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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I pick helicopter because it's insanely difficult to learn.
Also because of the TV show Airwolf when I was a kid.
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I think both the autogyro and the helicopter's controls are pretty straight forward, but are more complicated than a fixed wing aircraft as you have such variables as rotor speed. The helicopter also adds colective pitch control.
I like the autogyro because of it's history and how Juan de la Cierva built it to overcome certain dangers of fixed wing aircraft at the time and ironically decided to travel once in a fixed wing aircraft and died from it.
Also, as a driver that takes the back roads I like to go slow and smell the flowers, and autogyros and helicopters can go slower than typical fixed wing aircraft. In both there's the potential for vertical emergency landing.