Originally Posted by
ExFokkerFlyer
Airplanes are inherently stable. Helicopters are not. FBL gyros are not used to improve one's flying, but to make the models actually flyable. We used paddles or heavily weighted blades in the past to do this, but it was never as good as the full three axis gyro. It's not about precision for 99% of people (F3C just allowed them this cycle), it's about being able to fly them.
With stabilisation, F3A or any other RC fixed wing no longer has to be stable. Imagine that cat thrown in amongst the pigeons with a future schedule and designs to exploit it?
One thing that the FBL in Heli's has improved is the pureness of the inputs. For me, 3/4 of the mental workload with Heli aerobatics is identifying and correcting the impurity of the inputs. Simply doing a 360 piro hovering in wind was a bit of a dance on the sticks. Sure flybar ratios and whatnot could have been tweaked better but my eyesight isn't super flash either and depending on light conditions it could take a second or more to recognise something oddball that needed correction.