- Uninhibit your throttle hold program and you will come up with a percentage. This is the throttle percentage, which you will have to set an idle. Don't have it idling too high as this will cause the clutch to drag and the blades will not spin up properly.
- Copy your hover pitch settings through from your hover mode to the ¼, ½ and ¾ positions of your throttle hold pitch curve which after inhibiting becomes available. If you use the softened curve it will give some feel when you come in and hover after your autorotation. It also helps when you abort an auto that the settings are the same as your hover mode that you're switching back too.
- Set your top end pitch to 100 percent.
- Set your bottom end pitch to around -5 degrees negative to start with, you may find that it comes down to fast and doesn't spin up your blades very well. This could be because you have to much negative pitch on, so you will have to practice and see if you can get the chopper to glide down in a controlled fashion, with enough reserve power, left in the blades to get a small hover.
Tips for beginners to Autorotations.
- Don't make the first auto, the one when you run out of fuel. This one almost always ends in disaster if you have never done one before because you may find that the pitch curve is not quite right.
- Always pick out a nice piece of flat ground with out too many undulations or too longer grass. You're not going to be able to pick it out later when you're landing.
- Try a couple of test hovers down low to make sure your machine will actually hover when the switch is flicked.
- Always practice autos into the wind. If you get caught with an engine off situation then try to get the nose back into the wind. The Helicopter may find itself falling at the same speed as the wind and it wont spin the blades up, then it just becomes a brick sorry and there is nothing you or I can do to stop it!
- Always practice autos with a slight to medium strength wind. They actually spin the blades up better and have more reserve power.
- Always practice autos out of the danger threshold of 3-15 metres (15-50 feet).
- Get rid of all forward speed before you touch down, Because if you don't have a driven tail you may find that the tail turns on you on landing and you might come in sideways and tip over.

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