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I Didn't think VRS training was a good idea at the time, but I lived to tell about it.  Cleaning out the cockpit with the cyclic trying to keep it "in the bubble of air". Pegging the VSI at 6000 feet per minute.  Not sure if I was close to terminal velocity Or what terminal velocity entails. Chopping off the tail boom with large control inputs is a concern, but Recovery from three or 4000 feet should be a bigger factor with horrendous sink rates..  I don't recall doing any scary intense VRS training at Bell 407 factory  school training, during any of three visits to Bell.