Holding your remote correctly. All thumbs or thumbs and indexes?

[gazmk2]

Weirdly I cannot fly at all without a neck strap!

[bell222]

Okay.
The choice is mine....
I naturally started all thumbs and no strap. I'll give the other way a go to see how it feels.
Thank you all for your input.

Lucas

[bcphill]

I have found you definitely need a strap. Just in case it slips out of your grasp if nothing else. I have had wasps and insects fly into my ear and you instinctively swat them away. if you dropped the TX with a big size heli flying about the results could be disastrous.

It is a matter of taste - i find thumbs on top and index finders in front of the sticks most comfortable the moment.

A few guys in our club have used the mounting brackets available for an FPV screen for offsetting the COG of the TX which seems like a good idea as the TYX lays more horizontal. And then there's trays to rest your hands on and all sorts of stuff to make it more comfortable.

Phill

[MK Mark]

I pinch and use a gay tray as well.

I can only think of one of the top boys who does this:



Eta. Does this make me very special?

[Milamber]

Been using a tray for more years than I like to think about, but, at 71, no 3D for me

[waveydavey]

I pinch and use a gay tray as well.

I can only think of one of the top boys who does this:



Eta. Does this make me very special?

Mark, nice photo of your style dude

[Mike Sanders]

at 71, no 3D for me

I thought I was the oldest on here at 67. No 3D for me yet but I live in hope!

[waveydavey]

Mike what was the crack with the VX1

[Mike Sanders]

what was the crack with the VX1

Angelos has tested it and it works perfectly. I have asked him to return it to me.

[waveydavey]

Now theres a surprise Must be the air in Milton Keynes and Northampton

[MK Mark]

Mark, nice photo of your style dude

I'm not sure what the camera man is looking at

[Euclid]

I'm a thumb man and I've only just realised that at all times my right index finger is hovering over the throttle hold switch. With thumb and forefinger on the sticks time to hit TH would take at least a millisecond longer!

[p4ddy]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_r7TfOq98k https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_r7TfOq98k

I pinch and use a gay tray as well.

I can only think of one of the top boys who does this:



Eta. Does this make me very special?

Ash does it Like that as well because he has arthritis or something so he can't hold it any length of time.

[_tj_]

I'm a thumb man and I've only just realised that at all times my right index finger is hovering over the throttle hold switch. With thumb and forefinger on the sticks time to hit TH would take at least a millisecond longer!

I use the pinch method.
For throttle hold I use the finger next to my little finger (whatever the medical name might be lol.)

So many variations, but whatever suits the pilot is the correct one.

[Pj1969]

Well this is interesting, I'm using thumbs at the moment, but and don't laugh, I've got small thumbs and when doing some menouvers, when I do tictocs I tend to roll or get out of shape quick as I recon I'm pulling the sticks as only got a short reach.Well this is my theory, I've tried shortening the sticks, but still happens, so I'm thinking about trying the pinch method, to see if it helips or if it's just me being a sh#t heli flyer?????