Gradually, you'll find yourself able to hold the helicopter longer and longer. When you get more confident, start decreasing the altitude and bringing it closer.

Figure Eights

How you say? Well, what you can do, is start doing more perfect circles on each side of the figure eight. As each side becomes more circular, as the helicopter passes over the middle point, the helicopter will be more and more nose-in to you. Start out doing normal figure eights as practised earlier, as you become more confident, steer the nose around so it becomes more nose-in to you.

See that the helicopter now moves around the the points instead of over them. After passing around each point, the helicopter crosses the landing pad, as you become more confident, gradually bring the nose around until it is eventually nose in.

Learning nose-in through figure eights is a little harder than the 'spin and hold' routine I used to learn. However, it teaches you better orientation as you fly the transition between tail in and nose-in. With the 'spin and hold' routine, you learn tail in and nose in, but nothing in between.

It's up to you which one you choose, but it is important to learn nose in, it will rapidly develop your flying abilities!

Circuits

Lesson objectives:
Move into forward flight and fast forward flight
Become used to handling helicopter at speed and altitude
Continue to develop orientation skills
You've got the basics under your belt by now, you can hover tail in, side on, and nose-in. It's about time you get started on flying some circuits.

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