Sim wooooes!

[Dave Rand]

Just spent the last hour trying for the life of me to fly backwards, why oh why does my brain not workkkk BACKWARDS.




Going to sit in the corner and cry

[SLIPPERY STEVENS]

Hope your going to show me this on sunday.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dam74]

DRM, just keep practicising. While I can't do much in real life mostly due to nerves/adrenaline taking the best of me, I have just started to do nose-in hovers and landings in phoenix. I've also been trying to perform rolls and tumbles/loops without altitude gain/loss. Something I'd never even attempt in real life Actually I crash quite well in real life. With the weather so shit I think I'll be putting in heaps of sim time in an attempt to performing circuits. I'm going to print out the BMFA certification requirements so that I can prac them.

[p4ddy]

Backwards anti clockwise = sticks apart

Backwards clockwise = sticks together

Just don't over do it

[dam74]

Cheers p4ddy, it's just comitting it to memory that is the problem but I guess practice makes it habitual/second nature.

I've just started attempting doing circuits of the flying field in phoenix by using right cyclic + yaw. On top of that I've been going up and down the field with stalled turns. Mostly been using the Trex500 as I find it easier to control in phoenix then flying the Blade400.

[unwind-protect]

Backwards flight is probably the hardest thing I've managed to get the hang of.

It took me LOTS of sim time to get comfortable enough to do it in real life.

I started by hovering out a simple square: backwards, hover, turn, backwards, ad nauseam. The hovers let you regain your composure. Try to focus on the helicopter, imagining you're always hovering (just sometimes at speed), and that the path you're taking is a different part of your mind. Once you manage to separate out heading and direction, things become a lot easier!

Once you've got the hang of that, try sideways!

[Dannyyy]

well i've been on the sim all morning... My mate had the idea that you could do the "cha cha slide" dance with a heli... It works

[Dave Rand]

lol same here, all morning whilst at work lol, getting better its when the tail comes in towards me and i try and bring it round to the left. I WILL get the hang of it.
On the sim I can do loads more than in real life although I do get braver near pay day lol

[heliward0]

half and hour a day/night for a week should get you into rough backwards circuits,, keep at it buddy but DONT let yourself get too stressed with it and it will come, and dont forget you will have bad practice setions and bad ones just let the good ones rule!!!!

[dam74]

I feel like I'm making leaps and bounds in the sim
Does anybody else just go nuts at all in it and try stupid things like insane cyclic pitch/roll and try to recover?

I still need to get my hovering tight (it's a bit sloppy) and also be capable of doing it side on and nose in. Have been mostly bombing around doing oval circuits of the flying fields all day. Along with attempting forward/backwards tumbles on the spot, aswell as rolls.

Have been watching the lazy-8s and figure-8s in the sim and wondering are these fairly close to what is required for BMFA A certification? If not does anybody have a video of a BMFA A cert so that I can see what level of competency/control is required

My turning circle at the moment is way too much, plus I tend to either incease/decrease altitude and do end up loosing forward momentum at the start of the turn. Watching the demos of the fig8s they seem fairly tight and slow speed.