imukdude

To fly a heli, you must first understand a heli's functions, how it works and why it does what it does.

A heli is not going to fly like a plane, it's not that easly done at first. Your basically controlling a gyroscopic machine in the air. When you push it to do one thing, the gyroscopic actions will cause it to do another. Sometimes in ways that seems impossible to figure out. By careful observation, you will realize that when you input one command the heli will react that way all the time.

For example. When lifting off the increasing rpm and rotation of the blades will cause the heli body to rotates in the opposite direction. Newton's law of motion. The tail is there to counter act this tendency. However now you are putting a new parameter in the equation. As the blade rotates the tail rotor will counteract this motion at the same time push the heli in the direction it is acting on. For this heli the action observed when lifting off is that the heli will want to wander to the left. This is where right cyclic is given to prevent this leftward veering action.

The same opposite is given when landing. The heli will rotate right and left cyclic along with the apropriate rudder coordination is being used. I don't want to get into too much, I know most people will see a post that's more than 2 lines and just skip over it. I do that most of the time if I'm in a hurry to look for something else.