With the engine set to the rich side, however, you shouldn't have excessively high rotor rpm. Hermes Bag Brown. Initially, the collective will be set fairly high to produce the fast forward flight, but start to reduce the collective to "cruise" setting as you apply aft cyclic so that the usual hover collective is reached as the helicopter passes the vertical position. Begin by thoroughly familiarizing yourself with the starting position of the hands and deck. Hermes Bag Brown. A card control: Have a card chosen by allowing the spectator to call stop as you riffle the outer left comer with your left thumb. Initially, strive to maintain a rate of descent that’s reasonable and controllable but not so slow as to reduce the rotor blades' speed. Hermes Bag Brown. Again, this will be a trial-and-error process to figure out how many turns of the linkage it will take to return that particular trim to neutral.