Rabies Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 I had an interesting experience whilst flying the Mi8. While at altitude, 9000ft, I decided to kick the aircraft out of trim for a rapid decent into a LZ. I rolled the aircraft to the right and applied opposite rudder, your rate of decent goes off the scale. At some point I lost visual reference to the LZ so I reversed the control inputs, it was shortly after this that I noticed both engines had flamed out. I was too low to attempt a restart and autorotated into a hard landing. Has anyone experienced a similar scenario? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadg Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 not had this, but sounds like negative g causing fuel starvation? did you try this in a straight in approach? or a fast spiral from above the LZ? My Rig: AM5 7950X, 32GB DDR5 6000, M2 SSD, EVGA 1080 Superclocked, Warthog Throttle and Stick, MFG Crosswinds, Oculus Rift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabies Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 It was a right bank spiral approach with opposite rudder. At some point I reversed it and I think this may have caused the fuel starvation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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