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Old 20th October 2006 | 15:45
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Yep, keep in mind that from about 700fpm ROD or higher on touchdown it's going to smart a bit and you ARE going to lose some rotor energy on entry unless you're clairvoyant or are doing it for practice and entry is self-inflicted.

From 50' AGL you're going to have maybe (and I do mean maybe) 8-10s to pull this whole thing off from "Oh !!!!!..." to "Sweet mama... stop!"... not a lot of opportunities to fix any problems if you manage to hesitate. That's why I don't like the idea of doing much with the fuselage attitude other than setting it up for touchdown or just a whisker nose low. The initial situation was starting from 50' and all your focus needs to go into not making things worse, not getting too clever.
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