Re-read the instruction from those links I gave you.
By hovering I mean being able to control the heli and keep it close to you (10-20 feet) and in the air about 2-5 foot high.
Use the Training, helicopter scenery that has a field that looks like a small basketball court but with flags in the corners and a round heli pad in the middle.
It would be good if you could lift off, SLOWLY move the heli (in a hover) from flag to flag without crashing and the heli not getting outside the training area. Repeataly doing each flight with no landing and no crashing! Remember you have to land the heli after EACH hover, flight, hop, bounce, etc. Getting ot up in foward flight is easy. Getting it back down safetly is critical. You don't get any second chances on a bad landing :angry:.
Practice picking out where you want the heli to land and make sure you can get close to that when you land (without crashing).
Try this for fun, But only on the sim, jump the helli streight up, and then try to recover and land her. Also jab the stick to get her out of control and then make sure you can recover. That training would be a life saver. Just concentrate on getting her back to a hover 5-15 foot in the air and then causicouly land her. in real life this is when you colapse in a heap on the ground in a cold shacking sweat! Do this only on the sim
When you feel that you can do this in a safe enough mannor to chance it with the money you have invested in your real heli then you are ready for
trying your real heli in small 5-10 sec hovers and small hops
It's all about knowing the next step on the sim in case things going wrong, but only doing the things you KNOW you can handle with the heli.
The danger is getting over confident with the real heli and if it crashes it cost big time.
Believe me, the first couple of flight will be very draining. If you keep in mind what investment you have at stake you should be ok.
You sound close to trying the real helicopter with small short flights.
Do NOT try any foward flight with the real heli for quite some time. When you do a foward 10-20 foot movement at anything above a craw it will scare you to death. It will do things you (and me) are not ready for. TRANSITIONAL FLIGHT
John
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