[hawkman]

Good for you....best way to practice autos is to do a nice steady descent....and then land without fuss...and without hesitation.

Hesitating at those last couple of feet will kill headspeed...and you have no height to try to recover that vital factor....headspeed..

on the sim try a nice descent.....and flare while dropping the collective which will give more headpseed.....but be sure to level out and add collective...then carry on and land...without hesitation....I find it handy to keep the colelctive up once you touch down...and feed in some forward cyclic....this should keep the blades from dropping and hitting the tail boom ....which can easily happen if you touch down...with the rear of the skids making contact with the ground.....the 'disc' is tilted back at this stage...as the heli settles the 'disc' is still hanging back and as the boom comes up you can easily get a strike...so keep the pitch positive as you touch down...feed in some forward cyclic....and you should be fine.

Heavier blades give more inertia....typical 30 size heli blades carry very little inertia...smaller helis will carry less....

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Rob