Surely a bit of poor risk/reward analysis in this sad case - it may be essential in very remote bush ops not to shut down the rotor but the Grand Canyon operation hardly qualifies for that does it?
An 'accepted' practice on other types, this is clearly a much more risky thing to do on a 350 (as A3 has highlighted) and was there really a need to do this, just to have a piss, when it would have taken only an extra minute to shut down the head and leave the engine at ground idle or even shut down completely?
Well done TC, you have been reading that 'win friends and influence people' book again
