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Beginners Corner > I Just don't get it?????
 
 
GroundMagnet
Senior Heliman
Location: St Louis

Well I will agree there’s nothing like real stick time. I’d also say when you can’t get real stick time there’s nothing like SIM time to help.
06-16-2008 10:18 AM
 
 
Papa Sal
Senior Heliman
Location: Reno, Nevada- USA

o.k, o.k, I......like my sim, but I LOVE my wife...er....Heli

Ahhhhh Master Card...."priceless"!
06-17-2008 08:23 PM
 
 
gadgetdude
Senior Heliman
Location: Southern California

One thing that helped me make the sim a little more like real life is make sure you increase the WIND. Take it up to around 10MPH. It makes it a little more unpredictable such as really flying. I have yet to fly one day in real life without the breeze blowing.

my Boss is a Rat...literally!
06-17-2008 08:37 PM
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heliman79
Senior Heliman
Location: loxley, alabama united states

yeah tell me about it, the wind is constantly gusting around here

damn, that was close!
06-18-2008 01:31 AM
 
 
RadioFlyerMk
Senior Heliman
Location: Trenton, Ohio,

I find that the nervous knee knocking factor is a huge flaw in my skills when flying. How do you over come that? Practice. Just towards the end of last season is when I was flying and doing my moves without feeling like a tank was causing the ground to shudder right behind me. So I was more comfortable. Then I tried something new and the shaking came back. I was getting upset because I was saying, man, I know I can do this, but I am so nervous that I cannot finish it. So, I now try to do it a little at a time, and each time the nerves calm just a little more. So, try your move, if you get nervous move into something your totally comfortable with until the nerves calm down. If that doesn't work, land, nothing says you have fly to fly a full tank of fuel. Thats my best advice for fighting the nerves, god knows I have abused my nervous system enough!

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"I'd rather hover a Heli......than fly a plane"
06-18-2008 02:07 AM
 
 
billm
Key Veteran
Location: Liberty Lake, WA

I remember when I first was learning to control the beast.
My eyes would get dry from not blinking.
I would stand like I was statue.
My shaking hands would just be a mess after a flight.
It was great when the ship came home without a crash and all I did was hover!
I have had many a crash. I had one last week when I was trying a inverted piro rainbow.
I don't have the jitters when I fly at the local field.
I have to tell ya. It's like I never flown every time I show up for a comp and have to dance before the nats guys.
The rush is cool and I'm working on my own 12 step program.

My name is Billm. Cough, and I'm a Heli Holic
06-18-2008 02:42 AM
 
 
Papa Sal
Senior Heliman
Location: Reno, Nevada- USA

Thanks Guyzzzz An inverted prio rainbow????? I,m shaking just thinking about that! Of course getting OLD dosen't help the SHAKE factor I like the idea to just start flying RELAX then try that new move.........very high in the air, probably inverted anyway

Ahhhhh Master Card...."priceless"!
06-18-2008 06:19 PM
 
 
Way2slow
Veteran
Location: Jeffersonville Ga

Sims work great if done properly

This is a reply I just made on another post.

My son visited a few months ago, played with my sim a couple of hours and I let him hover my 450's some. He got the bug and bought him a Blade 400 and a sim when he got back home. Crashed the Blade the first night he tried to hover it and couldn't get it to fly again so he just practiced on the Sim for the past couple of months.

He came to visit last week and brought the Blade and a used TRex 600N Pro he just bought for me to get them flying. We went to the field sunday and after hovering the Blade for a few minutes, he started flying figure eights. Later we got the 600N setup and he was flying figure eights with it. He could only make a couple and would have to land it to let his hands quit shaking where the was so nervous but after several flights he was flying a whole tank without stopping. This was his first time actually flying a real heli other than the few minutes he played with the Blade when he first got it and my heli's when he was visiting before.

The is no way on gods green earth he could have picked up a radio, hovered a heli a few minutes to get the feel and took off into forward flight without the months of sim time he put in. So, don't under estimate the value of a good sim. Provided you use it as tool and not a game.
06-18-2008 10:33 PM
 
 
speeddemon370
Veteran
Location: Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada

Well put way2. I have a similar story but I'm not going to bother going into details. Point is, sims rock and if it weren't for them there would be many of us that couldn't fly at all. Or we would have given up long ago.

Nobody's claiming it to be a substitute for real stick time. But it does have it's place and imo will make almost anyone a better pilot.

with 2 ears and 1 mouth you should listen twice as much as you talk
06-19-2008 04:52 AM
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Papa Sal
Senior Heliman
Location: Reno, Nevada- USA

o.k,o.k.....i LOVE my sim, and like my wife....er heli OH and this morning I kicked up the wind, turbulence,and gust.......WHOA What-a-rush. a lot of money in the jar!!! I just may get my real heli back up sooner.

Ahhhhh Master Card...."priceless"!
06-19-2008 09:36 PM
 
 
povern
Senior Heliman
Location: LF, MN

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o.k,o.k.....i LOVE my sim, and like my wife....er heli OH and this morning I kicked up the wind, turbulence,and gust.......WHOA What-a-rush. a lot of money in the jar!!! I just may get my real heli back up sooner.

Papa Sal, Now turn the physis up to 120, that with the wind and it will rock your world....

povern

They make parts for a reason. Keeps the industry alive and get that adreneline pumping!
06-19-2008 10:00 PM
 
 
Papa Sal
Senior Heliman
Location: Reno, Nevada- USA

No, no, no!!!! OK

Ahhhhh Master Card...."priceless"!
06-19-2008 10:55 PM
 
 
Matt Smith
Heliman
Location: Newton, NJ

I take my simulator as seriously as I can, I have some wind on, and still, it's nothing like real life flying. On the sim, I just don't get nervous. In real life, I do. In real life, when things don't got EXACTLY as it seems the should, my brain shuts down and stops telling my fingers what to do, so all I can practically do is default to tail-in and recover a steady hover. On the sim, I can recover from most mishaps without losing my orientation. I think that pretty simply, the problem is that on the computer, I'm not dealing with a 2,000rpm flying ginsu knife that might attack me or someone else if I lose it, and that fear starts to take over in real-life flying!
06-20-2008 03:49 PM
 
 
Papa Sal
Senior Heliman
Location: Reno, Nevada- USA

THAT'S IT... FEAR

Ahhhhh Master Card...."priceless"!
06-20-2008 07:42 PM
 
 
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