Personal opinion of course, having practiced plenty of autos in an R22 many with full touch down, some in between and avoiding trees, which was where ever my CFI decided to pull a surprise simulated auto. I would go for a helicopter for forced landing, I have the opinion you have more flexibility with point of touch down in a chopper, sure you get more distance out of your glide in a plank but you hit the ground with more speed and anything in your way will do it's best to wash off that inertia, with a helicopter you can touch down with little or virtually zero groundspeed. Autos are even slower in high inertia rotor helicopters.
Was the theory behind the choppers from fixed wing instructors? the reason I ask is because there is always the banter between plank and rotary pilots/instructors about which is better. There is a common misconception that helicopters plummet out of the sky with an engine failure, I can assure you they too can glide, even backwards, which my instructor demonstrated to me once.
We can agree to disagree on this one
Master
Originally Posted by blitz
haven't flown (in command
) for about 10 years and miss it heaps. I really thought as a kid we'd have rocket backpacks by now...affordable ones that is.
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