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Good to hear you got it back down in one piece.
The best thing you could do IMO is to practice more with the basic four orientations for the time being, once you have really mastered these then circuits and figure 8's will be no problem since all they involve are those orientations.
The thing you want to avoid is really skipping the fundamentals in a rush to get to the more exciting things, it often doesnt end well, or at least causes problems later on with trying to learn more advanced things that rely on the basics.
Like with everything you have to learn to walk before you can learn to run, or at least run properly.
Edit: I was going to PM this, but others may benefit from it aswell.
Just some advice on how to approach side in and nose in....
If you are ok with side in, ignore this, but if not, it may help you to try hovering the heli side on while looking over your shoulder, this way the controls are all the same relative to the heli, and gradually as you get better you will find you are turning more and more to face the heli directly.
For nose in, there are a couple of tricks to get your head arround it....
1, Look at the tail while nose in.
2, Which ever way the heli drifts while nose in, push the cyclic in the same direction to correct the drift, if the heli comes towards you, pull the cyclic towards you, if it drifts to the right, push the cyclic stick to the right.
If learning from the ground up, it may be a good idea to put the training U/C back on, put the heli on the ground already in the nose in position, and then get it light on the U/C and get used to how it responds, gradually over a few flights you should be able to pick it up, hover it, and correct for drift.
If you get into any trouble, piro it round to tail in, or if you do use the training U/C if you are not too high (say 1ft) just reduce power and land it.
The best thing you could do IMO is to practice more with the basic four orientations for the time being, once you have really mastered these then circuits and figure 8's will be no problem since all they involve are those orientations.
The thing you want to avoid is really skipping the fundamentals in a rush to get to the more exciting things, it often doesnt end well, or at least causes problems later on with trying to learn more advanced things that rely on the basics.
Like with everything you have to learn to walk before you can learn to run, or at least run properly.
Edit: I was going to PM this, but others may benefit from it aswell.
Just some advice on how to approach side in and nose in....
If you are ok with side in, ignore this, but if not, it may help you to try hovering the heli side on while looking over your shoulder, this way the controls are all the same relative to the heli, and gradually as you get better you will find you are turning more and more to face the heli directly.
For nose in, there are a couple of tricks to get your head arround it....
1, Look at the tail while nose in.
2, Which ever way the heli drifts while nose in, push the cyclic in the same direction to correct the drift, if the heli comes towards you, pull the cyclic towards you, if it drifts to the right, push the cyclic stick to the right.
If learning from the ground up, it may be a good idea to put the training U/C back on, put the heli on the ground already in the nose in position, and then get it light on the U/C and get used to how it responds, gradually over a few flights you should be able to pick it up, hover it, and correct for drift.
If you get into any trouble, piro it round to tail in, or if you do use the training U/C if you are not too high (say 1ft) just reduce power and land it.
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