Helischool - the virtual flightschool
Lesson 7 - Scenic flight - preliminary practice
Although we still have not practiced, the flying in the view from the front, it is still possible to attend the first scenic flight with the helicopter.
- vertical rise
- slanting fall
Basically you need to do some preliminary practice, which are useful in the subsequent flight:
In the height of 2-3 m you should be shortly practiced accelerate and deceleration.
Let the heli rise before us to a height of 5-6m and slowly decline again. Thereby never fly backward!
During the decline, move it a bit laterally, that the heli don't come down in capricious rotor-downdraft.
The rear shows at any time in our direction
Should the heli steeply be in the airborne, immediately work off these things:
- Reduce the pitch to 50%
- Turn the nose with yaw in the direction of the ground
- Take speed and increase the pitch
- Aligned the heli horizontally again.
This is true even in an extreme figure. Never thought to do a looping!!!
Prinicple: The heli must not fly backward, because it demanding an unknown reaction from us, under great heigh loss. True intercepted, it is one of the easiest exercises.
The above preliminary practice following background: The heli, especially the small-sized, tend to rebellion in speed drive. Thereby one have to counterbalance with a bit nod forward. Anyway, there is one or other unintended turn, especially in emergency braking.
Now come the aft
We stand with the helicopter above us in wind direction. The heli starts and increases in a nice ride forward to about 2m, where we also finish the steeply flight.
The helicopter flies to the left about 10-15m.
We rotate our bodies in the same direction as the helicopter nose.
The first curve is a right curve, we expect a slight rolling launch. A little yaw is one of them, because during a slow drive, the heli do not get his ass around by himself.
In every lean angle the heli loses altitude, so give a little pitch in the curve to compensate it and reduced it again at the end of the curve.
As soon as the heli engrave the right direction (you turn with yourself) take it with roll (left) horizontally again.
He flies slowly, but remains always in walking speed, because you regulate with his nose-height the speed.
Why get you so high! With the pitch you control the height. A heli in a directly drive gets a boost, also regulate with the pitch.. and get down to 2m.
He is now 10m right of us and with a left turn we want to changing his direction:
Easy roll to the left, assist with yaw. Wait until the heli is around and control against with roll.
After two rounds landing against the wind and relax before the next flight...
...and again: You controll the heli and not vice versa. He may not run away as a young dog. Set yourself a maximum movement area and stay in it!
The flown aft has a crucial advantage - in the curves you see the heli from the behind side. There are still moments of uncertainty, if the nose of the heli shows too much to you. But jast the aft flying training our brain and the motor function of the fingers.
If there is a critical situation, turn yourself immediately in the direction of flight, and everything is already agreed. Think about the flight time. At the first evidence of a flagging begin the landing approach. The hove-flight requires far more energy than you think!
After that flight, you are rightly proud as a peacock! You have contract a friendship with all control functions of the Helis!
- The heli rising too much: turn the rounds slowly
- During the flying straighten on give less pitch as in the curves
- The heli moves sideways in the curve: less roll
- Control the tail more
- If it's necessary, correct the height with pitch.
- If the curves are not true, rather square as a peel.
Do not go with lifted nose into the curve
Fly with larger radii. - Less leans the heli into the turn
- In the curve not increase
The heli comes to fast to me:
Full pitch and heave the nose, thereby avoid to the side and turn your body in flight direction.
Control the heli against the wind and let him tilt on 2-3 m height.
For now, go home and look to lesson 8



