Aaron29
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Location: Bossier City, LA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | If you want to get better, start by learning every orientation.
You can also learn the T maneuver in every orientation. This pays big dividends.
The T-maneuver that Curtis Youngblood talks about is pretty good. You basically bring the heli into a hover. Smoothly move 10 feet left. Stop there, and hover for a moment, to ensure you've stabilized. Smoothly move back to the center. Stop, stabilize. Then smoothly move 10 feet right. Stop. Hover. Then back to the center. Stop, stabilize, hover. Then move 10 feet forward. Stop, stabilize, hover. Then move 10 feet back. Stop, stabilize, hover.
Doing this maneuver, you trace like an upside down T on the ground. When performing the maneuver, you start out looking at the tail. As you move one direction you see one side. Then the other. This is challenging. Try to remain in complete control. Your sides of the T should be straight, not wavy lines.
Once you have it down tail in. Then you can do it nose in. Or left side in. Or right side in.
Then you can do it upside down.
Another method to help with orientation is to hover in each 45 degree quadrant to ensure any angle the heli is at you have control. It's surprising to see that flying the left side of the heli is not the same as the right. You'll be surprised how tough this is to do. But the reason it's tough is telling you that the correct input while the heli is in NON-hovering flight isn't just going to appear. You have to work at it.
Honestly, it takes discipline to get good at RC flying. It isn't fun doing orientation drills.
But if it were easy and fun to get very good....
....Everybody would be very good.
-Aaron |
