Originally Posted by
cteneto139
I remember in 1997, when a SA330J had a sudden stop after a freewheel #2 had a sort of slippage during the starting procedures... Because the SA330J has not tripletach, the captain was unable to notice that the second engine had not engaged... of course, the Eurocopter + operator, have pointed the fault to the captain for that... you can imagine, the helicopter has no advisory or instrument about the N2(Nf or Ntl) and the fault was from captain!!!
OK, my brain hurts. How does a two-engine helicopter not have a triple tach? Has the world changed that much since I last hovered?