I drove back to work doing practice autos to each stop light in my
mind.. If I could only do 'em that good in the helicopter... (and if
I could only find a solid block of 4-6 hours to hit the books every
couple days...)

Kevin,
Not sure if Q teaches this way, but each time I go back to Bell we
do the same routine and its every effective at getting me back to
where I can do a 180 from 300 feet and put it down on within
a couple feet of the target spot.

1: We start by doing a few straight hover autos into the wind
2: Then we do a series of LTE hover autos.
3: Quick Stops.
4: Quick Stops with a throttle chop at the end.
5: Engine failues during takeoff.
6: High (800 ft) straight in atuos
7: High (800 ft) 180 autos
9: Low straight and 180 autos
10: Zero airspeed autos (you probably wouldn't do these)
11: Hydraulic failures ( shallow appch with a run on landing)
12: Neutral, stuck left, and stuck right T/R failures

Your school is probably not doing full-down failures so you
wouldn't do #4, but the overall progression of things allows
you to increase your accuracy with each skill building on the
last one. It usually takes about 1.5 hours and 30 or so landings
to get through it.

I try to go out about once a month and do the same series at
home except the only full-downs I do are straight hover autos,
everyrhing else is a power recovery.

Bart