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Old 29th December 2015 | 19:30
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Flying Bull
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Hi Marly Lite,

as AAKEE says, if you don´t dump the collective immediately, you get a very high rate of rotation, which increases the risk of being killed.

You have to condition yourself to accept a hard landing in case of hoverfailures in favour of surviving.
The tendency of pilots is to try to control the bird - which leads to desaster.

I actually know a pilot, who got a big reinforced plastic bag into his fenestron - and he said, his simulatortraining - putting the bird instantly down - saved his day.
Christoph 13 nach Zwischenfall nicht mehr flugfähig (2x ergänzt) | rth.info - Faszination Luftrettung | Rettungshubschrauber online

Surf the internet and see, what happens, if pilots try to cope with tail rotor problems...



should have accepted the fate of being in the water - but you can see, how fast the spinng starts...

and that french army puma could still be flying, when the pilot would have accepted a hard landing - instead....



So I won´t spend any time in trying to kill an engine - before being on the ground.
Rather have some bend skids/wheels and walk away - as you know, every landing, you can walk away from is a good landing...
every landing, you still can use the aircraft - is a very good landing
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