Corrected my typo ***

RADD

I had followed your advise and more. Sliding on the ground allows me to get use to the throttle and not getting afraid of the rota blade speed. It improves my response a little bit and it helps with the orientation that is for sure. However I had a couple of crashes with my first hovering attempt after battery pack 15... The chopper just came at me because I made a tiny mistake with the throttle or was it a glitch. I think the problem is with my response time.

RADD I had all the respect for your tutorial and would like to mention the tricks I used during my learning process. Maybe you can add that to battery pack 16. There are three extra steps I took which I helped me greatly. I guess what it does is to create reflex action to my fingers rather than having to think. This is particularly true when I now find that sometimes I have controlled the tail not by the rudder motor but by using the right hand stick. This is because by moving the right hand stick the collective also changes the rudder. This just come out of reflex after a lot of training.

Anyway here are the three steps I took. Hope this help all the people who are learning to hover like me.

Step 1.
Remove the training gear & the tail rudder. Tie a string about 2 meters long to the tail of the chopper to somewhere soft like a sofa so that if you make a mistake it does not damage the chopper. Start up the chopper rota and then put the left stick forward so that the chopper is trying to go foward. By doing this we don't need to worry about the rudder. Put on more power and the chopper should start to lift and the string fully stretch and the chopper aligned. Since the chopper is trying to go forward, you can practice on the throttle and the right hand stick. If the chopper gets out of control then just put more forward by pushing the left stick even more and add a little more throttle. This will correct any mistakes made by the right hand stick. Of course you can just land the thing if it gets out of control and it won't get damaged because it is limited by the string attached. After one or two battery this has become very easy for me. (I found this very difficult at first).

Step 2.
Put the rudder back on and tie the string to the back landing gear. Then do the same thing. This time you can practice the rudder also. This takes me 2 batteries to get used to.

Step 3.
Put on the training gear and then tie the stick to the mid section of the landing gear. This time unlike step 1 & 2, do not put the left stick forward. This time you can start to hover within the safety of the string and protection of the training gear. At first, you will rely a lot on the string to get you out of trouble. After a while you will know when you are ready to do the same thing with a longer string outside or even to remove the string for a real hover. Without the string, you would have many occasions where the chopper will sudden get out of your little 2mx2m area and you will have to decide whether to crash land it immediately or try to land it back and risk even more damage if you fail. I had oftened opted the later because the first option will definitely damage the chopper anyway. But with the string attached you don't have to make the decision.

Hope this help everyone.

Rob