ORIGINAL: Old Man Mike
... If you really want to reduce the maximum temperature levels for the motors just spray some compressed air into the top of each motor after landing. I tried this and it immediately stopped the post flight temperature rise.
Yes, I've done that a couple of times but canned air is not that cheap. Also, the kind that Wal-Mart sells has a bitter additive to prevent people (mostly kids) from sniffing it. Just rub your mouth after letting some of that air get on your fingers and yuck! I would think that would leave a residue of some kind too. I mostly just blow air from my mouth in the motor vent holes because I've got plenty of air to spare with all the mouth running I do, not to mention it's free.
ORIGINAL: BB_DF
Quantized Movment:
... I've found that the real progress starts when you get rid of the original idea of the heli moving in the same direction as your stick, and instead start imagining how the heli is going to react when you move the stick in a certain direction. ...
Universal Orientation
Think "when I push the stick forward, the nose rotor drops" - true in any orientation - rather than "when I move the stick forward the heli moves that way", which requires an additional level of thinking unless you're exactly tail-in. Likewise, regardless of its heading, think to yourself "if I move the stick to the right, which rotor is going to drop?". So when you need to correct, you know in advance what you need to do because you've already imagined it in your mind. You start thinking about what the heli needs to DO, rather than what DIRECTION it needs to go. For instance, as you fly near an obstacle, think to yourself "what stick action(s) will get me away from the object". This helps you to relax and gain confidence. It's like thinking in the native language, rather than translating everything from one language to another in your head first.
Very well stated BB_DF, especially the Universal Orientation method. That's exactly how I learned so fast. Not thinking about a two step process of stick input and reaction but only what the action was as if I was onboard. I started nose IN and have always flown better that way.