Thanks, helmet fire.
The revision to the recovery technique of trying to use out-of-turn cyclic sounds a bit dodgy to me, gut-feeling wise; I'd be more inclined to cyclic into the turn slightly, or at least keep it centered (given the room to move) and try to do some kind of an ugly ascending, accelerating and hopefully slipstreaming climb out.
Using a heap of left cyclic as the machine was spinning rapidly right sounds a bit like a recipe for rolling it over or mast bumping -as I say, gut feeling, so maybe the test pilots can comment further.
Thomas coupling,
as a relative newcomer to the 206 I was keen to find out what this LTE business was all about, and the summary I wrote above is about the best I've been able to glean.
We all know about the obvious things that can happen to any tail-rotored helicopter, such as loss of tail rotor drive, or damage to the tail rotor itself; as has been mentioned, machines like the Huey can get short on tail rotor authority (ie high power hover, left pedal banging on and off the stops, but not whipping around to the right), but when I started flying the 206 people would talk about this LTE thing; apparently a rapid right yaw in high power low speed situations that can be brought on when the wussy tail rotor gets dirty air and can't cope, exacerbated by winds from certain directions (must check the chart again, the 8 o'clock springs to mind).
Hope this is of some use.