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Old 13th Nov 2018, 09:58
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Bob Viking
 
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Thats more like it. Your post made me smile.

As an aside, I have had one hands on experience with flying a helicopter (Jetranger). It was from Old Sarum to Sywell and back via the heli lanes in London. Flying forwards was easy. Slowing down and even landing was fine. Bringing it to the hover was easy. Keeping it in the hover did not compute with my fixed wing brain.

For the 30 seconds that it wobbled around uncontrollably I couldn’t get my head around being stationary. The rudder pedals just added to the confusion.

I’m sure I would get the hang of it given practice but, for now, you have my utmost respect. And, yes, you guys do make it look easy. Or is it the autopilot that does that?!

BV🤭
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