Advanced Orientations
 

How far have you advanced while learning to fly?

Post what you are working on.

Skipping and bouncing,
hovering,
45 degrees,
side in,
135 degrees,
nose-in,
slow pirouettes,
forward flight,
figure eights,
circles,
flips,
loops,
inverted flight,
inverted hovers,
other?

I have a hard time with figure eights, and then reverse figure eights. When the heli is turning nose-in out at the side, it can get lost in my head for a moment. Is it Side-in or nose in? Next, backwards flying circles and figure eights.[sm=spinnyeyes.gif]

RE: Advanced Orientations
 

GEEEZ!!! I'm not working on any of the above...

still working on hovering - nose out I do alright, nose in I suck!!! there's something I'm missing on that!

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hmmmm...
Tail in hovering
Side in
NOT smashing it into little bits

The last one is my absolute fav :D

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I at side-in too. Not doing too bad.

I'm also trying nose-in, but the heli often gets ahead of me.

I think I've been too busy modifying it to fly it. :)

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figure 8's and nose in hovering.

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I've got side in hovering down pretty good now.
Been just hovering around the yard, going high, coming back down, a little left side, a little right side.
Started practicing some nose in hovering yesterday and learned a valuable lesson, don't go nose in too far away from you until you have it down when the heli's close.
I stacked it twice yesterday; fought it for a good 10 seconds before it looked like it was gonna hit either the fence, or a large pine tree. Lots of Wooooh!, woh!, woooh!, that's when I gave up and shut er down.
I managed to get away with just one broken blade grip from that one.
The second one was not nearly as excitining, lol. I only popped off the training gear.
Now I've got a very slight vibration, not enough to effect flight, but you can see it in the training gear/antenna. It bugs me just enough to have to fix it. I think it's gonna be blade tracking due to the replacement of the blade grip.
Welp, time to go do some fly'n.:D

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Thats what I would call DAIPER FLYING. The kind of flight experience that would be a bit more comfortable while wearing a daiper in case you #$@% yourself.

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Just 4 or 5 good flights in hovering last nite without crashing. I was so proud of myself. Did a few side in's too but not by choice. And one hand catch save when it flew backwards up and over my head. Called it quits for the nite after that.

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I've got 'Dynamic Rollover' down pretty good.
Landing the heli on it's side seems to be a natural, for me.
Windmilling is working well,
Hovering in an area of less than 20 feet in diameter is still somewhat of a challenge,
Forward flight? Controlled? They are supposed to do that?

I think I just need a more stable bird, something along the lines of, say, 16 or 17,000 pounds GVW maybe........

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:D:D

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LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey don't worry about it... I hit the house this morning. You would think that of all the things in a backyard the one thing you should be able to miss is a house. Well guess who hit one? Yup... ME!! No major damage to the house though. [sm=punching.gif]

RE: Advanced Orientations
 

So far for me:
Tail-in, nose-in and side-in hover (having a harder time with right side than left side for some reason).
When I'm feeling brave, I'll do a very slow FF :).