Demonstration Flight Recordings

[waveydavey]

Don't take this the wrong way, but your not going to get much from a Phoenix dem showing a hovering 8. Mark out the field with the guide in the A cert guidance notes and then, don't laugh walk round the route doing it twice, it will give you an idea of the speed. Examiners aren't looking to fail you but for competent control of the heli, they won't fail you if it's too fast just ask you to slow down. The secret is to listen to the examiner and do as he asks, yes you have to be competent and from what I've seen of your flying your well in control. Theres not many pilots take off with the control you showed on the recent video. Practice makes perfect, so many people rush into it without really considering that it is actually quite difficult to fly a hovering 8 and make it look nice.

[trillian]

Yeah, maybe so. I know how I want it to look anyway so if I shoot for higher standards than what is required it's still a good thing. I'm going to work on a perfect hovering 8 as the target, just for my own satisfaction, which is essentially two circles connected.

Thanks for the comment I felt my flying on Sunday was horrid. Partially due to not being comfortable either with or without gloves and partially due to my brain just not being very on-the-ball for some reason. The video was my first flight and was just to check the engine temp, (but none of my other flights were any better)

Don't take this the wrong way, but your not going to get much from a Phoenix dem showing a hovering 8. Mark out the field with the guide in the A cert guidance notes and then, don't laugh walk round the route doing it twice, it will give you an idea of the speed. Examiners aren't looking to fail you but for competent control of the heli, they won't fail you if it's too fast just ask you to slow down. The secret is to listen to the examiner and do as he asks, yes you have to be competent and from what I've seen of your flying your well in control. Theres not many pilots take off with the control you showed on the recent video. Practice makes perfect, so many people rush into it without really considering that it is actually quite difficult to fly a hovering 8 and make it look nice.

[sacko]

FAQ is a royal pain to use - its cumbersome and not very well developed by vbulletin tbh I think its a shame but I have plans this year to upgrade to this new version so it would be better to keep in the forums format to transpose across easier.

vBulletin Community Forum

No no no... Basically, create a new sub forum called FAQ.

All the FAQ's go in there, in a sticky at the top of that sub forum put some sort of index.

It works well.

[matt27]

on the same subject but a little bit off
do you think it would be worth phoenix considering to 'score' what ever your trying to do
for example
you click in a tab and then select 'score me'
you then select the move you would like to do (may it be hovering or chaos) then the software gives you a score out of say 100 and you try and improve this everytime
its not that easy to set up i know but it might be worth them looking into it as i think this would be very beneficial to beginners learning to hover and more experienced flyers trying to perfect a move

bit far fetched but just an idea?

depending on the responce i may e-mail them

[Stuart]

Can you imagine how many pc's get chucked out the window because the PC gives the user a poor score.....lol

[MartinH]

bolders get the dedi server going sonny jim.