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Plus in an AW you can set the AP, and then focus on your customs declaration.
In a phase 4, you cant just couple the FD from the hover. You need to be inside the airspeed/altitude parameters, so you need to do a manually-flown departure from below vmini, as Crab says.
If you have practised it, its something a competent IFR pilot should be able to cope with. If you havent practised it, then it is not something to attempt "off the cuff" !