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Autorotation Training for AH-94

Small mission to practice, how to keep you and your helo alive when both of your engines shut down mid flight.

How Autorotation works:
Essentially you use your Rotors like a Windmill, to build up Rotorspeed, which you can later trade off to slow your descent right before landing.

What to do when your engines fail:
1. Put the collective all the way down. It's vital that this happens immediately, or else you will lose too much Rotorspeed. it might seem counterintuitive, but trust me this is the only way down that doesn't end in an inferno.
2. Since you no longer have your turbines you need to start the APU to generate Electricity.
3. Search for a viable landing Spot and glide towards it. Try to descent at an angle so that your Rotorspeed stays in the green/yellow zone.
4. Deploy your Landing-Gear
5. Right before you flare to Land, Raise the collective to trade your Rotorspeed for vertical Speed. This will help you to perform a smooth landing.

For an additional challange, you can try to autorotate from a lower altitude and / or over a city / mountain.

by yoshi (GER)