New video series: Nick Maxwell's One Tank Tip™

[joallen001]

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[sirtwan]

I love the Nick Maxwell One Tank Tips

[Hnnguyen85]

Looking forward to more videos.

[sp00fman]

^ ^ bump ^

+1 vote for a sticky. I hope there will be more vids like this. THe piro stuff is sinking in pretty well for me. These videos where the best way for me to get an understanding how to progress.

[skaluf]

The weather is hit and miss right now but we are trying to get a couple of more One Tank Tips shot soon. Stay tuned!

Steve

[conefree]

Thanks Steve, keep up the good work!

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[sp00fman]

New vids out. good stuff!

Nick Maxwell One Tank Tip: Nick Tocs (2 min 21 sec)

Nick Maxwell One Tank Tip: Horizontal Funnels (2 min 42 sec)

[conefree]

Edit: got them both to work now. Great work guys! Keep up the good work

[Heli.Maniac]

Sweet stuff, already on the sim trying them out

[RogerRabit]

Some new ideas.. Great videos.

[gitbse]

I love the horizontal funnels. Ever since I saw Nick break those out in a night flight, it was a mission to learn them. Every time I break them out at the field my buddies are like

[willr001]

Agreed excellent work, and a refreshingly new (to me at least) method of trying to learn to piro flip. Now I can try something other than random stirring/banging.

Thanks a bunch!

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[KYM]

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[ArchmageAU]

Originally Posted by willr001

...and a refreshingly new (to me at least) method of trying to learn to piro flip. Now I can try something other than random stirring/banging.

Nothing in 3D flying should be "random stirring/banging". You should have a plan as to what pattern you are trying to fly. This way, when you get it, you will be able to do it consistently.

You may find cool things through "happy accidents", but repeating them on-demand becomes the issue.

Nick tocks to me look like tick tocks with a 180 rotation round an axis between each end. That could be rudder, horizontal or vertical (x, y, or z). Middle point could be straight transitional (no stop), one point (always back to the same side) or two points (diamond).

Horizontal funnels are not always horizontal. From hover they are more 45 degree axis funnels. When done round a circle, they get much closer to full horizontal. It's a cool variation on the roll (as explained).

In my sim play time, slowly working toward piro-flips through tightening mobiuses. Mobiuses on their owns are cool. I practice all direction mobiuses (there are 16 of them) and they are all laughably bad at the moment. When I get prio-flip I want to be able to reverse it (and start from any orientation), so it will be a LONG journey. Mind you I am probably insanely ambitious.

[sp00fman]

16 mobious transitions? cool. could you explain how you got that number? would like to practice that also.

I got pretty far learning the half piro flips, but am struggling with collective. I plan to start learning the piroflips all over again but now viewed from the side. what way i should be able to judge my collective a lot better and easier to see if i keep the rotordisk straight. Love to start to do piro loops, so that orientation is mandatory anyway

[RogerRabit]

16 moebius

Forward normal cw- Forward inverted - ccw
backward normal cw - backward inverted - ccw
sideways left normal cw - sideways left inverted -ccw
sideways right normal cw - sideways right inverted -ccw

Forward inverted cw - Forward normal ccw
backward in..
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Forward normal ccw - Forward inverted cw
.......you may fill in ...
sideways right inverted ccw - sideways normal right cw



For the piroflips a tip

Fly them very very slow along a line with the sim Speed dialed down.
care for exact precision
tail beeing 45 degree at 45 degree disk, tail beeing 90 at 90 degree disk e.g.
feed in the path ofset at 90 degree in the beginning, later also at 45´s, later continious.

with beeing along a line you see the errors in steering direct.
Care that the heli is not climbing and falling.

The Loop is easy.

Just do a stationary and play a little with pitch. you will be able to fly a Loop quickly after you mastered the line.

To master the disc orientation fly the halfflips arround a circle and care that the disks flipping direction is always tangential towards the path.
It is easier at the beginning to do a ccw tail in a ccw flown piroflipping circle and a cw tail in a cw circle (do not ask me why?)

Be sure to train all 4 halfflips equal time so you do not get a preferred direction, e.g.
disk flipping backward - rudder cw
disc flipping forward - rudder cw
disc flipping backward - rudder ccw
disc flipping forward - rudder ccw

But start the next direction after you mastered one.

Also know that the correction for the path is allways 90 degree to the cyclic where you are - e.g. when you are on dragging back cyclic part of the flip the correction for the path is cyclic left/right , if you are on the cyclic left part of the flip the path correction is push/drag on cyclic.
There is no real logic for the corrections to be remembered so you have to train them into the muscle memory - there is no shortcut.

For the collective on the Flips

Most time you use too much collective and too early.
It helps a lot in the sim to use a nitro and tune it down to 70% engine power.
You Change the collective late and fast and not too much.
Trick is to look at the heli and feel the point it is starting to drop. Then you change collective and feed in quick, but not too much and not before. Stabelize it in between after halfflips helps you to get the timing better.

This is just like i have the feelings on those.

[Crash_Expert]

+1 for the sticky

[insurroundsound]

subscribed as well...thanks for sharing!!....looking forward to more helpful vids!!