Originally Posted by
Homsap
Overhawk ... Thank you for your reply, I'm not convinced with CAA approval based on past experience, as a fixed wing pilot, I wondered could you keep a rotary wing in a hover with both engines at max power. I accept your comments on performance, but I am still doubtfull how quickly if under any circumstances in the event of any engine faiiling you could prevent height loss.
I suppose this also applies to SAR, but that's is an emergency.
Well...Long time since I flew a 355 but as I recall if you had either 40mph or 40 feet (or combination thereof) you could fly it away..and that was with fixed floats! A friend lost an engine on skid gear while doing power line maint. He managed to hold it in the hover while the guy scrambled back aboard ( the failure occured while he was attached to both the aircraft and the power tower. The worst scenario. The good engine was heroic but overtemped just a bit! ( Well, a lot actually) they changed both.
Change of underwear for all concerned was also called for.