Thanks, everyone, for the advice! This is a very helpful community
I know about Chuck's guides, I'm using the Huey one already. Such a high quality user contribution is quite amazing.
With the Huey I obsessively tried to first learn everything about it before I really fly it and so now have much more hours on guides, video, manual than flying. When I get to Ka-50 I will definitely have to approach it with a different strategy.