OK I have to share my glee
and I promise I wont keep filling this thread with chubby post for a while....sorry all.
I took my heli outside today cause I had to have some room to start movin around with new found level of stability and confidence. I think it was too breezy for my skill level 3-5 mph.
I went for it though.
Thanks a ton copperdudes,
i started ff by flying circles around myself, more or less tail in at first, then turn the tail to follow the nose. then i actually started turning by doing a semi-stall turn. it'll fly from left to right in front of me (master side in first), then pull up to about 30~45 degree, and swing the tail around, no collective change, no aileron control, much easier, since a turn needs all 4 controls.
Today I decided with the wind I would just stay tail in and nose to the wind... Well it handled very stable and I got a taste for the added lift from the breeze and a good feel for the required throttle to compensate when moving into the wind and with it. I flew a hundred feet upwind in front of myself forward into the wind and backwards twords myself... I even went well to my side and behind myself(both myself and the heli still facing the wind) I even tryed some pretty fast forward flight until I would get around a hundred feet away and then came backwards back to myself...
Second batt I tryed some S-turns flying straight away from myself and felt good and comfy with leaning into the turn and bringing my rudder along wtih it all.
I didnt dare try a circle or fig 8 as I was afraid that my side in skills may not be up to par for the strong breeze as it was requiring a good deal of correction to compensate for.
I felt very good about going through two whole batt in soo much breeze with no crashing
so I called it a day and think I gonna start to like all this stuff a whole bunch more from here on out.
THANK YOU TONS everyone who has helped me get this thing dialed in.... I dont know if I would have kept with this whole heli thing much longer if I had never got my bird to fly nicely as you all helped it to fly....
Thank again, Noah