Original Message

Both are unnecessarily risky. In swept-wing airplanes, pilots only do approaches-to-stalls, not the real thing. (Oh, and I never mentioned "jumbo" jets, just jets in general. Even pilots of small, swept-wing jets don't do full stalls.) Yet we helicopter pilots want to go out and actually get into VRS when we've graphically seen how risky it can be. Obviously, not all r/w flying is Point A to Point B, we all know that and nobody needs to point it out. But sooner or later, we all have to land. And that's where the accidents happen. We don't have to actually experience VRS to learn how bad it is, and how to avoid it.