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Old 27th Mar 2018, 07:45
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Originally Posted by Thomas coupling
................meaning?
NRDK:
A lot of faffing about rather then flying...
From the Preliminary:

Passing through between 100 and 50 ft, he began the cyclic flare in an extended glide configuration, but he "did not get a lot of rpm back."
That seems to indicate that the mishap pilot lost control of his RRPM during his autorotation from 2,000 ft AGL, and allowed the RRPM to decay.
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