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You may wish to consider cutting the drama queen bull!!!!! with your "subjects" being shot at and cows distracting their attention
, just for a few minutes, and consider what you are saying.
Flying a helicopter vertically downwards from 2000' and trying to force it to enter a state which is known to have caused accidents is risky, surely, through your macho, no poofters hardshell, even you must grasp that. No matter how good you are at doing it.
I don't think anyone is saying that you cannot recover, certainly what I am saying is that, if you teach your "subjects" how avoid it in the first place then you ought to be able to dispense with this unnecessary training risk. You could be falling into the trap of thinking that because you can enter and recover in an R22, that the same will work for all other models, it may not. There are many variables affecting VRS and recovery from it.