Originally Posted by
Luther Sebastian
I concluded that the trick was to concentrate on not thinking about it.
have you ever had these days when the aircraft is just suspended in the air, hovering is dead still, attitude is rock steady, and you are just thinking I must be a god today.
Originally Posted by
CGameProgrammerr
an R44. That's much harder for a student to fly than a R22 because the controls are so extremely light and sensitive.
I can relate to that, its the combination of a light aircraft with light hydraulic assit together with the long rotor mast, that creates a pendulum positive loop on the cyclic, it tends to happen more when fully loaded in my case. On the AS350, you can adjust a bit of cyclic friction to erase that out, that helps. on the R44 create your own friction (forearm rubing on your leg).
Originally Posted by
CGameProgrammerr
An alternative, albeit not optimal, technique is to basically deliberately shake the cyclic back and forth a bit, which reduces lift but it can be easier for your brain to average out the inputs if your hand is constantly moving
yes I have seen it work on brand new student. its just dificult for the instructor to teach you that technic of deliberatly moving the cyclic arround, to later ask you to stop moving the cyclic arround.
one of the good advice I received that helped me back then was: do not think the cyclic in terms of displacement, think the cyclic in terms of pressure, and let your brain feed back the pressure between your hand and the stick, not the actual displacement of the stick.