To: buzzcat
Well, to properly answer your question one would need to be rated in both. Assuming one has plenty of altitude and therefore time to react and set up the landing, the Huey was actually fun to autorotate. Engine loss on take off is a bummer. Hydraulic failure and engine loss would ruin your entire day.
To: There's millions of'em
Agree that if you're good autorotations are actually fun. Hydraulic failure gives you only one chance, then you die. I have heard that a huey with a 540 system could autorotate, and if you didn't like where you landed you still had enough rotor inertia to move. Do you know what keeps the s__thook blades from hitting each other. Sheer coincidence.
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03/11/2002 5:12:31 PM PST by
satan
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