Originally Posted by
Thomas coupling
I can assure you that once a tail rotor DRIVE failure is presumed - then the engines are chopped in a Sea King .................................................. However in a Tail rotor CONTROL failure situation the engines are NOT chopped. Is that what you meant?
No not control failure, loss of t/r thrust as in drive failure (in the cruise).
TC Don't you just put the lever down to reduce the torque? - lot's of bad accidents (like the Brazillian one) where the engines are chopped and the RRPM are allowed to collapse - lot's of references on this thread from people about shutting off engines - just lower the lever - unless you deliberately want collapsing RRPM for some odd reason - play with the engines later if you want to. Incidentally will a Sea King sustain controlled level flight without t/r? I remember reference to the yaw stability of the S92 not allowing for this and possibly swapping ends
Sven SixTwo said "But I do know that we were NEVER taught to chop power as an early action for a TR failure" - lever down, right?