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Old 22nd March 2010 | 22:53
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Gordy
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From: Redding CA, or on a fire somewhere
Agree with crab...

There was a low-rotor rpm demonstration that was shown to me at the Robinson factory years ago, which I would also demonstrate to students, (this was back in the day before the governor and when we were still required to demonstrate Low G).

In a hover, slowly roll off the throttle and try to maintain a stable hover over the ground. Depending upon weight, I have had the RPM at 78% and recovered--with throttle.

Please do not try this in flight---Perform the demonstration at about 3 foot hover, and it is more to demonstrate the effectiveness of the tail rotor, I doubt you could recover the RPM in an auto-rotation--although I could be wrong.
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