soloboss

Here's something to test your ability.
Outside, when you have a calm spell, try this. Hover the heli at a couple of feet off the ground with the nose pointed in the direction you want to go. Then shove the right stick and the throttle stick forward to the max and watch the little bird rip across the yard. When you have gone far enough, bring BOTH sticks back to center - gently. Your heli should have gained about 20 feet of altitude for every hundred feet it flew away. If all is well, land the heli and shut down the power and let it sit for a few seconds to catch its breath - honestly, the battery will see a significant improvement even if you don't disconnect the battery connector. Now repeat the flight described above, and when it's out about 70 feet and 20 feet up, steer into a LEFT turn with the left (rudder) stick and she'll make a wonderful long arc turn-around. Bring the left stick (rudder) back to straight - then reduce the forward and throttle to mid-range. It's pretty dramatic and will make you look like a pro. And I think that part of the trick is to turn left while accelerating. It's a gyroscopic thing. I don't know that I've ever tried the same thing while turning right. Somebody go try it and let me know.
NOTICE: If you get nervous as it takes off in fast forward, don't just cut the throttle back or it will stick its nose into the dirt. And if you maintain full throttle and cut the forward stick it will go nose straight up, then fall out of the sky. Once you figure out the balance, you can hold the right stick full forward and control the altitude and direction with the throttle stick.
REMEMBER - Left Stick =Throttle = Altitude (and direction the nose points); Right Stick =Pitch (direction the heli flies) & Ground Speed .

I've written a number of articles about my experiments and things that I believed at one time to be true. And sometimes I was wrong. The guys in this forum have always been enthusiastic about my discoveries and polite about my errors. And we all learn.

For the record, the heli that I am flying to do the moves described above is a stock battery, stock motor, stock body (with the rear little horizontal wing removed). I have cut the body and the 4 in 1 case for ventilation and I have the aluminum motor heat sink and aluminum flybar hub / center shaft. My flybar is about 3/8ths inch shorter than stock ON EACH END. My weights are simply 3/16 outside diameter collars from the hobby shop. I use 2 on each end of the flybar and tighten the setscrew in the collars securely. I've flown outside with only one collar on each end but I need more room to maneuver as the performance is increased but the stability is not as good. And I'm still not a very good pilot.
I've worked with this maneuver a bunch and the body on my poor heli shows it. More tape than plastic! Those heavy weights slow the response some, but she'll still surprise you. The secret is to add a bunch of throttle when you push that right stick. The gyroscopic effect seems to be nullified when you change the rpm of the flybar / upper rotor.

I'll gladly accept any input from anyone else on this subject. I know what works for me and I'm still working on the performance aspects of this little heli with only minor revisions to the original design. Yesterday I did what I described above and I went into a long left rudder turn, then added too much left aileron (right stick) and I actually inverted the heli. I have the scratches on the top cover of the aluminum flybar holder to prove it. No, it was not a good landing, but it hit the flybar hub so perfectly inverted that it knocked the outer shaft collar (below the swashplate) out of adjustment and didn't break any blades!