So far, so good: but keep going . . .
No-flare autos are becoming more of an R22 possibility as we go along, thanks all. But I can't put together a complete lesson plan yet: Spaced, what happens with the 40k forward airspeed (assume zero wind if convenient). Is ALL the paltry MR inertia expended on arresting descent, with a high-speed run-on touchdown? Or does the pitch attitude increase along with collective so that some of the MR energy is expended to decelerate before impact with the pungee stakes?
For the theoreticians (you know who you are!): where does this exploration of the survival envelope fall in terms of minimum-power-required (?53k in R22 = Vy), OR best glide (perhaps irrelevant, but in the last few years R22's seem to be assigned 75k), OR optimum autorotation IAS (65k quoted by RHC, there seems to be no aerodynamic justification for this, just Tradition, the Force Majeur in rotary flight!).
Seems like the alert CFI/practical aerodynamicist ought to be able to cook up a coherent energy management scenario (Delta 3, Lu?). Us CFI's out here in the trenches need sensible explanations to pass on to students--something better than "it's always been done that way."