Lonewolf, you're right it is counterintuitive, it is however the way the L2 is set up. First upper mode selected goes on the cyclic, whether Alt or IAS. If the other one is selected, making it 4-axis, then Alt is on collective and IAS is on cyclic.
225 simplifies it, Alt is always collective, IAS is always cyclic
That's all well and good until one gets below max conserve airspeed, and/or into translation lift since one will begin feel the effects of being on the wrong side of the power curve.
Exactly!!