Foward Flight with a FP helicopter
08-22-2004, 08:56 PM
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Foward Flight with a FP helicopter
I am new to helicopters and I have a FEDA dragonfly and I am still working on hovering. But I had my brother fly my helicopter, who is a expirenced helicopter pilot, and he had a few problems getting the helicopter back to a hover after forward flight. I was wondering if any of you guys who have expirence with flying FP helis can give me some advice or pointers on the best way to transition back into a hover from forward flight. If anybody can help I would appreciate it. Thanks
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08-23-2004, 06:40 AM
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RE: Foward Flight with a FP helicopter
When he tried to transition from forward flight back to hover, he couldn't get it to stop. I wanted to keep flying forward. He is use to flying his raptor 60 and when you want to stop you can. I didn't know if there was a trick to help this problem, since we are both new to FP helis. Thanks
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08-23-2004, 06:54 AM
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RE: Foward Flight with a FP helicopter
I've never experienced any kind of problem where I had to stop. Maybe he was just unused to the electric fps. Granted they're a little slower on the uptake then a 60 size nitro. So the time between when you tell it to do something and when it does it is a little slow. Most of that is cuz of the servos they give us to use on the helis.
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RE: Foward Flight with a FP helicopter
That is what we figured, I guess you just have to be two steps ahead of what you want to do with the heli. Thanks for your replies.
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08-23-2004, 08:59 PM
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RE: Foward Flight with a FP helicopter
response time is a bit slower. pull back. throttle up. mine seems to get back into a hover with np. Also, if your batterys are getting low, you only have to pull back and throttle up does nothing. this makes it a bit trickyier.
