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Bend alot
While I don't fly helicopters nor do mustering I have been told that during mustering mostly it is not high power used. Lots of manoeuvring yes, but cows don't run very fast.
Well, I don't fly helicopters or muster cattle either, but that said, I would guess that it would be at high power quite a bit of the time. I would expect that mustering would necessarily involve being in a hover a significant part of the time and hovering tends to require higher power than cruise. And not only would they be hovering but doing a fair amount of maneuvering in a hover which I'd expect to increase the power requirements. But, I haven't been involved in such operations, so I'm speculating here.