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Breaking it down
Even if it sounds easy - believe me, it is not: There is a lot of control input happening in a short time.
Every stick direction is equally important. Flying banked turns at speed is as challenging as any 3D move.
The picture shows the different phases.
A segment is a continuous flight phase: I can fly straight to the horizon, and keep circling until I run out of fuel. Transitions take the model from one segment to the next.
Here: practising efficiently is more info on segments and transitions.
The picture shows the move, as seen from above.
| S1 | The heli enters in straight forwards flight |
| Tr2 | The heli is rolled slightly left. When practising it very slowly, back off collective a little bit. |
| S3 | A short straight-line segment where the heli leans left. I show this as a separate segment, because it is very hard to do Tr2 and Tr4 at the same time. With increasing confidence, S3 will get shorter and should ideally disappear. |
| Tr4 | The heli is pulled into the banked turn |
| S5 | Half circle |
| Tr6 | Both Elevator and Collective are released. The heli enters the circle straight, leaning left. |
| S7 | Short straight segment. Pay careful attention to release collective and "unload" the heli. Since it's banked, the flight here is purely "ballistic", we don't float on collective. |
| Tr8 | Roll to level flight |
| S9 | Forwards flight. |
| T10 | Establish correct attitude in nick direction and collective for sustained forwards flight |
| S11 | Forwards flight |
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