"plasticguy" wrote in message
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"Heli-Chair" wrote in message
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Just want to introduce my helicopter flight training device to the
group. It is something that I created to teach myself how to fly a
helicopter (which I sucessfully accomplished!) and now I have made a
business out of it. http://www.heli-chair.com

Kas


Nice RC Toy. It says volumes that you show the RC Chopper in the ONLY
attitude
that works correctly from the chair. If you hover "nose in" instead of
"nose out"
we both know that roll and pitch imputs appear to be reversed. Nose
forward
cyclic will bring the model towards you, not away. But we both know this.
As far as the capabilities of the models, many here won't believe how
manuverable they are.
This week I finally got inverted touchdown auto's to a 6 inch target disc
nailed.

Scott.

Basically true although, for the benefit of our 1:1 scales brothers and
sisters, he's not really doing an inverted touchdown from an autorotation.
Somewhere along the way, he's rolling or flipping back to a rightsideup
attitude "before" touchdown! ;-) Just thought I'd clarify that little
detail. There's bound to be someone out there that would take you a little
too literally.

As for the chair, it's a neat idea and it's one I wouldn't mind trying
although I'm not about to spend 2 G's on one. :-o I'm also a little leary
of flying the model from a seated position. As pointed out in their web
site, it's more than a little different from flying from the transmitter and
if the pilot screws up (or there's a radio problem (it's rare but does
happen from time to time)), he/she could find themselves with a model
heading right for them and it'll be a LOT harder to get out of the way when
sitting in that chair than it would be if you're already on your feet.

FWIW!

Fly Safe,
Steve R.