In the sim, single pilot -76, drive failure in the hover, climb the rotating aircraft to 1,000 ft, nose over to gain airspeed, and fly to a suitable landing area. Assumed performance permitting.
Megan, I hope you were suitably disappointed that they said such a thing was possible?
Your brain would ooze out your ears while pulling pitch to get to 1000', and the "roll coupling" effect where the fuselage no longer stays level and the spin goes more vertical than horizontal would disorient even our mate Nick.
When I did the sim on the 76B at West Palm, the only thing taught for a drive failure from any altitude was throttles-idle auto. I was able to show the sim instructor a different technique (from Huey days, and applying to B206 as well) leading to a running landing - had to show it to him twice before he really believed it - but he insisted that the tried-and-true auto be performed to pass the course.