Helicopter Flight Training

Written by Jim Ryan A simple path from hovering, to forward flight, to nose-in hovering How-to As seen in the December 2017 issue of Model Aviation. Budding helicopter pilots today have more training options than ever, but the basic learning process is still the same. After you wrap your head around the “pat-your-head and rub-your-stomach” challenge of basic hovering, the next tasks are to learn forward flight and nose-in hovering. When you master these basic skills, helicopters get to be a lot of fun. What I’d like to present here is a simple program to progress…