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Author: 206 Guy   Date: 7/29/2021 10:30:53 PM  +4/-0   Show Orig. Msg (this window) Or  In New Window

"Hmmm….. every practice auto should be expected to become a real auto. Rapping an engine off and literally hoping it will return to full power is stupid. Throttle linkage is sketchy in most helicopters ..."


Aaaaand we don't need to read any further than that.  "Most helicopters??"  Wow.  Obviously that poster has very little or zero experience in 206's.  On the other hand, I have literally *tons* of time in all models of 206's.  And in my lifetime of flying them, never did I have one quit when rolling the throttle down to Idle after landing.  NOT ONCE.  But yet some pilots think that just because you're doing a practice auto that the engine is going to quit *this* time?  Sheesh, paranoid much?  


We don't know what happened in this event.  Maybe the poor schlub flared a little high and then pulled fast as it dropped in vertically, and maybe he drooped the rotor down and they got into the dreaded "settling with power."  Maybe there was actually something wrong witih the engine.  Who knows. Who cares.  But the accident report mentions that the pilot undergoing the 135 ride and the FAA guy both checked the gauges to look for...something...something the gauges would and could not tell them.  More attention should have been paid looking outside the aircraft and making sure they were in a position where they could land safely if the engine did not respond properly. The guy was on a 135 ride, not a PPL checkride.


In any event, being worried that the engine is going to quit on this next practice auto is just silly.

 
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