During a base check in a 76 doing the usual auto, flare, level, pull, rotor droop WAY DOWN, and ended up with a very nice full auto to the ground. The T & C'er (one of natures true gentlemen, Bruce Townsend) apparently made it his practice to pull this on all captains on a once only basis (failing to put the throttles up in the flare). Displayed a lot of faith I thought seeing that there was no pre brief (other than this will be the usual auto exercise blah, blah, blah), even though he said he only pulled the stunt if he was absolutely sure of success.