RVDT
Thanks for the window into the murky world of the L3. I was wondering if it was an L3 thing - it was odd to me that he had the power to hover OGE but still managed to droop it.
During the transition I assumed he was trying to recover RPM by getting off the left pedal, I never considered that the poor sod was pressing left pedal and drooping it more due to LTE in forward flight.
He should have just lowered collective a bit and dumped the torque, as ReverseFlight said. He had the height.
Easy to say watching a video rather than being in the spin cycle though. I experienced moderate LTE during OGE with a student about 3 months back and the helo had completed a 180 by the time I'd managed to lower the collective and get forward cyclic in.
Kris