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Here is part 1 of the DX6i How-To series. This is just a basic introduction to the radio.
In this section, you will find the first videos that I made on the DX6i. There are only 4 videos, as I thought no one was watching them lol. It turns out they were quite popular, so I ended up doing another series on them. But, I thought I would go ahead and post these up since people are still...
If you have gotten this far, then a big congrats to you. You can now fly your helicopter just about any way you want. I have gone about as far as I can in this “How To Fly†series, but you will bet this will not be the last one. This series is all about the “n00b†we all started out as...
Alright! Now you are officially an RC Helicopter pilot if you have gotten this far. You can fly a helicopter around and keep it in the air for a whole battery pack. So, what’s next? Your rotor blade has been flat this whole time. How about we get into some banked turns? Yeah, I thought that...
If you have made it this far, you are doing great. It’s time for a little reward. Let’s get into some forward flight. Up until now, you have been going in straight lines and coming back to the home box. Now it’s time to make some fluid movements while you are flying around. We will start...
This, in my opinion, is the hardest thing to learn how to do. You will want to practice this for a while on the sim before you try it on your helicopter. When you are hovering nose in, all of the controls on the cyclic are backwards. Forward will make the helicopter come towards you. Right...
If you are able to get your helicopter up into the air and hold a hover and move it around tail in, then you are doing great. It’s time to change it up a little bit. We are going to do a little side in hover. The thing to remember is when you push the stick forward, the heli is going to pitch...
You have gotten to where you can raise and lower the throttle and keep the tail pointed towards you. You can move the tail left and right and make it stop where you want it to stop. Great! Now it’s time to take your helicopter into the air for the first time. Set your helicopter on the box...
Now it’s time to start practicing keeping that tail in one spot. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? This is not only the hardest thing that I had to learn about a helicopter, but it’s also one of the most important. Unlike an airplane, you have to use the rudder in order to control a helicopter. So...
Are your hands shaking yet? I know mine were at this stage. The instruction I had was to spool it up and jump up to 3’ in the air. This is WRONG! If you do it, you will crash because the helicopter will end up surprising you and you will panic.
One of the most important things now is face...
Okay, we have your helicopter setup, you have gotten some practice on the sim, you have the perfect place to practice, now we need to setup the flying space. The best way I have ever found to learn how to control your helicopter is by box training. What is box training you ask? Box training is...
As I have learned how to fly, I have found that one surface is great while the other one is not so great. But, the not so great surface for learning how to hover is perfect for learning forward flight.
When you are first starting out learning how to fly, you will be doing a lot of scooting...
The next thing you need to do is make sure your blades are tracking correctly. When you look at the blades from the side, you should only see one blade. If you see two you need to adjust your tracking. Be sure to mark the blades so you can see the difference between the two so you know what one...
Wait, What? Sunglasses? Yup, that's right. This is a tool I never leave home without. If you ever fly and end up running the aircraft into the sun, you will lose it, quickly. But, let’s say that it's cloudy, only I still wear glasses as long as it's not dim. The glasses I wear are polarized...
The most important thing you can purchase besides the Flight Sim is training gear. When you were a kid you had training wheels on your bike. This helicopter is no different. Training gear will keep your helicopter from tipping over. If you panic and chop the throttle, you have a better chance of...
Okay, so you have practiced on the sim and think you are ready to go flying. Well, I would like to step back and do a couple things to your helicopter so that it will fly a little easier. If you panic and slam the stick down, it won't drop like a rock.
The first thing you will want to do is...
Okay, you have your helicopter and you are ready to fly, but realize you don't know how the helicopter will react once you get it in the air or even on liftoff. The most stressful time of flying for me is the maiden flight. And when you don't know how to anticipate something going wrong on the...
Hello everyone, for those of you that don’t know me, my name is Tony and I am the owner and founder of www.Rc-Help.com. I have been in the RC world since 1994 but I have only been flying for a couple years. During this time, I have tried to find every way I could to learn how to fly. I have...
Hey everyone. I thought that I would make up a list of everything that someone would need to get into the great hobby of flying R/C Helicopters. Electric, or Battery powered is far easier than nitro. With a nitro helicopter, the ambient temperature has very little effect on how it runs. But...
If there is one helicopter that taught me how to fly, not only upright, but inverted as well, it's this little guy right here! I had been trying for quite some time to fly inverted, and on April 18th, 2011, I did it for the first time with this helicopter. Now the ending was not that great...