Nose In Drift

[diyman]

Hi all,
When i hover tail in i can hover steady.
The trims are all set o.k. so it doesn't drift.
I turn the nose in to hover and it starts to drift to my right.
I have to keep giving a touch of aileron to keep it steady.
If i rotate to tail in its rock steady.
Any ideas.

[marked23]

It's your trim:

If you trimmed it for a hover in the wind, no wonder that it's different when the wind hits it from another angle.

It's you:

The heli "hangs" leaning a little bit to the right (for 'normal' clockwise rotation) in a tail-in hover. Then you rotate it around and try to keep the same visual angle you learned in tail-in. When you turn nose-in, you tend to lean it the wrong way and it drifts to the right. Just keep with it and you will learn to stop the drift without thinking about it.

Think about leaning it over enough to actually make it drift to your left a bit. Right about there it will seem to stabilize and you can relax on the stick a bit.

-Mark

[flyinfool]

Your heli is always trying to drift to its left.
Because of this, you are subconsciously leaning the heli to its right.
Now when you turn it nose in, the heli still needs to be leaning to its right, but this is to your left.
What is happening is that you are trying to make the heli look the same as it did tail in which in reality will make the heli drift to your right.
Do not try to trim it out. The only thing that you need to do to correct this is burn more fuel.

[diyman]

Thanks for your replies.
I also noticed i had a natural tendency that when i rotated to nose in i would loose height.When i got home and had a try on the sim i looked at my thums on the controls(i know some people use their fingers but Ive tried that and cant get into it)and noticed as i move the stick right i would just lower the stick slightly.
I'm going to make sure i give a bit of forward on the left stick as i rotate it right next time.That should keep it at the same height unless it looses height due to something else.
I haven't tried rotating left for some reason.
To be honest I'm a bit nervous at the moment, I'm hovering nose in about a foot off the floor.I tried rotoating at about ten feet high but i started to panic a bit and chased it around the sky a bit before managing to control it.(Look good to anybody watching they must have thought wow he can really fly that thing,where in fact i was sweating a bit)
Its all in my head, as I'm good on the sim(inverted etc)but as soon as i do it for real the old heart starts beating faster.
The forward hover is becoming second nature where i don't have to think,I'm hoping the rest of it becomes like this.
Again thanks for your answers.