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Old 19th Dec 2010, 21:25
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SuperF
 
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I'm with shawn on this one. after full down auto in UH1, you have enough inertia in MR blades to just get off the ground do a 360ish turn and sit back down again, you are going down as you are turning so better be good at it. Once blades get down below about 80-90% maybe more or less, not really looking inside, you aren't going pretty much anywhere, and that is in a light utility UH1. no way in hell a 44 will do much, except smack a tailboom if you are silly about, once engine has been wound off and rpm started to decay.

Also if you park your 44 just right, shut the engine off, no rotor brake, about 15-20 kts, blades will free wheel all day, now what do you do? Good for all those lowtime pilots in the UK, as they log flight time until the blades stop turning.....

What a lot of us here have probably not said, as it was assumed, is shut down, wait for rpm to decay, 60 sec or so, then when about 50% pull collective. As previously said, we only tend to do it in the wind to slow the damn things down, otherwise they do it fine themselves.
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