Learning to hover

Lesson objectives:
Start 'hopping' around to get feel for helicopter.
Controlled tail in hover.
Moving around in controlled fashion.
Controlled side on hover.
Higher altitude hovering.

The machine is all trimmed, tracked and ready to fly, now it's time for your first flying lesson!

Hovering is the most important flying skill to learn. You take off in a hover and you land in a hover. If you can't hover, there's no hope for you :).

The amount of time taken for people to learn to hover varies from person to person. Some people pick it up within a few flights, others never progress much past it. It's all up to you.

Now, you want to learn to hover, so strap the training gear back onto your helicopter and go through all the procedures you have to do (checking heli, getting your frequency, range checks etc) before flying. Now that all that's done, crank up the heli and carry it out to a designated hovering area that's obstacle free. Make sure you're not in the way of anyone, or anything and set your helicopter down on the ground.

How, make sure your transmitter aerial is fully extended and walk about five meters behind the helicopter. You always want to be behind the machine when you're learning, otherwise you will get disoriented.
Your first hops.

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