Learning to fly RC Helis

[davi]

LOL good a place as any. What Sim did you go for in the end?

[Nevin]

Reflex XTR, which seems to be sufficiently difficult. Trying to resist the temptation to send things skyward and then crashing down again is my main problem just now

[davi]

Good man, you went straight for the best

persevere, the hardest thing to learn is minimal movements, dont worry, every learner goes through this!!!

[4WD]

Had my first flight on a plane a few weeks ago: take off, full loop and vert crash at vmax. Only damage - snapped £5 prop. Cool fun

[JG911]

Hi all,

I brought a shuttle z last year to learn to fly but i found it too hard,you have to think all the time when flying heli's so i gave it up as a bad job.Stuck to r/c gliding.

[davi]

TBH that is only due to lack of practice - I bet you dont think half the time about gliders when flying them - it's all about reflex actions, muscle memory if you will. I honestly couldn't tell you how I hover, my brain instinctively sorts it out for me, I just concentrate on where I want to place the heli - It's just with Heli's it takes a lot longer for these reactions to become natural.

Interestingly, I have had a very long forced break from the models, I got the sim fired up the other day, only to find I could barely hold it steady for more than a few seconds. An hour later though, wasn't even thinking about it.

Edited by davi on Saturday 19th August 10:22

[JG911]

Yeh i suppose your right on that...gliders are easy to fly..i enjoy glider tho so ill stick with it lol....i do like the heli's tho love the 3D stuff they do.

[davi]

I'm absolutely useless at gliding, got 2 here, hardly ever flown them! can never seem to find the thermals and as for landing the buggers... I like being able to hover in

[JG911]

Oh landing is the best bit lol just float in what gliders have you got ?

[benzo]

I learnt on a 30. kalt space baron. I flew the kalt the first few times on my own. I used an empty playing field and stayed safe by standing behind a football net i.e. got in the goal and stood behind the goal net. If anything went wrong & i lost control, the heli would have hit the net and not me. If your flying alone, then thats a top tip.

You might well have seen this

www.compfused.com/directlink/557/

[mogul]

God, I used to be good with heli's and fly at shows but he makes anyone look like a complete beginner!

The main advantage he has is the modern gyros that are used - flying backwards etc is a lot easier..........that's not to say I would still stuff it into the ground!

[benzo]

hi mogul

That is some serious skills. Hear you about the gyros. The old mechanical jobs are not a patch on the piezo gyros. Remember the first ever piezo gyro fitted to a small cycle bike?

I love that video. My favuorite bit is when he puts his heli in an inverted hover about 2cm from the ground. If you look and (listen!) hard, then im fairly certain you can hear the rotor head button making contact with the tarmac.

Crazy stuff.

[kedelbach]

I know this will make the "real" heli pilots chuckle, but this little guy is absolutely too much fun:

www.hobbytron.com/RCHelicopterElectricPicooZ85615.html

can get them from radioshack.com for $29. I've crashed mine into walls/furniture/people about 50 times over 10 charges, no repairs (and no injuries ) and still flies great (have added a dab of putty on the nose to give more forward speed).

next step is one of these

www.precisionheli.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=c002

cheers
Kurt