Hope that you have been doing great with your RC helicopter flying course. Today we will fly our RC helicopter controlled slow circuit around a fixed position. Today’s exercise is for getting you more comfortable with tail rotor controls and getting you accustomed to handling your RC helicopter from left and right.
Remote control training gear is essential even today and same pre flight checks are required to be done which were conducted in earlier exercises. Platform should be grass and calm day is still a preference for today’s flight.
Place you RC heli into the wind, start it and place your position 12-15 feet away from it. Bring the RC helicopter at a hover of 4 feet from ground and turn its nose to the right slowly and start flying it in a clockwise direction around your position, while maintaining the distance of 12-15 feet between your heli and you. For the ease of handling you should keep facing the helicopter, turning with it as you would do while flying a line control plane. Keep flying your RC helicopter slowly as it should take 25-30 seconds in completing one circle around your position. Keeping it slow is also required to keep you from dizziness because of turning in circles.
If you feel that turning with RC helicopter is getting you disoriented, you can come sideways to the remote control heli and turn your face left so as to keep the RC helicopter within your eyesight. This way you will be able to regain your confidence and feel like almost flying the heli from behind. Fly your RC helicopter this way in clockwise direction and then give yourself and your RC helicopter a break.
Okay, enough break; do the same exercise in the counter clock direction, circuiting it to the left around you. You will have to hold in left tail rotor control to keep RC helicopter nose always pointing in the direction of flight i.e. circle. Doing the circuit to your right may feel more difficult to you as compared to left because doing it to the right requires more tail rotor to the right as compared to left circuit which requires very little left tail rotor for keeping the RC helicopter nose pointing into the direction of circular flight.
This phenomenon is experienced because the main rotor of the RC helicopter is most usually rotate in clockwise direction. This is why the torque generated from main rotor blades force the helicopter body to turn to left all the time and if the tail rotor is there to counter that torque. If you have counter clock main rotor, you would want to start this exercise from right hand side otherwise from the left hand side.
Now, you should keep practicing the clockwise and counter clockwise circuits around your fixed position. You will soon find that one of the directions becomes easier, only then you would want to switch to the other direction to practice it more. This the way you will make yourself more into the habit of getting over the fear of not trying the harder things in RC helicopter flying.
It is not experienced with all the people learning to fly RC helicopter that one circuit seems harder than the other one but if it happens to you like it with me, try to get the harder part done more so it doesn’t become your habit, like it is with me. For me rights are more comfortable than lefts and this habit of mine has grown firm so much with time that I am unable to get over it.
It will be a good idea if you practice your earlier circuit of RC Helicopter Training Figure of Eight Circuit exercise after getting enough of this one. But get cent percent comfortable before calling it a day for this one. These exercises are very important because the next lesson we are going to practice will be fast flights and large circuits and this will be the part where adrenaline will start to surge, which will in turn increases the risk of making some big damage to your RC Helicopter if you skip on necessary steps to take and make a mistake. This is why you must take as long as you want to get comfortable with earlier two lessons.
Happy Flying!
Tonja
Electric RC Helicopter or Gas RC Helicopter
Types of RC helicopters:
The question comes in novice pilots either to go for Electric RC Helicopter or Gas RC helicopter. Now that you are here reading this blog about RC helicopters, you must be an enthusiast looking for information about the hobby of rc helicopters, either a seasoned pilot or a novice looking for more and more information for the fun and exciting hobby; you have reached just the right place for your quest. RC helicopters with all the popularity surrounding them combine your imagination and skills and provide a fun time for people of all ages.
Since the topic of this post is types of rc helicopters, lets come to it and see what types of rc helicopters are there to explore in the market.
RC helicopters can be divided into two main categories which are electric powered rc helicopter and gas powered rc helicopter. First we will look at the electric powered rc helicopter and its sub categories and then we will move to the gas powered rc helicopter.
Electric RC Helicopter:
The advisable model for all novice rc enthusiasts is the electric rc helicopter. Why? The reason lays in its simplicity of working, usage and handling. The electric rc helicopters are far easier to work with than its counter part the gas rc helicopter. You are not required to deal with ever consuming gas and the engine which you will definitely tend to break especially during the initial period of your flying this machine. You are not required to have a know how of the mechanics of the engine involved in order to fix it when you break it as electric motor are more robust and perform well even after many drops of your rc helicopter from several feet on the ground. Electric rc helicopters come in (RTF) ready to fly models, you are not required to spend a life time in reading the manuals just to understand how it works. Just plug and play. You may have a mid set that electric rc helicopters do not fly for long as it’s the case in electric driven cars but you must change your perspective because modern electric rc helicopters come with lithium batteries which have the charge capacity well above the average fuel tank capacity of gas rc helicopters. Combined with brushless motors, now electric rc helicopters have very minimal current losses thus enabling electric rc helicopters fly longer than you think. One more advantage which electric rc helicopters have over the gas rc helicopters is the low noise level, electric rc helicopters have low db level of noise which makes them a no disturber of your neighbors compared to the gas rc helicopter which will make your neighbors call you to tell you for switching this terrible noise maker off.
Now take a look at the sub categories of electric rc helicopters. Those are:
Mini electric rc helicopter- This one is all the same in features of an average size electric rc helicopter except the size. As evident from the name that this electric rc helicopter is smaller in size hence called mini. The way to distinguish a mini electric rc helicopter from an average size is simple, the one which you can fly in your bed room or living room can be categorized as a mini electric rc helicopter. Mini electric rc helicopter are a real fun to fly, get the hang of it at first and you are good to go for all maneuvers this little wonder has to offer. The plus point of mini electric rc helicopter is that they are very affordable so you can start off with the flying machine without being too heavy on your pocket.
To your surprise, there is yet another kind which is smaller than the mini electric rc helicopter we have discussed above and that is ……… you are right, the micro electric rc helicopter. Why wonder? Haven’t you seen micro rc boat, micro rc car and micro rc airplane so why not micro electric rc helicopter. Though very little in size, only 8 inches max but micro electric rc helicopter has all the features of a standard electric rc helicopter. Made out of carbon and titanium, micro electric rc helicopter is tough so do not just look at its tiny size, this one is not at all delicate.
Moving on to..
Gas RC Helicopter:
You have read all the benefits of flying an electrical rc helicopter over gas powered rc helicopter and you must be wondering if the electrical rc helicopter has so many of advantages over the gas rc helicopter than why the heck gas rc helicopter is there in the market and who are the people who buy gas rc helicopter in the first place? Hang on, there are reasons why people buy gas rc helicopters and here are those: You are in the hobby of flying rc helicopters because you like flying real helicopters, right! And since that opportunity is not available to you so you are in the hobby of rc helicopter flying to get the feel of the real helicopter as much as you can. Gas rc helicopter takes you even closer to your dream of flying a real helicopter. Yes that’s right because gas rc helicopter has a mini size of gas engine what real helicopter has. It makes some what close to real sound of a helicopter, which makes gas rc helicopter more exciting to fly. Gas rc helicopters are more complicated which keep an enthusiast hobbyist addicted to it, the pilot not only flies the gas rc helicopter but remain involved with all the mechanics of the gas rc helicopter and this is what makes more seasoned rc helicopter flyers go for gas rc helicopters. Gas rc helicopters do not come cheap and only advanced flyers can handle them, that is why after having your hands cleaned on an electric rc helicopter who wouldn’t want to go for the advanced level of the flying despite it being costly but having all the return of money involved in it.
This makes me conclude this post for you as it is getting longer, so remember electric rc helicopter first and after having a taste of rc helicopter flying switch to gas rc helicopter.
Cheers
Tonja
The question comes in novice pilots either to go for Electric RC Helicopter or Gas RC helicopter. Now that you are here reading this blog about RC helicopters, you must be an enthusiast looking for information about the hobby of rc helicopters, either a seasoned pilot or a novice looking for more and more information for the fun and exciting hobby; you have reached just the right place for your quest. RC helicopters with all the popularity surrounding them combine your imagination and skills and provide a fun time for people of all ages.
Since the topic of this post is types of rc helicopters, lets come to it and see what types of rc helicopters are there to explore in the market.
RC helicopters can be divided into two main categories which are electric powered rc helicopter and gas powered rc helicopter. First we will look at the electric powered rc helicopter and its sub categories and then we will move to the gas powered rc helicopter.
Electric RC Helicopter:
The advisable model for all novice rc enthusiasts is the electric rc helicopter. Why? The reason lays in its simplicity of working, usage and handling. The electric rc helicopters are far easier to work with than its counter part the gas rc helicopter. You are not required to deal with ever consuming gas and the engine which you will definitely tend to break especially during the initial period of your flying this machine. You are not required to have a know how of the mechanics of the engine involved in order to fix it when you break it as electric motor are more robust and perform well even after many drops of your rc helicopter from several feet on the ground. Electric rc helicopters come in (RTF) ready to fly models, you are not required to spend a life time in reading the manuals just to understand how it works. Just plug and play. You may have a mid set that electric rc helicopters do not fly for long as it’s the case in electric driven cars but you must change your perspective because modern electric rc helicopters come with lithium batteries which have the charge capacity well above the average fuel tank capacity of gas rc helicopters. Combined with brushless motors, now electric rc helicopters have very minimal current losses thus enabling electric rc helicopters fly longer than you think. One more advantage which electric rc helicopters have over the gas rc helicopters is the low noise level, electric rc helicopters have low db level of noise which makes them a no disturber of your neighbors compared to the gas rc helicopter which will make your neighbors call you to tell you for switching this terrible noise maker off.
Now take a look at the sub categories of electric rc helicopters. Those are:
Mini electric rc helicopter- This one is all the same in features of an average size electric rc helicopter except the size. As evident from the name that this electric rc helicopter is smaller in size hence called mini. The way to distinguish a mini electric rc helicopter from an average size is simple, the one which you can fly in your bed room or living room can be categorized as a mini electric rc helicopter. Mini electric rc helicopter are a real fun to fly, get the hang of it at first and you are good to go for all maneuvers this little wonder has to offer. The plus point of mini electric rc helicopter is that they are very affordable so you can start off with the flying machine without being too heavy on your pocket.
To your surprise, there is yet another kind which is smaller than the mini electric rc helicopter we have discussed above and that is ……… you are right, the micro electric rc helicopter. Why wonder? Haven’t you seen micro rc boat, micro rc car and micro rc airplane so why not micro electric rc helicopter. Though very little in size, only 8 inches max but micro electric rc helicopter has all the features of a standard electric rc helicopter. Made out of carbon and titanium, micro electric rc helicopter is tough so do not just look at its tiny size, this one is not at all delicate.
Moving on to..
Gas RC Helicopter:
You have read all the benefits of flying an electrical rc helicopter over gas powered rc helicopter and you must be wondering if the electrical rc helicopter has so many of advantages over the gas rc helicopter than why the heck gas rc helicopter is there in the market and who are the people who buy gas rc helicopter in the first place? Hang on, there are reasons why people buy gas rc helicopters and here are those: You are in the hobby of flying rc helicopters because you like flying real helicopters, right! And since that opportunity is not available to you so you are in the hobby of rc helicopter flying to get the feel of the real helicopter as much as you can. Gas rc helicopter takes you even closer to your dream of flying a real helicopter. Yes that’s right because gas rc helicopter has a mini size of gas engine what real helicopter has. It makes some what close to real sound of a helicopter, which makes gas rc helicopter more exciting to fly. Gas rc helicopters are more complicated which keep an enthusiast hobbyist addicted to it, the pilot not only flies the gas rc helicopter but remain involved with all the mechanics of the gas rc helicopter and this is what makes more seasoned rc helicopter flyers go for gas rc helicopters. Gas rc helicopters do not come cheap and only advanced flyers can handle them, that is why after having your hands cleaned on an electric rc helicopter who wouldn’t want to go for the advanced level of the flying despite it being costly but having all the return of money involved in it.
This makes me conclude this post for you as it is getting longer, so remember electric rc helicopter first and after having a taste of rc helicopter flying switch to gas rc helicopter.
Cheers
Tonja
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