I’m confused in this accident why the Eurocopter EC135 pilot decided to manipulate the throttle after encountering wake turbulence - I can’t think of a reason for this. Could someone please explain why a pilot would do that?
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1$\begingroup$ I'm not sure anyone except the pilot themselves can talk about their motivation, but hopefully someone can talk to the procedures for dealing with wake turbulence in this type or similar. $\endgroup$– Jamiec ♦Sep 15, 2020 at 7:57
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$\begingroup$ It's possible that the pilot didn't decide to disable autothrottle, it could have been inadvertent. $\endgroup$– GdDSep 15, 2020 at 8:12
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It's the second sentence on the first page of the report:
He inadvertently rolled the throttles to manual, and never restabilized the engines or main rotor rpm.
Supplemented by (the next sentence):
In addition, he did not understand the reset procedures for the engine controls (FADEC), and never returned the engines to FADEC control.
answered Sep 15, 2020 at 14:22