TC - as I suspect we are both products from the same flight school the technical answer as follows:
1. Lever fully down
2. Flare to recover NR
3. Reapply collective to control NR
4. STABILISE
5. Think - options- checks.
This is for forward flight. Did I pass your test??
I have never had an engine failure in a single. I had a few in a twin. Including some self induced decay in NR. Plenty of EOLs with the engine running at idle - Including from a 500 foot hover. However like I said some posts back these are skills that are 20 years old. I fly large MEHs and up until this accident and the postings by Henra and Peter I had not properly or fully appreciated how fast the NR becomes unrecoverable.
May I ask how you have managed to do a lot of EOLS (I think you said hundreds) with the engine shutdown??
PS I have answered your question and note that you did not answer mine!!
DB
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