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Old 03-26-2003 | 08:52 PM
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Default Visualizing flight and controller inputs

Personally, I wouldn't try to use it. It makes sense now, but makes you think backwards about it. If you pull back, the nose will go up, and if you think of it that way, it sounds backwards. Too much thinking for learning. I don't mean for it to sound like it is wrong, because everyone has their own way to learn and teach and this seems to work well for him. I wouldn't teach it because it is very confusing to a student. Learn to fly the helicopter. You don't need to learn all the theory that goes along with what everything does. When you pull back on the stick right side up, the nose goes up.

Use what ever method works well for you, but don't try to think too much or you will never learn it. Get on G2 and fly a lot. Put the heli through the paces and put it in strange situations and learn to get out of them. There is no substitute for practice. By the time you think about where the nose is relative to the disc, the nose will be going through the disc and the dirt.

Don't take it personally barbary. I don't mean for it to sound like it does. Its just more complicated than a student can comprehend the way you are explaining it.