arbilab
Feb 11, 2009, 01:04 AM
Only been doing this a month, and suck at video games to boot. Got an 'easy' heli, V4, but making it do anything graceful wasn't that easy. Pretty much limited to X-Y and keeping the tail facing me, drawing a big flat cross in the middle of a small room.
Recently discovered a helpful way to teach myself orientation and coordination, by making a shallow arc L & R (the room's wide dimension) and pointing the nose in the direction I'm moving, like a real craft would do in normal flight.
Start tail in, with the wide room dimension to the L & R. Yaw and roll slightly L, then neutralize those and do it R. Don't yaw far at first, likely to be disorienting. But you'll work up to 90 degrees pretty soon. At 90 degrees, the roll will be neutral and replaced by forward pitch.
It's not that hard, or I couldn't do it. It's fun to watch the bird do something graceful instead of lurching F/B/L/R.
Recently discovered a helpful way to teach myself orientation and coordination, by making a shallow arc L & R (the room's wide dimension) and pointing the nose in the direction I'm moving, like a real craft would do in normal flight.
Start tail in, with the wide room dimension to the L & R. Yaw and roll slightly L, then neutralize those and do it R. Don't yaw far at first, likely to be disorienting. But you'll work up to 90 degrees pretty soon. At 90 degrees, the roll will be neutral and replaced by forward pitch.
It's not that hard, or I couldn't do it. It's fun to watch the bird do something graceful instead of lurching F/B/L/R.