1. Basic Training Freestyle - A Master's Guide to 3D Flight Review

[@rchelicopter]

You can download the "Look inside" PDF directly from here. www.mikado-heli.de/shop/downloads/Freestyle_EN_Leseprobe.pdf

[@axelminet1095]

Hello, link not working

[@rchelicopter]

@@axelminet1095 It's still working from here. If you go to Mikado shop in English, search for "freestyle" or click on Literature, you should find the book details. Then click "Look inside".

[@RCCopterLove]

Thank you Richard for another great video! I have never been able to do such a perfect stationaty hover and such super clean hovering piroettes ! If it's the wind which is almost never taking a break at my field or the lack expierience I have, I can only guess! I love how clean and precise you are able to fly and your video is the proof that it's worth tp practice, practise , practise. You geive me again many inspirations to try on the field!

[@rchelicopter]

Glad to hear it. I got lucky that day with no wind, but yes, hovering is often more difficult because you have to control all the orientations so precisely all at the same time.

[@beastehful]

Fantastic idea for a video series. I see some commenters being put off by this being called "the basics". It's basic in the sense that these are the building blocks of 3D flight, it doesn't mean that you should be expected to learn all of this overnight. I practiced for hundreds of hours to get to this level

[@Captrez77]

Cheers mare, well made video as always 👍🏽.

[@rchelicopter]

Much appreciated.

[@daveuk5129]

After years of flying I'm now practicing the Pilot Proficiency Program you covered to hopefully further improve my orientations ,currently doing some of the hovering manoeuvres from vid 3 and fliping manoeuvers from vid 4.I find these are far from easy and fry my brain a bit with the concentration required.

[@rchelicopter]

That's fantastic. Depending on what you want to do, it is supposed to be difficult, and frying the brain in little bits is sometimes the way to go. Still fun though 😄

[@beastehful]

Brain frying is how we learn, you got this

[@rchelicopter]

How they've added Tailslide and Wall to Basic Training, I'll never understand 😄

[@HeliShed]

Excellent Richard - any chnace of sharing pitch curves please? all mine are linear -100 to +100 and I fail to believe this is ideal for steady hovering etc.

[@rchelicopter]

That would be way too sensitive for hovering, even at a low headspeed. I haven't measured the pitch but I change the curve so that the heli hovers at midstick. Lowstick would be just below zero so that the heli remains on the ground. And high would be less than normal. I keep it a straight line, so it doesn't have any weird acceleration at points. You want to be able to move the stick up and down slightly without seeing the model move. But then again you don't want it so dead that in windy conditions it's impossible to hold. It involves a lot of practice hovering, landing, taking off and playing with the curve to get a good middle ground.

[@freehamster]

@@rchelicopterso how do you set up your banks then? 1 for hover, 2 3d mid rpm, 3 3d high rpm?

[@rchelicopter]

@@freehamster Exactly. Hovering at 1400, 3D practice at 2040, and Hard 3D at 2140.

[@HeliShed]

@@rchelicopter - yep thats what i thought - which is why my heli is quite -'up n down' when in the hover - way too sensitive. I'm gonna change my normal to be far less 'twitchy'. I only fly in idle up 1 / 2 anyway and land with TH on Idle up 1 - TH has a shallower pitch curve for Negative by a ratio of 50%.

[@LichaelMewis]

Another excellent video. I just mastered inverted flight. Now I'm on backwards flight. Any tips as it's more difficult than I thought. I thought once I cracked inverted flight that would unlock the kingdom of everything this hobby has to offer. Was I wrong!

[@rchelicopter]

Thanks. Yeah, it's a bit mad. I thought the same, but those stages make you feel like a beginner again 😃

[@rchelicopter]

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[@PropplaneRC]

If that’s basic flying I’m not even a beginner with Helis. 😂

[@rchelicopter]

Yeah, the wall and tailslide seem a bit nuts 😄

[@elitecol69]

It's all pretty basic stuff to be honest.

[@leebates7574]

Yep some of them are not basic....well,not difficult but you need all of your orientations or itll go wrong quickly

[@ndiwww]

A lot harder with 450 size 😂

[@rchelicopter]

True, 700s seems to almost do it on their own 😄