I have flown the DTA… it’s a nice machine with no handling issues a bit fiddly with door interlocking micro switches that prohibit pre rotation if doors are not latched
I found the build quality of the DTA to be of a high standard
Greg i think you are an experiance pilot with probably more than the average piloting skills
i think i know of 2 DTA fatal , with only the pilot on board with rotax 914 turbo and the 2 machine torque roll
yes it is usually pilot error
you are also a good helicopter pilot , vs only gyroplane pilot with many time the accident pilot are low time
i think with euro style gyro with the big tail far back from the CG they dont PPO i think they torque roll before PPO
and more easily with how lightly loaded and higher power the machine is
i am just a student pilot , but i know a couple torque roll , in the condition i said above
one of the problem i see the more the power with lighly loaded machine the closer the coffins corners are
that can bite a low hours pilot that do the mistake in a steep climb to push the cyclic at the top or even the midle of a sustained high angle climb without reducing the power in is climb before aplying the cyclic forward
whe know this is more accident prone with a high power 915
whe see the flying data from Abid flight testing the GWS from Mike
i can post this in another thread to not polute this thread and remove it from here
the problem is always that whe dont know what we dont know... about high power machine g load rotor rpm
steap climb and how closed... we are from the coffins corners that can bite fast a mistake