chopperdudes
Posts: 648
Joined: 8/19/2006
From: Toronto,
ON, CANADA
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i think that once you can hover and are progressing to ff, i would suggest the use of the idle up function. when in idle up, it'll keep your headspeed up and you'll do much better in wind, also, when your in fff and you want to stop, pulling bak the elevator will kill the forward momentum but it will be transfer to upward motion as if your doing a stall turn. idle up helps that too. even if your just hovering and you want to try higher altitude hovering, i'd also suggest you use the idle up, if your in normal mode, lowering the throttle will be hardly noticible until a few sec later, your reaction will be to lower the throttle even more, you'll then see it floating down and not long afterward... dropping down like a rock. be careful though if you increase the throttle, do it SLOWLY, if you jab it, the tail will 99.9% swing to the right and cuold get you disoriented. winds and gust will also suddenly increase the altitude of the heli real quick, idle up helps too.
ok... enough with the fff and high hovering... lets get bak to grass roots...
DO NOT use the idle up switch UNLESS you can hover (tail in and side in) VERY comfortably through a whole battery without hairy moments, i'd also suggest you progress into slow ff before going higher than 10ft.
i learnt on my own with a set of training gears before i read radd's. but i'm proud to say that i havent broken a single part while learning to hover. but that's all different now. yesterday, i was doing some fff on my street and and kinda some stall turns, (more like an upside down u) and dunno how, (dumb thumbing i think) i dumped onto the street while doing a right hand turn. so i throttle down, or rather... throttle max and full negative cauz i was flyign in idle up. and after about 2 sec did i realize that i was in idle up. evne though my tail rotor flew 10 feet and the tail gear 10 feet the other way, all i broke was my set of cf blades and bented mainshaft w/ striped gears. it proves how tough this heli is. (i was lucky it didnt burn out the 4 in 1 though.  (i didnt put the fuse on it yet, going to)
and zackesch,
buy a set of training gears if you havent already. and make sure your in control of the heli, not the other way around. crashes are gonna happen adn that's sad but very true.
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i wont buy anymore helis, i wont buy any more helis, i wont, wow! is that a ? i won't buy any more starting tomorrow.
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