The DHFS Griffins (Bell 412 EP) have adopted the new 'throttle closed start procedure' and so far in one month, no incidents of messed up starts. The 'ginger beers' have placed an orange mark on the throttle barrel that is just below(approx 5mils) the idle stop and once at 12% N1 the throttle is moved to that mark. This, for the students, is very akin to the AS 350 that they flew prior to this except that they used a white dot on the collective. It makes an impressive whoosh as the flame is lit and a at low light/night, a blue flame flicks out the exhaust.
However, the new Hyd and Electrics check doesn't exercise the hyd switchover valve correctly and the check of the DC emergency load switch is sporadically dumping U/VHF radio pre-sets.
Happy days.