What are circuits?

Circuits are simply roaring around the sky in a controlled fashion (well that's my definition anyway :)). It's really flying!
Before you can move on to stall turns, loops or rolls etc, you really want to be able to handle fast forward flight and be comfortable handling the helicopter from any orientation.

This is important just incase your loops/stall turns later on come out all curly and the helicopter starts heading off in some crazy direction (it definately happens!).

Some people may not think that circuits are a definative learning step. I think they are. Learning to be comfortable with flying the helicopter high and far away from you is something you need to learn.

How to do it
I learned to do circuits by just gradually flying the helicopter higher, further and faster. In no time I was whizzing around the sky at full noise and I felt like I was actually finally flying!
Just start doing figure eights and keep increasing their size until they're MASSIVE!
Aim of lesson
The aim of the lesson is to get used to looking at the machine as it's screaming around the sky at higher altitudes. This will give you the confidence to recover the heli from most orientations.
Learning Autorotations
Lesson objectives:
Autorotation setup
Mini Autos
Full autos
Points to remember
Autorotations are yet another one of those skills that you know you should learn, but seem to put off through fear of crashing while practising. I know this was true for me. I learned nose in, fast forward flight, stall turns, loops, rolls even became fairly skilled at inverted before deciding that it really was time to learn autorotations for real.

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