Let me describe my efforts at using the Jet Ranger's tie-downs.
There's a long piece of webbing with a tennis ball on one end and a metal hook in the other. Throw the tennis ball over the blade and catch it, thus you can pull down the bendy blade and stick the metal hook into the end. Then the webbing is securely tied to some part of the fuselage.
That's sort of the theory.
As a girl, I am genetically predisposed to be incapable of throwing a ball. So, my instructor suggested that using about a foot of the tape, I swung the tennis ball like a sideways lasso and launch it over the rotor blade. Unfortunately I swung the ball the wrong way and ended up throwing the whole gubbins into a field of cows next door.
Next problem, being only 5'4", was trying to reach the special tie down lugs. After watching and laughing for ten minutes, my instructor told me that there was a ladder in the boot!
Cheers
Whirls