Taking Off With RC Helicopters: FAQs 102
By Jack Clarke
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FAQs 102 is organized in a question-answer format with frequently asked questions of the 45 degrees fixed-pitch micro helicopters and the 450 collective-pitch helicopters. To assure simple, straight forward, easy to understand answers, graphics will be displayed along with an advanced HEADS-UP warning system for incoming turbulence and possible confusion. Watch your head as we climb into one of the micro helis - they may be small but don't be deceived by their size, they are a giant step in acquiring the feel of a 450 sized helicopters. If this is your first time flying, the 450 may have a steeper climb rate than you expect, but whether your goals are zipping around in your living room or doing tic-tocs, funnels, and inverted flying, FAQs 102 is designed to help you follow a step-by-step progression to get you off the ground and in the air in the shortest time possible. Have a great flight training.
Muscle memory -
You practice like crazy - you progress - you regress - you progress. The more you try to hurry it, the slower it gets. Don't give up – you are making more progress than you think. Muscle memory is learning with you. Muscle memory is controlled by the sub-conscious mind but the sub-conscious mind doesn't give any hints how it is doing. It learns at its own rate and its own pace. You can't hurry it - but suddenly when you aren't looking - it will click! The question that students always ask - how much time does it take to learn how to fly? The answer is - as much as it needs, but with patience and practice it may well be the most rewarding learning you have ever taken off with. Pilots of full scale helicopters require hours and hours of professional training before they can solo. RC helicopter pilots often do their first solo with NO instruction. No wonder it is so difficult! Before flying - read the FAQs - it will not only save you countless crashes but countless dollars in replacement parts and countless hours of frustration. Have a great flight training.
captJac
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Taking Off With RC Helicopters - Jack Clarke
TAKING OFF WITH RC HELICOPTERS
- FAQs 102 -
captJac’s FAQs
Copyright Jack Clarke 2012
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FAQs 102 takes off where FAQs 101 left off and adds another 102 questions and answers - plus 17 more that snuck in at the end. It is written and organized like FAQs 101 but we'll be leaving the coaxials and basics in the hangar and heading over to where all the single-rotor fixed-pitch micros and collective- pitch 450's are parked. Our flight plan will start with orientation of the 45 degree rotor- head micro design and do some basic hovering, turns, and circuits, followed by climbing into a Trex-450 and becoming familiar with the controls of collective-pitch helicopters, the setup and adjustments, and some of the programming steps.
As an added feature and with the additional complexity of the 450 and CCPM, an advanced warning system HEADS-UP will be enabled to advise beginning pilots of rotor turbulence.
Have a great flight !!
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First Time Flying
Watch your head as we climb into one of the micro helis – they may be small but don't be fooled by their size, they are a giant step in acquiring the feel of a 450 sized helicopter. If this is your first time flying, micros may have a steeper climb rate than you think, but whether your goals are zipping around in your living room or doing tic-tocs, funnels, and inverted flying outside, FAQs 102 is designed to help you follow a step-by-step progression to get you off the ground and in the air in the shortest time possible.
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One Step at a Time
Learning to fly RC helicopters is really not that much different than learning to play a musical instrument or any skill that takes time and repetitive practice. You practice like crazy - you progress - then you regress - and progress. The more you try to hurry it, the slower it gets. Don't give up - you are making more progress than you think. Muscle memory is learning with you. Muscle memory is controlled by the sub- conscious mind but the sub-conscious mind doesn't give any hints how it is doing. It learns at its own rate and its own pace. You can't hurry it - but suddenly when you aren't looking - everything will click! The question that students always ask - how much time does it take for it to click? The answer is - as much as it needs. But when the demands are met it may well be the most rewarding clicking and learning you have ever taken off with.
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DEDICATION - To my loving wife and co-pilot - who without her never ending support and encouragement and patience and understanding this second book would still be in the hangar. And to the many students of my Phoenix Simulator Flight School who taught me more than I taught them - this writing is a testimony of their dedication, their patience, their endurance, of me.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Learning on Your own
Danger Rotating Blades
Single Rotor