Good evening Chaps,
James, when I was taught to enter Autos, the instructor always indicated a gentle flair for two reasons, bring back the RRpm if you had lost any and also to keep the cabin level, Gentle flare that was, in my book it is hardly able to called a flair or Flare.
But I don't understand what you mean by increasing pitch whilst in the Auto, unless to go for distance, increasing pitch would ultimately cause you serious problems for it would errode your RRPM and at that stage RRPM is your parachute.
Peter R-B
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