Originally Posted by
Hughes500
In my humble opinion i dont think Claude has ever been in VRS ! Having been there once I can assure you adding power to step out made it worse not better !!!!
In my trainee opinion, adding power did not change anything! lever up, lever down, its like it was disconnected, absolutly no change on the rate of descent! which was already much faster than anything I had seen in autorotation.
what increasing power does though, I assume, is increase your torque and consequently tail rotor pitch, and therefore your lateral slip stream.
Even if you main rotor is stalled and cyclic controlability degraded, the tail rotor is perfectly fine to help you step out of the VRS. I thought that was the whole principle of the Vuishard recovery.