Bravo Bravo73, the sound of common sense. However, I have never flown a fixed-thing thingy so I cannot make direct comparisons but, if I had a choice of an engine failure (single engine of course) in a helicopter or aeroplane, I'd go for the helicopter!!
Admittedly, during autorotation, you may well be descending at 1,000 fpm and you may well have been only at 2,000 in the first place but that is two whole minutes to pick your space to land! And we don't need much space!! We don't need a runway!! So, large gardens, small fields - that's all we need!
However, the cost per hour to fly even the cheapest R22 is just over double so much more costly. I wouldn't recommend a trial lesson in a helicopter because, if you do, you will be hooked straight away and then there would be no looking back and you would end up spending thousands more on your PPL.
Years and years ago, I had a flight in a small Cessna and I thought, "yeah, that was fun; I'd like to do that someday!" Then, four years ago, I had the opportunity to fly in the back of a Bolkow 105 (Police helicopter - quite military). As soon as I jumped out, grinning ear to ear, I said, "I've got to do that!" And within the year, I got my PPL(H). Fixed wing was fine but it was obviously not enough of a hold on me to make me want to do it. Heli was.
Get a fixed wing licence, build hours on that and do helicopter licence later. If you plan to go commercial and work as a pilot, then hours required for many jobs can be either fixed wing or heli - insurance companies don't seem that fussed!
Cheers
Whirls