What an amazing morning flying- found the balls and pushed myself :)

[alex]

I've been flying 5 months now and at times may have tried new things too early, but today was amazing- I've been putting a lot of Sim time in and also lots of orientation discipline, but also building up speed and getting my eye in.

It all came together today at the club- did my usual stall turns, fast forward flight etc, then pucked up the courage to make the jump!

My first real loop came together really smoothly and was a true loop rather than a flip
I tried more and gradually started experirmenting with different size loops, different fall out angles and orientations.

I was loving it, so decided to keep trying and went for a move I have practiced lots on the sim- a fast climb, pull back to inverted, then forwards flight inverted followed by an aileron roll out. It bloody worked )

I am so chuffed- the heli is still in one piece but my nerves are a bit shot :P The more time I spend doing this hobby, the more I learn it is about putting the time in on the basics, then getting the confidence to take a leap of faith and trust yourself

Hope everyone else managed to get some flying out of a vaiable weather weekend. Off to make cakes with my kids now- even more scary :P

Cheers

Alex

[trillian]

I've been flying 5 months now and at times may have tried new things too early, but today was amazing- I've been putting a lot of Sim time in and also lots of orientation discipline, but also building up speed and getting my eye in.

It all came together today at the club- did my usual stall turns, fast forward flight etc, then pucked up the courage to make the jump!

My first real loop came together really smoothly and was a true loop rather than a flip
I tried more and gradually started experirmenting with different size loops, different fall out angles and orientations.

I was loving it, so decided to keep trying and went for a move I have practiced lots on the sim- a fast climb, pull back to inverted, then forwards flight inverted followed by an aerilon roll out. It bloody worked )

I am so chuffed- the heli is still in one piece but my nerves are a bit shot :P The more time I spend doing this hobby, the more I learn it is about putting the time in on the basics, then getting the confidence to take a leap of faith and trust yourself

Yep, 'sounds familiar with my own experience as well. I was flying sorta OK and perhaps trying things a bit too soon last summer and then went back to the basics and now feel much better and more in control.

Once you know how to do a particular move the only thing between the sim and real life is knowing how fast or slow the real heli is going to react (that and nerves of course)

[alex]

Yep, 'sounds familiar with my own experience as well. I was flying sorta OK and perhaps trying things a bit too soon last summer and then went back to the basics and now feel much better and more in control.

Once you know how to do a particular move the only thing between the sim and real life is knowing how fast or slow the real heli is going to react (that and nerves of course)

lol- and also the fact you have to bend your neck in real life

[wildc4rd]

Was looking very nice mate, good work.

[chris jones2.4]

very nice!, in the words of borat.

was watching alot