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Remote Control Helicopter Flying Gives You Hours of Pleasure

Helicopters have often been called the most difficult of all remote control aircraft to fly but with a mini RC helicopter (AKA micro RC helicopter) that's no longer true, and even less so with a coaxial mini RC helicopter.

Single rotor copters have a main rotor and a tail rotor, while coaxials have 2 mains (and no tail rotor) placed one on top of the other, and blades that spin in opposite directions. This arrangement does a better job of canceling out the torque produced by the rotors, making the aircraft more stable than single rotors. Other design features also boost stability, so that coaxial minis are as easy to fly as most 2 channel toy helicopters, but with lots more agility. In addition to hovering, going right and left and up and down, they can go forwards and backwards (some toy helis can't) and even perform some complicated maneuvers, just like big single rotors.

If you, your child or grandchild have wanted to fly RC helicopters, it's never been easier to learn, or easier on the pocketbook, than right now. If children are flying, be sure to choose an age appropriate model and monitor them at all times. Be safe and you'll have tons of fun flying a mini RC helicopter!

Make your first helicopter an inexpensive one. Look for the lightweight, tough bodied choppers designed for withstanding hard landings. Look for a training model for your first time buy.

Learn controlled landing techniques for helicopter flying, and practice them until you build your skill level. One idea for the beginner is landing with a hopping method. As you come down use the main rotor speed control. Accelerate to slow down the decent, back off the speed to lower the craft, speed up again to slow the drop rate.

Keep speeding up and slowing down that way, coming a bit closer to the ground on each slow-down action, until you finally contact earth. Do this on a few flights, and you'll master the art of landing an RC helicopter in short time.

Practice is the key to expert piloting of remote control helicopters, and during that practice you'll likely crash a few times. Use the learning technique above, and you'll get the least amount of damage to your aircraft from those impacts.

Another thought is get a learning experience before you even send your helo into the air. Get yourself a flight simulator, and practice first on it. You'll get some virtual experience at piloting helicopters that way, and the simulator will teach you smooth landing control. My recommendation is a flight simulator that includes programs for both radio control helicopters and airplanes.

That way you learn to pilot all types of aircraft, and later have the opportunity for expanding your remote control avionics collection.

Many RC aircraft manufacturers provide basic flying lessons with their models too. I know most of us don't like following directions, but these instructions sweeten your flying experience.

Learn the remote control flying basics up front, and you'll have a whole lot fewer crash and burns.

Joseph Jackson provides information for learning and pleasure to help improve his reader's quality of life.

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