jeffs555
Senior Heliman
Location: North Carolina
| That "amplifying the swing" you talk about is the classic sign of getting behind and chasing the controls that most beginners experience. It happens because in all helis, there is some delay from when you move the controls until the heli responds. If the heli starts moving in some direction, you apply a correction to the controls to stop it. You don't see it stop immediately, so you keep applying more correction until you see the heli stop moving. Because of the delay, you will have applied too much correction and held the correction too long. The heli will start moving in the opposite direction. So you apply an opposite correction, and again apply too much and hold it too long. You go back and forth a few times, each time applying more and more correction, until you are out of control. With practice, you will learn to anticipate the control delay, and your mind will correct for it.
Also, if you trim the controlls so the heli lifts off straight up, it will not be trimmed correctly for hovering. There is always a leftward drift that must be corrected with trim, but the drift at liftoff is more than that during hover, so if you trim out all of the drift from liftoff, it will be too much trim for hovering. Normally, you will have to apply some right stick at liftoff, and then release it when you get to a hover. |
) Once you get those other things done after every crash or hard landing
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