Hello,
We work and train in EC 120 and AS 350. The machines behave quite alike, but 350 need almost 2 times more power to control at low speed.. They are both controllable in flight, landing , hover and take off. A very few tricks but lot of pwer and guts is required.. Most important is the 350 goes right down to 15 knots, then it goes to left with EVERYTHING, be prepared with the controls. If you loose the machine to left it is very tough and you need LOT of control movement to get it back.
SASless, the problem is the elastomeric stuff, straight and level works with small movements w/o any bigger effort but at low speeds it feels like whole world is against you. And wrong rubber parts below -25 C makes it impossible.
fly safe