Mart,
There are break-away cyclics, as you suggest. The funny thing about airbags is that the Army insisted in installing them in the Comanche, even though it had a side stick that was no head hazard at all!
The typical landing in service is usually less than 1.2 g, and a really rough one might be 1.5 (on a bet I once flew a traffic pattern to a landing and stayed below 1.1g on the g meter!)