About the Ka-52 i’ve always wondered if i prefer to try to eject or if i prefer to take my chance with the crash because if only one rotor blade don’t eject properly you can have a very very bad day.:D
It depend where you are when you have problems. The higher you are, the more you have interest to eject. The blade which would’nt separate properly will be the least of your problems. :highly_amused:
Cable takes the seat out, joined to an ejection rocket, and will be the first to meet the blade.
If you are on low altitude, Ka-52 is also equiped with crash resistant seats. Then, you can try this opportunity.
Btw i wonder if there is no problem to make an autorotation with coaxial rotor?
Even less if we consider that you have not the rotation of fuselage to be careful. On more “classical” helicopters, in case of autorotation, you have a very little (if any) help of the tail rotor to counter act the gyro-rotation of the fuselage in opposite direction of the rotation of the main rotor.
Here, on Kamov contra-rotating rotors, each rotors in auto rotations counteract themselves in opposite forces.
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