Making Very Sure...

[broncoholic7]

OK, I want to make very sure I have the controls going the right way this time. :D I do not want to retrain again, and be doing it wrong again. I hope you do not think of these as stupid questions but I want to be 100% sure this time! :lol:

Paul and Malorie were right, if I concentrate on the "nose" for turning, not the tail, (which most men stare/look at, :D Sorry bad joke :lol:) and think of it like a car, right and left, it makes sense. Still all over the place in hover but in forward flight, I am getting better. I really have to watch and concetrate but getting better.

All of you were right in saying it should not be as hard as I thought so Thank you all for, that!

Now... (Looking at the heli from behind)

When I set up/apply the "Airelon stick/control", the blades should lean right, when applied right and lean left, when applied left, correct?

Applying the "Elevator stick/control" Up leans the blades forward and Down leans them back, aagin from behind, correct?


I still have hard time hovering from behind. But, is there anything wrong with starting off/landing, in nose in or sides, in hovering? I will continue to train from behind.
I am curious/wondering why people tell you to train at all angles, until you can do nose in hover. But everyone I saw yesterday was doing it from behind, some were even coming out of the air into hover, landing it that way, the behind first.

Thanks

[MarkWebber]

Your cyclic is set up right. Glad you are doing well with the 'retraining'.

I think since most pilots are the most comfortable in tail-in flight, that's the way one chooses to land. Takeoff and landing is when your most vulnerable to dumb thumbs because of proximity to the ground.

[broncoholic7]

Alright! Whew! :D

Thanks Mark!

I will continue to practice learning to hover from behind, but I am really most comfortable on the sides and nose in. In forward flight I see and do well, when looking at it from behind, it is just in hover and takeoff/landing that I get messed up, not sure why, but I do.

I am not going worry or ponder it, as much as I did the Rudder control. I feel as long as others around me and I am safe and I am in control, then hovering it, from the sides or nose in, should be fine. Plus, I do not want to crash it!

Thanks again.