Well, I'd never done autos down to the ground for my PPL, apart from having one demonstrated on my GFT - I think you're supposed to in the UK, but seems not all schools do. I feel a lot more confident about the whole thing now I have, though I haven't done one unassisted yet. I've heard the whole thing about if you make it to the flare you'll survive - but it's not very convincing somehow. More importantly, I didn't realise how much forward airspeed you could still have safely on landing, till we'd done a few.
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Whirly
To fly is human, to hover, divine.