its coming to me.

[shy ted]

After many trips to the shop for blades new body and more lipos i am finally getting the hang of it, and almost maintaining a hover thats steadyish...(.CX2 )
However, when i go to the shop they seem to be demonstrating the blade to another prospective heli fan, and they can make it hold still as if it was on a piece of string suspended from the ceiling with no stick input at all. infact he looks away and chats to customers when he is doing it. where as my best is a very slow backward clockwise circle. am i expecting too much after a week or is there a set up technique that is eluding me.. i have balanced blades straightened flybars and tried every setting on the trims i can do but it still drifts, is it practice or set up..

[RcHeliwidow]

Practice makes perfect me dear

[Tim Procter]

am i expecting too much after a week

In a word yes..

Keep practicing for weeks and weeks and then think back to today when you posted this thread.

Nothing comes overnight, You will see a difference slowly then it will all click and away you go..

[Kwickkwack]

Just ask in the shop how long they have been flying, my guess is it will be years not weeks

[Boggy]

it'll creep up on you ted one day you'll be hovering and you'll think "hey! i can do this easy!!"

im still waiting

[Smoothound]

it'll creep up on you ted one day you'll be hovering and you'll think "hey! i can do this easy!!"

im still waiting

That is the weird thing about this game


It's so hard and then it just clicks and you think "Why did I struggle with this for so long?"

[quanter]

Just like riding a bike really then.
If only it were that easy!

Brian

[shy ted]

thanks folks for the responses, I shall practice and practice, i took the training booms off it today and wow, it really was a lot quicker and the battery lasted a lot longer.. and the panic didnt take over when it got near the roof and fans and blinds and cats..
and for the first time i used all four batteries and no new blades....hey hey..
this is very addictive.. are there any books worth regarding regarding the theory side of it all..

[andylinney]

getting shut of the training legs makes all of the difference so well done on that. As for the theory just have a little search on Google for heli flight dynamics and the theory of flight. There's hundreds of books on the subject but it depends just how deep into it you really want to go.

Keep practicing and enjoy it, the BCX2 is a cracking little machine that will get you up to speed in no time.

[LoBsTeR]

Funny thing is, I have a friend who has smashed his twister hawk so many times, I dont care to mention. He flies fixed wing and gave up. It took me a good few months to get to grips with my rather shoddy GT3 Apache, but he came over the other day and I flew it in my front room. I was half watching the F1 qualifying on TV whilst demonstrating. His words were 'wow that heli is so stable. Mine was nowhere as solid in the air as that!' He didn't realise the minute adjustments I was almost instinctively making on the sticks to keep it that way.

It's like learning to drive. You can pass your test, but can you really drive? Takes time.

[cambs flyer]

Same thing happened to me mate when I stripped her down to replace broken and bent parts, once the fear of doing it myself was gone everything else just fell into place nicely.

As for the precision flying, your be doing that in no time, I used to freak Clare out by keeping the tail touching the all and going up and down or main living room, and being near a wall sucks you into it, but your 95% there to being an ace, soon your be hovering her and making a cuppa at the same time.

Well done.

[quanter]

Re. Theory, try this
http://www.w3mh.co.uk/articles/articles.htm
Bottom of the page, the Colin Mills articles.

Brian

[scoobycolin]

Maybe the shop uses a very thin piece of string

[Midnight Sun]

Why don't you take yours to the shop and get them to test fly it. It'll prove either that a bit more practice is required by your good self or there is a slight trim problem maybe with your heli.
It is a real humbler when you see your heli behaving properley in the hands of an expert, also gives you confidence that it can be done...with your heli...on your settings etc etc.