ilewis33
Heliman
Location: Norcross, GA
| One thing that I found helpful was to reduce the spring-centering force in my transmitter. (You take the back off and adjust some screws). I reduced the spring force to the minimum on both sticks, and took off the "ratchet" on the throttle. This let me have a much lighter touch on the cyclic, since there is now very little force to overcome when correcting. Removing the throttle ratchet let me put the throttle at exactly the right value for hovering - with the ratchet, I was always going back and forth between two clicks.
Other random tips -
- Focus on the rotor shaft or the top of the rotor head when hovering. This is the first piece of the heli to move. When you focus on the heli body, you are always behind in your corrections, because the body is always catching up to the rotor head.
- Avoid wind, no matter how tempting it is to fly. 99% of my initial crashes were due to wind.
- When making corrections, if the transmitter is trimmed ok, and there is no wind, most of your corrections should be:
centerstick -> correct -> return to center immediately.
On my first heli, I would see it drifting left, so I'd hold the stick right, and the heli would go right, and keep going since I was still holding the right, then I'd slam it left, etc., etc.
Anyway, I'm no expert, but since I just figured it out for myself recently, these are what seemed to help me the most. |
- overcorrection or hovering too low to ground - increase altitude or develop lighter touch 
