That good...

No "trickery" ( gyros ) is involved, but the planes are trimmed out and balanced for 3D. They have a small degree of stability in a hover... i. e. they will fall to the side after a second.

The choice of a plane is also important.

The plane needs large control surfaces that remain in the airflow of the prop, so they have function even it the plane is at full stall.

I move the C.G. aft on my 3D planes to the point that the plane flies level at mid throttle both upright and upside down, hands off.


I tell people that to do aerobatics you learn how to fly a plane in ONE direction... forward.

To hover you learn how to fly a plane in four directions... from the top, bottom and both sides as the plane feels like it is responding differently to your control inputs at each orientation.

To fly a heli you learn to fly the heli in EIGHT directions, forward, backward, left, right, forward inverted, backward inverted, left inverted, right inverted.

But helis are different and more difficult from planes, so if you learn to fly a heli, you'll quickly pick up planes, but you'll still go through a learning process for planes.

On the other hand learning to fly helis from the start is MUCH more difficult than learning to fly planes from the start. ( the CX type helis don't really count as they are ridiculously stable ).