To whom it may concern,
Dear Sirs;
Having done severe damage to my entire fleet of sim helicopters, I went in search of an alternative to my radical flight characteristics. I discovered the Clearview Simulator option to use a time base slower than what is described as "real world" time. Suddenly I am seeing the rotor 'plate' response to my inputs so I can correct the input before the heli actually makes a move. I am, for the first time, actually training myself to control the helicopter through the correct application of controls. I feel that this will dramatically improve my abilities, as I am now teaching myself to make the *correct* moves in the correct amount. Speed will come later when I am always making the correct stick movements. It is my hope that this will reduce the carnage left on the flight field at my departure.
I apologize for the destruction of the air fleet supplied with the simulator. I'm hoping to alleviate my pathetic flight controls before I am busted to dirigible hack.

Also noted is the importance of properly calibrating the controller. Done correctly, the Tx will deliver linear inputs. Prior to this discovery, I was seeing extremely non linear response inputs and was blaming my Tx for my erratic flight.

Perhaps others who see this post will recognize the benefit of slow training as an improvement over merely making errors faster - and at no cost. At last I am training as it was intended.

In closing, I would like to leave the following message for those using the ClearView simulator.
THIS THING ROCKS!!! Set it up and slow it down.
Soloboss

oh solo you make me giggle

like running the servo linkage in the screw closest to the hole, eh?

i'll see if it works in fms (i need to work on my turns anyway, no more rotor heads left lol) - oh crap i'll have to air out the house if i run it cause it only runs in windoze


edge

Yeah, it's kinda like moving the linkage hole. But the whole thing is in slow motion. Pick how slow you want to be. Real time is 100%. I'm at 70% and I'm impressed with the result. I'll try other settings, but the 70% seems to give me just the right balance. I want to be able to hover the heli in any direction, just in front of the camera.

For the first time I feel like I am actually training!

when you get comfortable, turn on the wind - fms has a wind setting of random gusts where you set the max wind speed of the blast - this helped me a whole lot on the real heli to handle the weirdness


edge

Oh yeah, that's just what I need. I know, you are absolutely correct. It's the real world.
I also fly Microsoft Flight sim and I'm a real fan of the DC-3. I was feeling pretty good about that one until I turned on the wind. I gained a lot of respect for DC-3 pilots!

i wish there was a setting to slow things down in real life when things go terribly wrong - i suppose that just comes with experience

just got the email that the boards are ready - headed out west - taking both the hbfp and the cx2 - see you guys later on - hope to get some heli video


edge

The clearview sim is the best! I love it. I fly the Trex 450xl in it all the time and have gotten so confident that I think I could fly the real thing.
Now how do I convince the wife I need to spend a thousand dollars on a helicopter and tx?

buy her a $10,000 tennis bracelet for Christmas. And you can slip a Trex in for you and she won't even notice.

In your very confident flight, can you hold the heli with its nose in the camera? I'm sill working on that. I can hold a stable hover at a distance, but I can't get it to hold at the "in my face" position.
Practice, practice, practice.
I fly the HB FP as it's pretty close to my Falcon 40. I thought that coordinated turns at speed would be simple - sort of like a rudder turn with an airplane. Wrong. More practice. Good thing I got the sim.

I'm finding that the 70% speed lets me think about what I'm doing, then do the right thing. Burning brain paths for good flight takes a lot of repetition of correct flight moves.

That's why I don't have a Trex in my hanger, still can't nose in hover without a holy moly move to save it....but I'm getting better. I've actually been focusing on nose in hovers with the CX2 and it's really coming along nicely. Just have to remember....sticks toward danger! Works everytime. You know Dentists would make excellent RC heli pilots, they are used to doing everything in a mirror, same type of principle!

So put a mirror on the nose of the heli.
Wait a minute.
That's not gonna work.
Never mind.

Oh, get a Doctors license. Be a dentist! Then you can not only afford a Trex, you can fly it too!

Yes great idea solo....worst part is paying for school.....could have an entire fleet of Trex's for what that would cost. Plus I'm damn near 40....the thought of all those years of school at this age is enough to make me wanna cry!

A high school friend of my wife (she's way younger than me) decided at 40 years old that he was going no where and his love of fine motorcars would have to be shelved unless he found a better income. So he went to school. Now he his happily married, has his degree (he's an eyeball doctor) and he is $1,300,000 in debt. Is that the way it's supposed to work? Anyhow, he's got the income. If he can just outlive the debt!

Wow....my little bit of debt is nothing compared to that! Wow!!!!! Thank god I like what I do...the pay sucks....but I sure like it