I did my ag training in Pennsylvania at Agrotors using Bell 47 and Hiller, i also owned a G3B1 for a few years. They are great machines but have no place in the modern world of aviation ! When you have finished your training the chances of you flying a machine with twist throttle with no correlation will be zero.....and the chances of you flying a machine which gives you time to read the flight manual before dropping collective when the donkey stops is definitely zero! In my book a very poor trainer as it is too forgiving and now very expensive to run. Why look any further than the Schweizer or Hughes 300c definitely the best in every category. ps and it can carry fat F******s too.
Just looked at video of auto...not very impressed! You can do zero airspeed landing and then take off again , do a 360 turn and then land ! My old mate Dick Meston used to do it regularly. Also you HAVE to be joking about the Hiller as a trainer !!!