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[Fastbreak]

On 5/10/2023 at 8:42 PM, Fastbreak said:

Exactly this!

 

I dare to aver that it does not really matters how many rotors your heli has. Strictly speaking the crucial factor is your approach, your learning strategy (...) which is fundamental to master helicopter flying - for sure, it is very punishing. If i.e. you are going to fly a R/C helicopter without paying attention to the complex background theory ('the Heli tells you something'), practicing becomes a very short but expensive mistake. In a simulation -not an action game- these basic considerations might be a smart approach, too. 

You present everything in black colors. And on You Tube, all instructional videos look like the flight is a piece of cake.

 

Sorry, I was just going to express that, in my opinion, learning to fly a helicopter should be done in small, logical steps with regard to the best result. Roughly:

Step1:

1) familiarize yourself in theory with the fundametals of helicopter flying (forces, lift, stall, airflow effects  etc.pp. ) / here, too: aerodynamic features of coaxial helicopters 

2) translate the basic knowledge into practical situations (=flying the helicopter) by practicing starts, landinngs, hovering, autorotation etc.pp.

3) learning to read the helicopters movements and necessary control inputs and concomitant limits as well as to slowly experience the limits

4) trying conscious manoeuvre with the ability to intentionally violate the limits without crashing 

5) reacting automatically to the helicopter and mechanically proceding flight manouvre

6) build up a muscle memory and start flying subliminal as enabler for situational awareness  

Step2:

studying avionics, navigation, weapons, tactics of combat flying, weather,  etc. pp. 

Step3:

finally optimize/change the input devices* to refine your learnt flying skills

*Without doubt, you will be able to control your helicopter the best way, namely most precise, with the appropriate analogue input devices the extended cyclic control stick, the collective control stick and peddals. Furthermore, without any doubt, too, with high-costly and high-precise input devices, you will experience a much, much more precise handling of the helicopter - however, you have to be first able to master the helicopter to derive complete advantage from those input devices (IMHO).

Other way round, if someone is not willing to go through the complete learning phase, even with a normal sticks and paddels, which btw will not make anybody fail to become an excellent virtuel pilot, high-precise input devices will not make the pilot's job.  

 

Either way, I was not going to imply that you did it the wrong way or you were not able to fly a whirly wing!

My approach is: No sweet (piece of cake) without sweat. Nevertheless, the moment when you are able to sense every little movement of the heli the fist time, when you are able to control it 100% without errors, when you can fly 'unfeasible' manoevres without thinking about it, the moment tastes much much better than a piece of cake.

Edited May 21, 2023 by Fastbreak