if the cyclic doesn't move, the tip-path plane won't move.
FH1100, this is horsefeathers. The disc will flap away from any relative wind, but it is
moving the cyclic that brings it back.
Try to transition from a hover into slow forward flight, just by initially adding some forward stick, but then bring it back to the middle and don't let it move. You start to move forward. Then the nose will flap up, you will stop moving forward, and then start moving backward, until the disc flaps away from the (tail)wind, the nose pitches down, you move forward again, the nose flaps up, and after one more cycle, the aircraft has crashed.
Because you did not move the cyclic.
it always sorted itself out in a revolution or two...certainly by the time I grabbed the controls.
See, you just said it yourself, the blade will flap, and the pilot will adjust the cyclic to stop it. But if the cockpit is unoccupied, well...