This weeks vid...back to basics. Nose in with a crash.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGoOW51_oz8[/youtube]

Thanks mulikow for all the great videos. I was always told to think "Stick To It" when doing nose in. In other words when doing nose in move the cyclic in the direction the heli is moving to make corrections. This really helped me in actual flight, especially when hovering nose in.

By the way it's great to see someone really having fun in this hobby. When I crash I get a big laugh out of how dumb the move was.

Thanks again and keep up the fun vids.

Thanks for watching...im glad you enjoy them.

Awesome video and great attitude after the crash!

Back in 1982 a guy named Dusty Baron was learning to fly helicopters at the field. We had no such thing as a sim back then so I watched his progress as he learned to hover. One day as I was approaching the field I saw this plane looping and rolling and stall turning as I watched from a distance. As I got closer I noticed it was Dusty with his helicopter!!!! I stood in awe as he hammered his heli through each manuever. When he landed I asked him what he had done to learn that since the last weekend!!! He said he just got bored with hovering and he pushed the stick forward!!! Suddenly it was flying like an airplane!

I made a vow to myself when I started flying helicopters a year and a half ago that I was not going to use a sim! I needed to know that if Dusty could do it in 1982, then I could do the same in 2007! The only sim time that I had was when I messed with the sim in the hobby shop and I never bought one myself. In fact I couldnt even fly the helicopters on the sim before I started learning on my ZX Shuttle. I found that the more I flew the Shuttle the easier my play time on the hobby shop sim became. So I guess I've done it in reverse. I couldnt hover upside down on the sim but then I started parking my Shuttle upside down in a loop and then holding it for a few seconds. After that I could suddenly fly the sim inverted..........strange but true. I only had 3 crashes in a year and a half. The first boom strike, one dumb thumb and one from flying extremely fatigued and loosing orientation.

The most stressfull moments were during my first fwd flight, my first loop and my first roll. Once you survive those, the basics are burned into your brain forever!

This vid was shot by a fellow heli pilot with a whole group of heli pilots egging me on to push my limits. They've been amazing support to be all that I could be and I cherish their friendship. This was my second attempt at forward flight and one of my first attempts to point nose in with shakey results and a bail out but we had a blast on that gusty windy day!!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXoJyiFBHvU



Tony

I didn't use a sim to learn, I started on a shuttle zxx and never crashed until the film on the wood blades let go, but it was only a boom, blades and everything else were fine. I also used to switch off the gyro and practice just to make things interesting. I now have a sim and I mainly use it to practice 3d.

Hey! I have got to try that gyroless flight myself sometime! I guess I could just start dialing down the gyro gain to get the feel of it as I go. Should be interesting practice!

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