Setting up Tx...

[HeliMix]

The standard rule for RC helis is if you push the left stick (collective I think it is called, stil learning it all) to the left it makes the nose yaw left and pushing it right - nose goes right. I am practicing this, but on my sim, I switched it once for I would frequently find myself doing the opposite and wondered if my brain would handle that easier.

After reversing it, I did find it is much easier for my brain to naturally control the heli. When I moved the stick to the right the tail goes right and the nose goes left and vice-versa. I think my brain naturally thinks about the tail rotor and not the nose when turning around.

Is there really anything wrong if I fly this way? Obviously, others would not be as suited for flying my heli (but to me it is like a GF, you want anyone else going for a ride? LOL)

Am I an absolute freak if I do this? Is it against any rc heli rules? I can learn the standard I am sure, but it is really natural to me the other way and requires virtually no thought at all.

[BarracudaHockey]

Some people do it but most of us fly as if we were sitting in the heli, stick (well really pedal) left = nose left.

It may cause you some agrivation when you are doing more than hovering. My advice, learn it the standardized way so you can get help and help others when needed.

[TheBum]

It may cause you some agrivation when you are doing more than hovering. My advice, learn it the standardized way so you can get help and help others when needed.
+1. If you reverse the rudder (left = tail left), when you're flying circuits and you want to make a right banking turn, you'll have to push the rudder left and the cyclic right. That doesn't sound terribly intuitive to me, although I've heard of some people doing it.

[HeliMix]

Bum, don't ask me why, but it is easier for me. First time I tried to do a banked turn on the sim it didn't go as I had hoped. Then I realized I had to do as you mentioned and it has been a natural thing since. In banked turns, the sticks move opposite of each other. Easy peasy. LOL

But Andy, you do make a good point as far as communicating with others and helping others (maybe some day I will know enough to be of help to others LOL).

[Skiddz]

IMO there's no "right" way to do this. Do it how you feel comfortable..

Think about it this way. Most folks play guitar in the normal fashion, but some have figured it out playing with their toes or on their lap and done a damn fine job of it:

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[LAMAR COOLEY]

Helimix
The discription of heli "rudder"control is called: " Flying the nose";left stick; tail goes right=nose left and right stick;tail goes left =nose right" or "Flying the tail"; left stick; tail goes left and right stick; tail goes right.
"Flying the nose" is how airplanes are flown. When flying an airplane if you want the nose to go left and you give left stick the rudder will move to the left when standing at the rear of the plane. There are those who fly the tail, just not that many. And it may cause problems for anyone who you may ask or allow to fly your heli. Especially if you do not inform them
of your set-up before hand. I believe the choice is yours. Just be aware of the potential
for disaster for any one not able or accustomed to flying the tail.
"Flying the nose" on my heli's took me some time at first because I tended to focus on the tail at first rather than the nose. So hang in there and focus on the nose and learn
this prefered technique, would be my advise.
Regards

[Uba Tracker]

As newbie my resource pool of advice is pretty shallow but here's a little tip that helped me. Like most (if not all) learning to fly (the nose) is challenging since its the tail that's sticking out pointing right at you, I found that if I visualised the heli as neither nose nor tail but but as an object that pivots around the main shaft then left stick is simply an anti-clockwise rotation and vice versa. Even nose in that same rule applies, as time went by I found myself thinking of the heli as just a main shaft and a canopy (nose) which naturally evolved to flying the nose.

cheers

Harry

[istandalone]

jeff healey is the MAN!!
i wonder, is there anyone out there that is legally blind that can fly a heli?

[HeliMix]

Jeff Healey is awesome as was Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn. More backwards players.

Thanks for all the great feedback folks. Should I keep my bassakwards set up and someone wants to fly my heli that I trust, I can always flip the input in my Tx I believe.

[koyote]

Some of us are jus' "bassackwards" I guess...:lolol:lolol

[HeliMix]

.tnemetats taht elbmeser I :wow2: