Originally Posted by Flingwing207
'hook,
I think you may not have the picture of the power recovery I'm talking about. I'm talking about the power coming in after the flare, when the skids are just off of the ground, not a go-around after a simulated engine failure.
I was wondering the same thing. The power recovery autos that I did in training brought the power in after the flare, at about the same time you pushed the cyclic forward to avoid hitting the tail. Airspeed was just about zero (depending on how well I did) and we were close to the ground.
The flare ofcourse brought in some RRPM, and during the flare we were spooling up the throttle so that we could join the needles at the end of the flare (this ended up being more difficult timing wise then the rest of the auto).
I spoke to a Blackhawk pilot once who told me that they tend to recover much higher in training (50 - 100 ft?) is this standard practice?
I certainly agree that there's no substitute for the real thing. But since I don't own the helicopter, I can understand that there might be pressure from the flight schools and operators to restrict the requirement for doing full down autos.
If this is (was) only a CFI requirement, how many full down autos are being done?