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Post by sgmason on Jun 22, 2012 14:04:50 GMT -4
As I get closer to that maiden flight more and more thoughts come to mind. The one I am pondering right now is training gear for my 600. I have more hours on my flight simm than I care to count, lets just say about 5-6 hours a day on average Then there is the 6-7 flights a day on average on my little 4 channel heli, most of them outdoors fighting the wind. So I think I pretty much have my orientation down. I do still have a bit of a problem with nose in hovering on the simm, but on the little heli I have zero problems in any direction, so I think it just may be a depth perception thing on the simm. Shadows just not being reproduced right and that sort of thing, I am just using Clearview too, so its not the greatest simm. I am still planning on getting some training gear, but is it really necessary for me to do all the sliding around on the ground that everyone says you must do?
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Post by Dr. Evil on Jun 22, 2012 18:26:02 GMT -4
As I get closer to that maiden flight more and more thoughts come to mind. The one I am pondering right now is training gear for my 600. I have more hours on my flight simm than I care to count, lets just say about 5-6 hours a day on average Then there is the 6-7 flights a day on average on my little 4 channel heli, most of them outdoors fighting the wind. So I think I pretty much have my orientation down. I do still have a bit of a problem with nose in hovering on the simm, but on the little heli I have zero problems in any direction, so I think it just may be a depth perception thing on the simm. Shadows just not being reproduced right and that sort of thing, I am just using Clearview too, so its not the greatest simm. I am still planning on getting some training gear, but is it really necessary for me to do all the sliding around on the ground that everyone says you must do? Is this your first CP heli? It's a bit different in feel than a 4 channel FP bird even in just basic hovering. The 6 channel CP helis tends to want to move around a bit more....not trying to scare you but just prepare you for whats to come. The training gear is a good idea but do you really need it...well, I can only speak for myself. I personally never use them but I guess it would of been a help now that I am looking back at the time when I first started. I started with a Erazor 450, my first ever CP heli. I learned alot on it, took me about 4 months to hover it tail in comfortably.
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Post by sgmason on Jun 22, 2012 18:39:17 GMT -4
I am definitely putting training gear on it, $16 is a low price to pay for a little security, but what about the skidding around on the ground that all these "professionals" say you need to do? As far as I can tell all that does is help learn orientation which I feel confident that I have down pat. Well inverted is a bit screwy but I don't intend to fly around inverted
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Post by Chris Reibert on Jun 22, 2012 18:51:37 GMT -4
Skating around is how I train my friends. It's working for my dad! The benefit of training gear is you can slam down pretty hard and the gear takes the abuse not the skids or bottom plate!
This was his first time and I put full faith in the training gear!
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Post by sgmason on Jun 22, 2012 19:41:43 GMT -4
Doesn't look like your dad is doing much skating around in that video My biggest problem with skating around on pavement is there is only one place in this little town that has a big enough and smooth enough parking lot, and it is only empty at night after 9pm and not that well lit . If I do like you father is in that video it opens up where I can fly/hover now that school is out. Yes even the school parking lots are too small and rough, this is only a town of 1400 and the only businesses in town have small gravel parking lots that are full of pot holes This is Iroquois, as you can see there aren't that many places to fly or practice in town. The red square is the parking lot for the towns row mall. The track in the middle, is in between the high school and public school and it is the standard 400m track, just to give perspective of the size of the town. That is the whole town including the golf course and air port, neither of which I am allowed to fly at. The air port/landing strip because of insurance issues, I would actually have to get a pilots license for real aircraft. The golf course wont even let you on the grounds in the winter let alone during the playing season. I have permission to fly at the high school, and it is fenced in with areas that would offer protection to anyone that decided to watch me fly. The track however, is gravel so no skidding around on it either. The other place I have to fly is at my brothers house, but it is a unused cow field and not any good for skidding around either. Even the closest flying club uses a farm field, and to fly there I am looking at $140 a year. $50 for the club membership and $90 for the MAAC membership. I do intend on joining both, but it wont be for another month or so when I cave the cash flow again If enough people here insist on skidding around on the ground I will do it, it just means walks to the mall parking lot at night. I live on the most easterly street in town. Skating around is how I train my friends. It's working for my dad! The benefit of training gear is you can slam down pretty hard and the gear takes the abuse not the skids or bottom plate! This was his first time and I put full faith in the training gear!
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Post by Valkman on Jun 22, 2012 20:00:53 GMT -4
If your at the training legs stage and are only trying to get used to hovering don't put too much negetive pitch on your heli. Have your lower pitch at say -2 or -3 until your past this stage. If you have say -5, and you slam your heli down you have the weight of the heli, plus the kenetic energy, plus the negitive pitch pushing down and the negitive pitch at -5 is about the same as the the weight of the heli so you more than likely will break something. This is only till you get by the hovering stage. Have fun!
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