Reading this makes me shudder to think how naive we were back in the day. My boss and I were up doing patterns in the 269A-1 (TH-55,) talking about Robinsons and wondering how low you could let the rpm decay before recovering. We rolled throttle off, pitched for 60kts and counted to 5 before we got too nervous and bottomed collective and rolled throttle on. RPM was waaay down past bottom of the green. In retrospect it was a stupid thing to do. Proves to me just how forgiving the 269 really is. In the Robbi we'd probably be dead.
