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Old 08-01-2002 | 01:17 AM
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Default When to try for the first time?????

OK, so I have been burning up my Real Flight G2 for a while now. I am just practicing new stuff, for the future. As for actuall flying? I am into basic aerobatics. I.E. rolls, loops, 540's, and stall turns. But I have been practicing nose in hover, and autos on my sim. I can hover nose in with no problems, and have gotten to where I can do autos all the way to the ground both nose in and tail in. I have even been flying on the sim until the heli "runs out of fuel" and then autoing it down. So when should I just try it for real? How much more dificult is it for real? Im not trying to sound stupid, but I find that the sim doesn't fly completely realistic. So I am just looking for moral support.

Thanks in advance! And wish me Luck!
Old 08-01-2002 | 01:29 AM
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You'll find that the first few times you'll have a hard time not because you can't do it but because of the "real factor". If you keep it in your mind that you not flying the real thing but the sim you'll over come you nerves. For example the piro flip, I could do it on the sim but not in real life till I just imagined I was flying the sim , and I did it. Now that I'm very proficient at nose in allot of maneuvers come very easy. For the the sim gave me the starting point or the feel for how a maneuver should go , flying it for real enforced it on my mind and helped me proficient it. Now I don't even fly the sim I feel more comfortable flying the real thing.

The most important thing is to learn nose in and ALL attitudes of the helicopter. What I do once and a while is hover the helicopter in one place as I walk around it while the heli hovers in one direction. This way I see all attitudes of the heli , then you do the same while inverted. Like Curtis said "once you learn the basics 3-D flying comes easer and faster".

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