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Old 01-22-2005 | 06:48 PM
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bluelotus
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Default Forward flight

Hello everyone!

I'm pretty new to RC helis, about a month or so ago I purchased a Dragonfly from HobbyJapan. Now I can hover pretty steady a full battery pack in my living room. Sideways hover is so so, and nose in hover, I've mastered it in FMS but when I do it with the heli I get more nervous and have to crash/land it often.
Now I want to move on to forward flight, but every time I move the cilcic forward and the heli picks up speed the nose rises and the heli stops. I've read this is normal on fixed pitch helis, but does any of you perform forward flight with a fixed pitch heli relatively decently?? Any help would be appreciated! And could anyone explain the phisichs behind the fact that a FP heli does it and a CP heli doesn't?? Just curious, I'm quite into planes, I've flown RC gliders for some time and I'm a full scale pilot too, but helis are just that misterious and tricky flying machines that always intrigued me but never got to until now.

Thaks a lot for any help I can get!

Congratulations for this forum!! It has really helped me to get my heli well set up, and thanks to it now I'm able to hover it right in my tiny living room.