dec 2013, 08:43
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John Eacott
 
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R-B,

The S76 has an enormously forgiving undercarriage, along with a torsion bar that pushes down on the other main gear and equalises the load on touch down. On the original C30 powered S76A the drill for SE failure in the hover was to lower the collective and let the U/C take the load rather than cook the good engine.

But the Maintenance Manual will have a few pages of checks following a bingle of the sort shown in the photo
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