everywhere ive been reading they make it out to be really hard?my RTF should come in tomorrow so i guess we will see i also ordered training gear with it cause im sure ill need it

Some people pick it up quickly some people never do. Most can do it with practice and patience. There's a 9 year old in Rochester flying demo 3d flights at fun fly's.

The biggest key is a reliable, well set up helicopter that has been flown and trimmed by an experianced flyer. Its down hill after that and gallon or so of fuel.

Nitro ships are more stable and easier to see and therefore easier to learn to fly than squirelly little electrics.

I think it really just comes down to persistence. Too many people come into this hobby thinking a helicopter will just hover it's self. And when they try to fly it, and learn that it most obviously does not, they get discouraged. The less pre-conceptions you learn, the better. Take it slow and easy, learn all you can from those around you, and most importantly, practice. That's all there is to it. If you're persistant, you will get it.

heh heli's are ABSO-FRIGG-DEFIN-OLUTELY hard to hover! In side, well that's easy, outside, that's another story, I've never flown inside. so that's sometimes a problem. ok now when you get it USE IT go out and bumble around on the ground. Don't get over 2 feet, please, if you do your just stupid and calling for a crash. The main problem with flying is the mind. so if you learn on your heli the first 20 minutes are completely vital to understanding your heli and learning to fly.

OK you got me started, i'm going to tell you every thing you should know to set up that heli.

for the first thing, what heli do you have? is sounds like a 36, or a 35 or maybe a blade/honeybee. skip the the next sentance if you have a motor driven tail. Push the servo holder on the tail back until when in neutral postion, GYRO off, the little slider piece is centered imbetween the blades and the tail. next make sure your main blades never go over 15 degrees, you could maybe put more... but NEVER EVER go under 2 while learning if you use ABS blades and/or want to keep the skids intact. now after that once you get out to fly this is the time to decide wether to use a gyro or not. if you do decide to use one, there really is no turning back. if otherwise you can always put it back on. I'd say take it off unless you spent extra for it. Make sure your gear mesh has a tiny gap, just miniscule. now for the gear/ belt make sure the gear mesh is right, for the belt make sure you can autorotate the main blades easily and don't feel much restance, but if you can't counter rotation of the blades your belt is just too loose, or one of the little plastic gears is stripped. good luck on this and if it's the 36/35 learn out side IF it's not windy, winds that are blowing your hair around is too much until you have at least used 10 batt cycles. then you can try a little more at your own risk, if you have a brushless on it.

I don't think hovering is hard to learn or do, as long as the wind is not bad. I've only been flying my heli for a few weeks and can hover it and do some basic flight no problem.

I learned to fly inside my apartment and when you go outside it just seems too easy. Flying indoors helped me a whole lot with learning the basic hovering functions. When outside hovering becomes natural but now I'm learning forward flight and proper orientation. Just take it one step at a time, you can't expect a baby to run if they can't walk yet.

The problem I have seen with new fliers lately is the urge to try funnels and tic tocs before they master hovering in all orientations, doing figure 8's without changing altitude on the up and down wind legs etc, stuff that got hammered into my brain with lots of practice before getting crazy by the person that helped me along when I learned.

Of course when I learned there wern't many people flying the current flying style.

huh?

a 2 foot hover isn't that hard and usually comes within the first hour of flight time, at least it did for me. but staying completely still is a whole different matter. then comes head in which is kinda hard to get th hang of. it's fun though

This past Saturday I reached a milestone, I managed to hover and return to earth and the aircarft was in one piece, mostly in control. A couple of things led to my finally reaching this milestone.

1. Find a place with enough room. I was trying to hover the Shogun either in my back yard or my driveway and everytime I got it going, something seemed to get in the way so I would chop the collective and break a blade or worse. Saturday I found a park with a basket ball court and no one around. The difference was amazing. With some room you have more time to think and act.

2. Solve the issues with the helicopter. I have fought with the tail rotor and collective on the Shogun V2 for weeks. Finally I got them working properly and now that I solved this, flying is much easier.

3. Use a simulator. I can fly the pro extreme pattern on Real Flight 3, it made all the difference, but the real thing is much more difficult because the simulator has a more stable aircraft to fly. Still I could not have accomplished anything without it.

That's my story and I'm stickin to it.