Originally Posted by
HeliComparator
Once again I notice that the airspeed, whilst very low at 35 kts, was still quite recoverable when the co-pilot called it. But it took 8 seconds to reach full power by which time it was too late.
The engines on an L2 etc accelerate very quickly, you could probably go from 24% to 100% Tq in 2 seconds and thus have recovered the situation. Less than 2 seconds with a bit of rotor droop.
Which leads to the question raised previously: who is
flying the aircraft?