Originally posted by tankkllr: I can't decide if he was good or lucky. I guess it doesn't matter the result was the same. We practice those quite often and they are never easy.
Tank I was thinking the same thing. If one of your students at ATC completed a loss of thrust landing like that you would say "Let's try that again".
I guess I was thinking total loss of power to the tail rotor. I believe I remember it flying straight at two speeds, one being somewhere in the 15-25 knot range and the other being much higher 60-80knots? I can remember we praticed tail rotor failures a fair amount. Always exciting going down the runway sideways tracing figure eights with the nose of the helo! We never did a full 360 like that guy, very coooool landing! Peace, Dick
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one being somewhere in the 15-25 knot range and the other being much higher 60-80knots
That sounds to me like loss of tail rotor control (not thrust).
In a Blackhawk we have two independent cables that control the tail rotor pitch. If both fail, a spring centers the tail rotor a predetermined amount (10.5 degrees) that will give you trimmed flight at 25Kts and 145Kts. <25Kts or >145Kts=Right yaw; in between the two airspeeds is a left yaw. You do a shallow approach to a roll on landing, using collective to put the pointy end forward upon touchdown.
