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> It's really not that hard to autorotate, you do it at hour 8 in training. Few students do full down autorotations, and no one does engine-off autorotations.
by aeternum 7y ago
> It's really not that hard to autorotate, you do it at hour 8 in training.
Few students do full down autorotations, and no one does engine-off autorotations. Instructors also don't just roll the power off when students are not expecting it, as that would be far too dangerous. Successful autorotation in a real emergency means the pilot has to execute a difficult maneuver in conditions they've never before experienced.
- angry_octet 7y agoThis is a pointless hair splitting. Like all truly dire emergencies, it can be trained for but not actually done. They do it in simulation under a number of stressful conditions, such as during a complicated maneuver or another failure.