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Don't give up. That's the normal story for every beginner. Exactly that happened to me and about everyone else I know. No matter what you know about flying airplanes, helicopters are totally different beasts in every respect.
Try it this way:
1) Get the right helicopter. Not a scale model. It's too expensive to repair and offers no advantages for a beginner except looking good. Get a trainer. At first glance you would probably take the smallest one you can find because it's cheaper and easier to repair. WRONG! Bad choice. The little guys have no mass and are very nervous. You have to be very quick and precise, exactly what a beginner has yet to learn. Better would be something like a T-Rex 550[^]. Yes, I know the price tag. I have one. It's really as nice and stable as a helicopter can get and has a lot to offer once you are ready for more advanced things.
2) Find an online course. They usually are organized into lessons which explain what you should do and exercises to practice. You have to learn how to stand before you can try to walk and to walk before you can run. That means mastering hovering before you can fly around and mastering flying around before you can try any stunts. That costs a lot of patience, but you must take one step after another or you are always in danger of losing control. It's like learning to play an instrument. You can't really play it until you don't have to think about how to play the next note anymore. With enough practice your fingers just do what you want.
3) Now, how will you get over the steep learning curve at the beginning without smashing a few helicopters? Get yourself a simulator. You can plug your remote control into the PC and use it to control a simulated helicopter. There you can fail as often as you like and it costs nothing. Just keep on practicing and one day it will suddently work. The simulators are a little sterile, but they are close enough to the real thing to really let you learn something.
Good luck. There really is no such thing as a born helicopter pilot.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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In consultation with this guy[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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X? Not so, my little insect - back up her topper! (6)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Bonnet ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done, you are up tomorrow.
X TEN
Not so NO
my little insect B
back up (reverse)
BONNET
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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That's how I got it but wasn't 100% sure it was right
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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No idea as yet but "MY Little Insect" sounds like a wonderful toy franchise!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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"Wasps'R'Us"!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well if I didn't, it'd be an onnet, and nobody wants that!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: an onnet, and nobody wants that!
My boss keeps telling me to 'get onnet!' I think he wants me to have one.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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You gotta love Garfield
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Today is reckoned as 24/7.
In case you have promised something to someone 24/7, then today is that day
modified 24-Jul-19 2:20am.
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Black queen and French crown (5)
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EBONY?
E = queen (Elizabeth)
BONY (Bonaparte) French emperor
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Beret
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Yup
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Do you get the guns too to fend off aggressive sheep ?
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Only if they are In the Navy
(Watch 'til the end)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Absolutely buy that!!
I bet it comes with it's own secret facility inside a volcano that rises out of the water when needed. That is where you will escape in your helicopter when Lady Bond comes after you.
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Then you can declare yourself to be a new country and install a radio station that plays rock music to the mainland folks.
Sounds like a plan to me!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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