What a diffference a couple of fingers can make.......
Well everyone, have been flying for about four months thumbs only, just tried the old pinch menthod on Phoenix and oh my goodness, circuits are flatter and I feel like I have more control too.
Going to try with the mcpx outdoors tomorrow to see if it was just a fluke, but my advice, if you haven't tried 'the other way'before, give it a go......you might like it!!
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I really don't know how folk can fly heli's with just thumbs I've been using the pinch method from the start but still use thumbs only for planks :-/ Always meant to try and get into the habit of using the pinch method for everything but never have yet.Originally Posted by BavarianRob
Well everyone, have been flying for about four months thumbs only, just tried the old pinch menthod on Phoenix and oh my goodness, circuits are flatter and I feel like I have more control too.
Going to try with the mcpx outdoors tomorrow to see if it was just a fluke, but my advice, if you haven't tried 'the other way'
The man that has never crashed a heli has never flown a heli.
Lewis McIntosh
Tried the pinch method at the start too and couldn't get on with it but I am now officially converted! Can't believe something as simple can make such a difference!
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i use the pinch method but some of the best pilots in the world are thumb only...everyone to their own really !
I have tried the pinch but it feels unnatural
That's what happens when you play playstations 1 2&3 to the death
I think I'm thumbs4life
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Pinching in unatural to me, If i pinch i cannot move the sticks at all plus by pinching you have to hold the TX with fingers dangerously close to Thro hold & Idle up (no i wont reasign switches). I can reach maximum throw using the natural feeling thumb method. Bert Kammerer is thumb & Duncan Osbourn & Tareq. The only dissadvantage i have found with thumbs is i get interactions during some moves like elevator tic tocs so i just add a bit of expo & it sorts that out.
This is a very misleading thread title...
squeaky pete (18-04-2012)
its all about the thumbslol
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I use thumbs. I tried pinching and it was okay sat down at the sim but maybe my hands are too small for it standing up! I don't find any real flying differece with either, thumbs feels like less stress on my hangs though. I was a bit worried about learning with thumbs until I saw that Bert and Tareq both use thumbs. If it works for them I'll have no excuses really.
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