Originally Posted by
Hummingfrog
HC
You have confused me now - surely an instrument approach is at low - medium speed yet it seems that the way pilots fly the approach is as if it were high speed.
Being a product of the RAF system I, like Crab was taught that cyclic controlled speed and that power via the collective controlled height. The scenario you put forward of cruising at max power didn't occur in most RAF operations as the helicopter was usually been aggresively flown at low level - 50ft in German Ex areas and 100ft elsewhere
HF
Mmmh, so your basic training was limited to expected future roles and types. Not very basic then!
Low, medium and high are relative terms. In my context I was using them to mean pretty much hovering, around Vy, and significantly above Vy. We don't know what the nominated approach speed was but lets say 110kts, I would say that was "high speed" in this context, although I will give you that its only just so, or even in the grey zone in between.