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08-03-2011, 01:48 AM | #61 (permalink) | |
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08-06-2011, 08:59 AM | #62 (permalink) |
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I've been playing video games since i was a child. I'm sure that's the reason i learned to hover in 1 hour after build my first heli. Learned forward fly in 2 hours, and backward fly in 3 hours. Or maybe i just born to do this :-)
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08-22-2011, 12:37 AM | #63 (permalink) |
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There is certainly some very good points in martin_05's methods.
In my very early stages of learning one of the first things that came to me was the simple fact that hovering a heli and flying a heli are two different things. For me, hovering was BORING!!! So naturally I wanted to actually fly around as much as possible, and began focusing on that. Now, obviously hovering in all orientations is a needed and valuable skill, but in my learing experience it was not nessesary to "master" hovering to learn to fly, and in fact learning to fly around and control the heli inharrently made me better at hovering. I also learnt to flip and roll long before inverted hovering. Inverted hovering did indeed happen as a by product of slowing down flips and rolls and eventually stopping them, but even more than that inverted forward and backward flight actually helped me master inverted hovering even better. If I was attempting an inverted hover and the heli started to get away from me, I could now just fly out of it either forward or backward, bring it around and stop it again. Now, due to circumstance, this was all done on the sim. Phoenix is all I had to sate my heli addiction for almost two years. It felt like an eternity. However I am now glad for it, for now I knew how to completely control a heli in any orientation before ever taking my first flight. All that waiting and training paid off. Here is my 18th flight on my first heli. The sun was is my face here so I had to bail on a couple of orientations but no biggie. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DjJyz0uTJc[/ame] In the end, for me, my real heli learing time line is going to be pretty fast, but only because I was forced to take the time to learn completely on the sim first. Now instead of crashing a 600 size heli every flight or two, I can instead buy more heli's becuase I will not crash my 3D Plus often. Not even close. Realistically though, few if any people will spend 200+ hours on a sim before flying a real RC heli. But if you do... You will likely save a crap load of money in the long run.
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