I had six T/R failures in the RotorWay 162POS, uh, I mean 162F. Most of them were recoverable by getting the tailrotor to stop stalling (yes it can) and nursing it back.
The most exciting was one in which I didn't take it away from the student until it had already wandered halfway off the asphalt and was halfway over the desert - a drop of about six inches.
If I'd chopped it then we'd have hit while turning on that uneven surface and rolled.
So I had to keep it in the air, while keeping the cyclic pointed East, until I had black blur on both sides. Then I chopped it and sat it down. No worries.
They told me later that the guys in the sales office were diving under their desks as I came spinning toward their floor-to-ceiling window.
Fun!
