Nick ol' buddy.......if I am using "x" amount of power for my HOGE....and I apply "X + 2%".....you state I shall now ascend vertically.
I accept that statement in total.
What happens if I apply "X + 1%" or "X + 1.5%"........would I not also ascend vertically but at a slower rate ???
Or did my alcohol ravaged brain miss something....honest...I read it two or three times.....and still got the same impression that you stated a 2% power margin over OGE was required to ascend vertically from a stable OGE hover.
Now I only flew Chinooks and being tandem rotor....they defied several laws of physics and commonsense but.....it seems to me...if I apply power in excess of that required for a stable...steady OGE hover....the birdie goes up.....! What am I missing here?
Also....I assume the fancy dancy computer whizbang on the 92 requires some manual input for aircraft weight.....or you got squat switches or something that senses the actual ramp weight of the aircraft? Now assuming that same 92 is engaged in Offshore Oil Operations.....using the GIGO theory of computers....just how reliable are those performance figures going to be. (You ever seen an oilfield scale that was accurate to within a few hundred pounds per item?) Daily I get to watch some knuckle draggers stagger under the weight of their 20 lbs of baggage which consists of a Snap-On four component roll around tool box worth of tools.....stuffed into a duffle bag. The thought of having such a lovely device fills me with joy....but I know the helicopter operators will still want to ignore the numbers because that means they will have to cut one passenger or something equally silly.