N5296s - So not really in any form of VRS then, just slow speed with a RoD that you had enough power to overcome.
Rotorbee - the problem with assuming the TR thrust will help is that in FDVRS and to some extent IVRS you will experience random pitch roll AND yaw so you might not have that as an immediate option.
According to Nick Lappos, if you have enough power you can muscle yourself out of VRS - it is just a question of overcoming the massive amounts of rotor drag - not many aircraft have that capability.
I know that those who used to do the VRS demo on the Sea King sometimes struggled to get the aircraft into it (at 10,000') and sometimes it pretty much flew itself out again. I think you have to work hard (or be very unlucky) to keep in the very high RoD area - but it clearly can be done.