How do I go about learning autorotations?
Check out this excellent page from HeliBuf. That page was key to your humble FAQ author’s first autorotations. There are just a few things I would like to add: I did my first approaches in normal mode, which I had set up so that low stick gave me about -3 degrees of pitch and a nice idle. I practiced descending this way to get used to the sound, the head speed, the rate of approach, and so on. When the helicopter got down to 30 feet or so, I slowly raised the left stick, which reapplied power and allowed me to level out and fly on smoothly. When I was comfortable with that, I started using the throttle hold switch. I would descend at low stick (again, about -3 degrees), flare, and turn off throttle hold so I could fly away safely. I did this several times, each time flaring a bit lower. There came a time when I figured I was almost ready to land, I would just flare at 3-5 feet a couple times and then finally I’d (gasp!) do it for real. As it happened, I descended planning to flare and
