Hi all,
it really can be a problem, if you never experienced the differences between power recoverys and real engine offs.
We´ve trained with both engines in ground idle on Bo105 and BK117.
But it is still different, when an engine quits, giving you a lot of captions and sound
Seen the damages, which engines can have (i.e. a loose generator) you really should prepare for loosing the second engine within seconds - but if prepared, the 1 sec reaction time shouldn´t be really a problem.
I´m lucky, that I can spend some hours every year in a simulator (Helisim) and that there we´re not only practice the normal failures, we also do that in the working enviroment, i.e. low level, heavy, confined area and so on.
Seening the differences in chances of survival between flying "Jackie-Boy" or doing it along the manuals has effect in real life.
Still - double engine failure at night over a city is nothing I want to experiance.