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Old 14th Dec 2013, 13:00
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Unless your job involves long periods of OGE hovering when you are usually concentrating on performing a task or mission.

There is no ONE way of entering autorotation that will optimise your chances in every given situation but the basic idea that lowering the collective fully WILL prevent any further Nr decay and flaring with the cyclic WILL (if you have any forward speed) help recover the Nr - is what we should be highlighting to all and sundry, especially the low timers.

One exception maybe - the Germans used to teach, on the Huey at nap of the earth flying heights, to raise the lever first to get the tail clear of the ground before flaring so you didn't add a tail rotor strike to your list of woes. But of course the Huey had massive rotor inertia - try that in a Robbie and it would go very wrong very quickly
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