jrice45516
Heliman
Location: SoCal
| jb,
the answer to your question is easy. You are applying slight forward cyclic to keep your heli in upright fast forward flight. By the time you roll upside down, that forward cyclic needs to have been changed to gentle aft cyclic but instead YOU are pulling the stick back too little too late or not at all. That is why you're losing your airspeed. You probably know this already.
In the roll, by the time the heli is knife edge, your right stick should have been pulled back to neutral from its initially slightly forward position, maybe even sooner, like as you enter the roll let off on the gentle forward pressure. For the completion of the roll to upright flight, reverse the above directions.
Break up the full roll into two maneuvers, a 180º roll to inverted & a 180º roll to upright. Practice your fore/aft cyclic timing until your airspeed does not decay in the two maneuvers. Later, put the two together for the 360º roll. After that, you can start the whole thing over again with tailfirst rolling. ;-) All of the above helped me with my rolling.
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