Flight Manuals etc.
JeffG,
What flight manuals ( excepting the V-22 ) do you refer to? See my previous post re Sikorsky models.
21st,
At 285 ft AGL and -2500 fpm, one had best be either, getting ready to flare, if in autorotation, or starting to apply collective/power if not.
Is everyone aware that for civil machines, the FAA certifies an envelope that one tests, and no more? Thus for example the S-76 and 92 were flown thru the vertical rate of descent envelope to include autorotation, and at the extremes of the NR range. One can assume that absent flight manual limitations to the contrary, other civil certified machines were tested similarly.
Thanks,
John Dixson