Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
“Parts” was actually a student of mine on the Puma OCU, in the mid 1980s but we didn’t deliberately demo VRS on the course back then! My encounter was on a night operation where we were required to hover on instruments at 10,000 feet or so (if you’re ex Pumas you probably know the role). The handling pilot (another previous student of mine) lost his concentration after a very long night in poor visibility and mishandled the attempt to get to the hover (I think we probably fell out backwards). Down we went, very quickly indeed and I prompted him to regain airspeed; I think I probably assisted him by pushing the cyclic to the forward stop… we lost a great deal of altitude, it was very sobering how quickly it happened.
Who or what would have you hovering at 10k on instruments. What a ridiculous thing to be doing.