TIME TO LEARN HOW TO FLY RC HELICOPTERS.Well – you made it! You are ready to learn how to fly RC helicopters. All the research deciding on your best RC helicopter , purchasing it, learning all about it, and building it has brought you to this stage. What an accomplishment! You should be proud of yourself - good job! As fun as that entire process was, now it gets really fun, after all, RC helicopters are built to fly. This is without doubt the most important section of this entire web site and I can't stress this next point enough. Over 50% of all single rotor hobby grade RC helicopters sold to and built by first time fliers end up crashing in the first few minutes of their maiden flight I have spent a great deal of time making sure I didn’t miss one point; after all, I want you to succeed at flying RC helicopters and pursue this wonderful hobby for a lifetime - I will help you be on the other end of that 50% - the successful end. Please take the time to read and understand every part, learning how to fly RC helicopters is a very methodical process that you can’t rush – if you do, you will crash. I should point out these lessons are geared towards people who are learning to fly quality single rotor hobby grade RC helicopters, not toy helicopters or micro coaxial RC helicopters . Toy and micro coaxial helis are easy to fly and you don’t really need a formal lesson plan. That said - first time fliers of these simple helis will get some useful advice out of parts of the lessons, so feel free study them. If you are intimidated by the complexity and cost of single rotor hobby grade helis, a micro coaxial is the perfect way to introduce yourself to this great hobby. The very first thing that you have to realize is you will not learn how to fly RC helicopters in one day – that is totally unrealistic and if you think that way, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Your number one main goal is to bring your helicopter home in one piece – each time you go out; this is very possible if you take small progressive steps. I have instructed a number of people how to fly RC helicopters. Almost every one of these people I taught never crashed once while learning to hover. The fact is if you set up your RC helicopter correctly , learn from the ground up, and don’t rush, you won’t crash either. I also never used a trainer cord / buddy box – every person learned on his/her own radio with me standing beside them giving instructions and advice – this is how I will teach you. It takes people several days or even weeks to learn how to hover and progress into forward flight. This is how I have arranged your RC helicopter flying lessons – I have broken them down into a 10 day course. Some day lessons will only take you minutes to master, most will take hours, and some could take days or even weeks. The number one thing to remember when learning how to fly RC helicopters is not to progress to the next day’s lesson plan until you are 100% comfortable and confident with the step you are currently learning. These day lessons shouldn’t be taken too literally. Some people catch on fast; others take more time – progress at your own speed. Do I need to say this one more time – don’t rush! So are you ready to start learning how to fly RC helicopters? Flight School is in! If you are practicing on a RC flight simulator too, that is great. Just remember to follow along with these same lesson plans on your simulator. This will make stick time on your real RC heli much more productive if you have practiced each lesson plan before hand on the simulator. Many of you will now want to progress to aerobatics, but you should learn one more skill first - the Autorotation. Even if you don’t want to learn aerobatics, you should know how to perform an autorotation to save your heli if the engine fails. Not sure what an auto rotation is... click here to find out. Good Luck With Your RC Helicopter Lessons! If you found this information useful, feel free to give it a "Thumbs Up" by clicking on the "Top 40 RC Sites" vote box below.
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