I oft tell the tale of doing autorotation practice with Tony in an Enstrom .He always slammed the collective down so hard the helicopter jumped in fright and was equally fierce rolling back the throttle ,but one time the engine stopped for real. He put it down in a field of standing corn so smoothly that the ears of wheat were standing upright poking through the engine louvres. I swear when we took off again the only sign we'd been there was a small patch of flattened corn under the belly.
Great character who started off on Dragonflys if I remember.