Originally Posted by
John Eacott
..Many moons ago I was paired with a pilot, day on/day off, doing gravity survey and I was unable to match his performance every morning where he managed the longer distances in rising OAT than I could achieve. Operating from Tom Price, Western Australia in ~36C days in a Bell 206BIII.
It turned out that he was pulling 2.5 minute power limits, backing off below the limiting TOT for a few seconds and then straight back into the higher limit.
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Regrettably a lot of that sort of thing used to go on, and still does...more and more newer design helicopters now have black boxes that record all sorts of numbers and any errant pilots can be identified by way of laptop computer and be retrained by way of Chief Pilot.