Originally Posted by
Thomas coupling
Shy - so you want other peers to believe that a Puma touched down at 162mph with a major malfunction in the knowledge that the very instant he lowered the lever (to stay on the runway) his aircraft would have commenced a side slip due to the yaw differential?
C'mon Shy - perleeeeeeze smell the coffee.
I cannot attest to the particular event but I know of similar landings post tail rotor problems.
At one Operator I had the misfortune to hire on with.....flying BK's....the procedure taught was exactly that. In training I saw Approach speeds in excess of 100 KTS.....but no touch downs.
When I inquired if the TC was making a very bad joke....he had quite a sense of humor failure and demanded to know what I would do differently.
Up we went...established the same setup....and I did an autoration and accepted some yawning at the bottom with zero ground speed.....which seems far safer an arrival than getting to the bottom at over a hundred knots ground speed and full chat on the rotor system....very limited yaw control....and thoughts that following through with Cyclic might prove to be a bit of a challenge!
But then what do I know?