Note
These lessons are meant to get you in control of your heli, not to wreck it or to freak out. You need to become relaxed when doing them. The final goal is to fly low at high angles and yet stay relaxed and in full controll. If you aren't relaxed you are doing them wrong.
Here's some Rock n Roll instruction vids...
These weren't made to show off of flash for you but to show you how I work into the RnR process..The orientations start out small and get larger in proportion to a drop in blood pressure..The fear level drops but the adrenaline meter bounces into the red..As the dead batteries increase so does the angle of attack..
Also...It's very worth noting how low the phone wires are over head and how many they're are...this creates a very low ceiling...Almost everything you'll see both day and night must remain around 6 feet off the deck and no more than 8 feet high..What you cant see is a loose phone wire dangling smack dab in the middle of the street and hanging down...The entire street area in no larger than 30 feet around... of which I use no more than 20 feet in diameter..This leaves me a flying field of no more than 20 feet by 10 foot high...so concentration must remain extremely focused..I consider this a good thing NOT BAD...When I move to the field it's like someone knocked down all the walls...
RnR1 contains...
(1)Hard roll or aileron movements with quick recovery..This looks more like a glitch than something intentional and is hardly noticeable.
(2) Then small and smooth side to side rocking without stopping to hover.
(3)Medium sideways slides around 8 feet to hard recovery.
(4)Larger slides...Harder recoveries
(5)Rocking Nose Up Both right and left orientations
(6)Backward Nose Up slides from hover
These stick movements not only instill confidence and knowledge of the abilities of your flying machine but they create a freedom in larger flying fields that result in very smooth movements..
Video 1
RnR2...
(1)Twenty foot slides 10 to 15ft out away from me.
(2) Larger nose ups and slides
(3) 20ft circuits
Video 2
RnR3...Looks like a copy of RnR2?????? should be an example of very small circuits??? guess I need to talk to the producer?
Video 3
Night Flying is basically RnR in freestyle...after your in the groove and relaxed just let down a little and let it flow...
What you'll see in this clip is flying under one street light and remaining in a space no larger than a 20ft in a lighted area (and staying around six feet off the deck).. ( no higher than 8ft)...
Although this might not seem that tough look close and you'll see the blades in some of the oval circuits at maxium angle within inches of the asphalt...the ovals are slow and smooth..
(2) Slow Pirouettes...tuff in the dark close in!!..
(3) ten foot figure 8's...(Yeah Baby)
(4) nose ups with the tail in some cases 6 inches off the deck and moving backwards...
Night flying video
Disclaimer....the crappy quality is due to using my own video camera and my limited camera skills.....Ya lousey Bums!!
Also this is NOT the quality of my flight lesson videos which was shot by a legit Video Company....( still in mix at the present.)
I hope this may cause a little more interest in the RnR process...I just can't say enough how valuable they are in taking you to new levels of flying and confidence...Also I hope you got something out of this because I had better things to do on my birthday than type!.....
God Bless, Radd
