Headswim,
You're on the right track my man, sim time is great, you don't break anything.
I've flew planks for several years and the heli for a year now. You're in for wonderful hobby. It can get frustrating at times, so take your time and be patient. Sounds like your tons of reading has paid off, small stick movements is a key factor in smooth flying/hovering. NO TRICKS, like you said, Practice, practice and practice some more.
If you don't have anyone to help you learn to fly, then, as Eddo22 mentioned, follow the RADD'S school of rotary flight.
Just saw your last post. Regular flight mode or hover training mode.. Similar to having training gears on the heli and learning to hover/fly and then taking them off.. It does make a difference and somewhat easier to fly, but always remember, YOU have to fly the heli all the time.
What model heli are you getting? Just curious, makes all the difference on who can help ya.
Dave / Choppersrule
ORIGINAL: headswim
Hey guys, first off, just wanna say i LOVE these forums. I've been doing tons of reading and it's definitely helping me out. I'm currently working with G3.5 for learning to hover. A friend of mine at work has her ex's elec heli for me that she's bringing in next week. I have no intentions of trying anything with it yet. My question pertains to I guess muscle movement with hovering. I am finally getting the hang of keeping stick movements very small, but what I'm wondering is if there's a trick to keeping it small, but also making it more fluid. In G3.5 I'm only working with the small boundary in the hover trainer, and I am definitely noticing improvements, but I also notice that my movements could be more fluid, which I'm trying to focus on, but it inadvertently leads to larger than necessary or wanted stick inputs which lead to me trying to recover a now very unstable heli. Are there any tricks to overcoming this? Besides the obvious of PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE! and MORE SIM! MORE SIM! MORE SIM! (Like I said, I've done a ton of reading in the last couple of weeks)