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Old 30th Mar 2022, 21:34
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ShyTorque

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As I wrote here before in previous discussions on the "Vuichard" recovery technique, the claim made is that it provides a full recovery with a height loss of 100 feet or less. How can it do that from a rate of descent of what is possibly 3,000 feet per minute or more? I've experienced VRS of around that rate of descent in a Puma and it took far, far more height to recover. The aircraft randomly pitched, yawed and rolled until we gained some forward speed by holding full forward cyclic and even then the recovery from the descent couldn't be stopped within 100 feet! During RAF rotary wing training I was shown what was purported to be VRS in a Whirlwind 10 and it was nothing like fully the developed VR state; the aircraft almost recovered by itself with very small control movements.
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