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On 2025-04-13, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> Helicopter accidents are notoriously difficult
> to walk away from. They don't glide very well.

Very true. Moreover, even if the guy reads the book
and resolves to keep it to running speed & jump-down
height until he has overcome the well-known universal
tendency of beginners to overcompensate stick movements,
without practical guidance or simulation, self-learning
has never been accomplished.

After initial failures of the first helicopters built
by Sikorsky, the engineers build a sort of 'jig'
instead of landing gear that only allowed a few
feet of movement in all 'degrees of freedom' so that
incipient pilots could just practice hovering.

It was also on a sort of pedestal to allow for
maximal blade excursions from horizontal.

If it were me, I'd shop around for a military model
with a cabin parachute. Auto-rotation without simulation
or guidance would seem to be more dangerous to practice
than the likelyhood it might prevent a safe landing.