Stall Turns
Banked Turns
Getting started with piroflips
Kaos!
Practising efficiently
Making the most of the simulator
Making it harder: No springs
Making it harder: Flying broomsticks
Slow-motion
Exercises
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Making it harder: No springs
The sim is idealized and in many ways too easy. Maybe it gets a bit
boring?
Here is one idea you can try (now and then, not all the time): Offset
one of the trims on your radio to
maximum. Now you'll have to "fight" constantly against the spring,
forcing you to "fly" the heli at any point during the move.
Start with rudder, and do some straight-line moves. It's very hard at
first, but gets easier quickly.
Then add more axes, until you are flying completely without the help of
springs. It won't look pretty, but it's an immensely useful exercise to
learn all those small corrections that should happen automatically all
the time (and do happen
automatically for experienced pilots).
| SIMULATOR ONLY: Hover with some of the trims on your radio at the limit, forcing you to correct all the time |
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| hover (preferrably nose-in), with the rudder trim at the limit |
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| hover (preferrably nose-in), with aileron trim at the limit |
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| hover (preferrably nose-in), with elevator trim at the limit |
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| hover (preferrably nose-in), with elevator, aileron and rudder trim at the limit |
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| SIMULATOR ONLY: Fly stall turns with some of the trims on your radio at the limit, forcing you to correct all the time |
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| stall turn U with rudder trim at limit |
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| stall turn U with elevator trim at limit |
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| stall turn U with aileron trim at limit |
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| stall turn U with elevator, aileron and rudder trim at limit |
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I sometimes use an old, broken radio, where the springs are removed.
It's a very effective learning tool, you see clear improvements within
a couple of minutes. I went through my whole catalogue of moves and
tried to make every variation work, at least somehow. It took a couple
of hours, but it has helped me a lot.
Occasionally practising without springs can give you a completely fresh
perspective on a move, helping your progress.
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