Out of interest, how many people actually check the functioning of their freewheels on a regular basis - we had specific checks for it on the Sea King but on a single you would need to enter auto and flare to split the Nr from the Nf (or equivalent).
Yep, in every damned shut down. Cause it was written in our flight manuals ( "Throttle to stop/off - needle split") on the three first types i flew. Its written in the spine, so eyes go there on later types that dont say this( except for when in the maintanence check flights, where there can be explicit checks for needle split, both in flight/auto or on ground run).