[QUOTE=powerabout;86575]pilots practice autorotations all the time i agree
I have done several as a passenger in R22, 500’s ( not the bigger ones as used offshore)and you cant tell the difference, the chopper still desends at the same rate you would fly down
its one of those misnomers that people all assume no engine drops like a stone, just like the glide path for a cessna and a jumbo is about the same, although one is going a lot faster[/QUOTE]
I guess this is my error, but I didn’t think that they’d risk doing an autorotate deliberately since if the chopper didn’t react as planned, there wouldn’t be a recovery if the turbines didn’t relight quickly. I am now going to spend a long while researching this one to learn more about how autorotation works. One big question is how does the pilot control the attitude or heading?
Obviously I know that helicopters can do this but I think someone once said that based on pure physical principles a helicopter isn’t even supposed to be able to fly?