liftedchevy01
12-18-2007, 10:31 PM
i fly my eflite blade cx in the house and have fun landing on the tv and then the coffee table, i hover over the dogs and have fun. i wanted the next step up so i bought the trex450se. this thing is so crazy high performance that its insane! the eflight is pretty self leveling and a joy to fly. i hover the trex and have major trouble just doing that. is there an in-between heli that will let me adjust to this easy to difficult flying???? ive had the trex for almost a year and seem to spend months fixing and seconds flying. i use the simulator but real life i cant do anything. . somebody have any type of suggestion or should i just stick with planes?!?!??!?!?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!? JON
JasonJ
12-19-2007, 02:07 PM
What sim do you have, and how do you use it? I went without a sim for the whole summer, and progressed slowy to hovering in all upright orientations. When I wanted to transition to forward flight crashing ensued. I quickly realized that I was going to spend a lot of money. I got the sim, realflight G3.5, after upgrading my computer. I have had the sim for about a month, and have used it every day. I quickly found it to be very close to the real thing, at least as far as hovering goes, as I didn't have anything else skill wise to compare it to. I downloaded the Trex 450 se v2 and found it to be very close to my RCT-450. I developed a plan, stuck to the plan, and have not deviated from that plan. The sim cannot be treated like a game. If it is, it is useless.
While the sim is not exactly like the real thing, it is realistic enough, if used properly, to engrain the basic control function to be able to go out and fly the real thing and get yourself out of trouble most of the time without thinking about it. As far as I am concerned, if you can't fly a maneuver on the sim without crashing, for as long as you want, you aren't ready to try it on the real thing. Altitude is also your friend, be it sim or real life. You have to get that thing up in the air, and you have to have a bail-out plan. My bail-out plan is hovering. Things get skanky, I go to a hover. If the helicopter gets away, I take it up, and give some input to determine orientation. I have found that flying it forward towards me is a lot easier than trying to fly it backwards torwards me. Once it is close enough I turn it to a side orientation and bring it to a hover, and go from there. If you don't establish a bail-out plan that involves a skill you have mastered, you get to buy parts.
Unfortunately, other than a little front yard action, I have not been able to do much real flying since the snow has hit, but I can say that the sim has removed a lot of my anxiety, and I have felt myself do things and react automatically, and it is due to the sim.
If you can't get yourself to accept the sim as more than a game, the sim will do you no good. Break out the credit card, you wil be crashing every time you want to try something new. You can tame the Trex with flybar weights, expo, things like that, but it will still be a lot more to handle than the coax. I thought a coax was the answer this summer, and it wasn't. The sim has been the best thing for me.
Just remember, altitude is the best thing. Get it up there, it gives you time to initiate your bail-out plan.
liftedchevy01
12-19-2007, 08:46 PM
i have the hangar 9 FS ONE sim. it seems good but i was told today that if im just on the couch havin a beer and playing, im relaxed, so when i go actually fly, maybe take a beer and relax and not be so scared to crash. i thought that sounded good. but now i like the hover, hover, hover tip, type thing you were saying. good to have a plan! thanks for the input buddy. or output, whatever it is. haha
JasonJ
12-19-2007, 10:48 PM
Perfect practice makes perfect. Try to fly the sim like you fly the real deal. Standing would be a pain, but at least sitting in an alert, upright posture makes a big difference (for me anyway). I actually use a neckstrap on mine and sit on the edge of my seat most of the time. Also, I have heard that the FS One helicopter flight physics are not as accurate as Phoenix or Realflight. Can't confirm that one for sure, but maybe someone else who has flown all the sims could give better input on that.