helmet :
( I love being able to call someone that and get away with it ! ).
I think I'm the guy who posted the thing, aeons ago, about "aft and a tad of left cyclic" - I heard Tim Tucker say that during a discussion on low G when I was on my safety course in Oz, about 2.5 years ago ( reminder to self - go on another one soon ).
If my memory serves right, he said the reason that the "tad of left" cyclic wasn't included in the manual was that, although it increased the effectiveness of the recovery, it wasn't crucial and therefore was left out - if misjudged you can dig yourself deeper in the hole rather than recovering.
At the time, he ( Tim ) had about 15000 or so helicopter hours, and people with that level of experience I would imagine can pole pretty accurately and judge "a tad". I can't imagine someone with my hours being able to do quite the same and live to tell the tale . . .
BTW, he found out all about the exact techniques while test flying to EXPLORE the low G regime, until he realised he'd probably gone far enough without mishap.