Nose-in hover

[GMONEY]

For those of you that are comfortable, How long did it take you to become comfortable hovering Nose-in? I can fly nose in pretty comfortably but when I am tryng to keep her in a hover I totaly pucker up.. I truly believe this a a mandatory skill to have and will continue to do my drills I just thought I would have become a little more confident..

Thanks
GMONEY

Not that it matters but I am getting a bigger bird real soon, after flying SACKMANS R90 over the weekend and going through all my drills WOW is all I can say. Maybe a trip to the hoby shop today to get that 50 will help? Bigger does fly better..

[Shawn K]

I've been saying that for years, but there's just no convincing some of those T-Rex people. :rolleyes:

Nose-in wasn't a big deal for me. I was doing it about a month after I first started flying, and I only dorked it once. Honestly, the hardest basic hovering orientation for me was right side-in upright . Left side upright was fine, and inverted left and right side came surprisigly easy for me, but right side in took me longer to get used to because of the tilt of the rotor disk. I always felt like the machine was going to come at me.

[bboy]

Remember altitude is your friend though I hover all other orientation 4 feet out eye level I have been hovering nose in about 10 feet out 10 feet up and doing well this way when I get messed up I have enough time to correct or come back to tail in but of course the other day I said watch this ill turn it around 4 foot high eye level with in an instant it was ground level ":D". You rock G.

[heli-cuzz]

I became comfy with nose-in the first attempt. I had been comforatable on the sim and applied it to the real thing. I flew straight in towards me and dropped the tail ever so slightly to lose my forward movement. Flattened out and .... Voila! I was in a nose-in hover. :D
GMONEY, once ya do it a few times it starts to become natural. I'm at a point now where I can fly around upright and inverted flips and rolls, hover inverted and such, yet still able to hold a conversation with someone without having to think about stick inputs.
We all start at a beginning point, once you learn the fundamentals, the rest becomes that much easier.

Don't buy a 90 until you're completely ready for it. You'll progress much faster on a fifty. This will teach you pitch management, parts are cheaper, less fuel consumption and the list goes on.
Remember, a 90sized heli will crash just as easy as a smaller heli. ;)

[ErichF]

Some folks learn different orientations in different orders from others. I have a guy at work just learning, and his preferred orientation is nose-in. It's what he started with, and is most comfy with.

When I learned inverted hovering, I started with tail in inverted...which is more akin to learning nose-in hover first, like my co-worker. I was just more comfortable with the method of entry (back flip from nose-in hover). Since tail in inverted is the same inputs as nose-in upright (except rudder), it was a natural transition.

In any case, this is where the sim really comes in handy.