Wasn't there a neat hover platform you attached the copter to and it would swivel and rise a bit to teach safe hovering? I know I saw it in an add but can;t find it now.

There are such devices.

My opinion, better to use training gear and follow [link=http://www.dream-models.com/eco/flying-index.html]Radd's School of Rotary Flight[/link].

There was a guy with a online ID of something like "heli safe stand" that used to spam the forums with ads for his training stand. He does not spam as much recently.

Buy a sim and some training sticks. That thing doesn't replicate real world behavior that well anyways, it was called a Roto Pod.

I have the one you are talking about.
When I had my used Nexus 30 I used it and it did save me the hassle of crashing.
It's been sitting in my cabanon for almost 2 years, I just never put it for sale.

But I haven't seen it around for a while now.
Be glad to sell it though really cheap if interested. It just takes space.
PM me if you like.

Don't like to do this on the forum, it's just a coincidence.

Thanks for the info, I'll skip that thing. Just bought his new 50 size Heli-Max for my 1st copter. For down the road should I be sucsessful, do the floats they show work on these for water or is that a joke.

Floats make great training skids! They do work but when you spool up you will notice a slight vibration as the heli goes through resonance that smooths out when the rotor head gets up to speed and the blades find their balance, well thats magnafied about 10x when its on water.

I had a RotoPod ... I don't understand this. You say use traing sticks ... but the RotoPod was just a souped up stick platform.

I do know that I could configure my RotoPod two ways. One with the legs staight out from the teflon puck and one where the legs angled down. Straight out, the legs were no different than the "training sticks" you suggest except the "training sticks" produced 4 legs when X'd under the heli. The Rotopod had 5 legs.
With the legs angled down, this supported the heli off the ground and allow the heli to articulate a little in cyclic and YAW and remain on the ground. It was great for determine your t/r config without taking flight.
Rotopod trainer (shown with legs angled down) ... thanks Heliproz:

I believe the stand that is poo'd over is the whiteman stand. It looked something like this:

There is/was a device similar to your bottom picture called a roto pod that was articulating, thats the one I was pooing

Hi Guys,

You have everything confused here.

Heli-Safe Stands are mainly designed for the miniature electric helis. They are completely different from the Roto Pod ball and stick trainers, and the Whiteman Stand, both of which are designed for large gas helis.

Perhaps you could have a look at the Training Tool Section of RC Universe Classifieds here, to see the correct Heli-Safe equipment information.

Hope this helps you understand your training options out there.

Chuck