Great 1st Hover Advise

If you don't have any help and want to learn hover without damage, follow these instructions which I read somewhere...It worked wonders for me:

Buy a 6x6 wood board or any kind of material heavier than what your heli can lift. Tie 4 ropes (about 1 ft each works) to each end of your training gear, the other end, tie them to the board (works better if you drill holes in the board). All 4 ropes must be perpendicular to the board and to the training gear. Once you have this set up, lift your chopper around with your hands and make sure that there's no way the blades will hit the board (either make ropes shorter or longer...it depends on your heli). Now, yo can practice hovering. The catch is to try and hover 1ft off the ground without stretching the ropes fully....I spent 2 tanks doing this and made hovering freely a lot easier and CHEAPER!!!!! If you loose control when you're tied up, just ease off your pitch/throttle and the thing will land perfectly...it's as easy as that...just be careful because the tail rotor is the only thing that can touch the ground and you don't want that.

I hope it works for you!

For a cheap set of training gear all you need is two dow rods
and a hula hoop. mount the two dow rods on the hoop and
strap your skids down and your ready to go

[echobot]

I'm using two 3ft doll rods and four tennis balls.

The tennis balls seem to cusion the hard landings that I'm making.

Ed