The torque reaction is from the engine; so if the needles aren't joined lifting lever will not cause usual torque reaction: In fact a lever pump may cause the fuselage to go in the direction of the disk due to increased friction. Similarly, "letting pedal go" will allow the fuselage to turn with the disk: the thing you would usually be trying to avoid at the end of an autorotation.
Whether you would have energy to arrest the ROD, and groundspeed and suffer the loss of RRPM as you push cyclic forward into wind, begs the question of why you'd make life so hard.
I can't imagine anyone doing this in an R22 and that is what most schools use.
Last edited by PPRuNeUser129638; 1st October 2009 at 17:14.