Mr. Selfish, yes that is a worry. I am aware that we all become shorter as we grow older but maybe helicopters have the same problem.
Or is it a circumcision of the stinger that has lost us the four inches as the '44 came of age? Still popular in the States so I'm told...
As to the governor kicking in during start up procedures, I did have this once on a slippery surface in a light machine and we ended up 15 or so degrees from the original heading. It wouldn't fly with the collective down but I felt a bit of a twozzer for
allowing it.
I guess we shall get used to it, just need to teach different cautions.