I admit I was skeptical, but I read JLS (thank you to Ye Olde Sky Gods for the imparted wisdom) and spent a good week visualising circuits and spot turns in strong winds.
A special thanks to Shawn Coyle and Wageslave for the heads-up to be a seagull. I enjoyed also the free admission to the cricket, and the chips .....
Went out today in a solid and gusty 15kts .... et voila, I have to admit you folks were right!
A humble thanks, what a huge difference from the mere hour (flying) ago that I put out my plaintive plea for wisdom. I would not have thought (from my past experience) that a few hours in bed/on a beanbag/in the car doing the "run through" would make such a difference in something so .... difficult/easy.
Now, tell me how I can afford my own one again (AS 350B3)? Do I just think really really hard?
(p.s. Euro rotors, and pedals and stick, and tongue .... the semi-opposite ... are beyond my comprehension just now - B407 anyone? - but my local visionaries tell me, again, "it's an attitude control, look out the window and fix it". I will channel JLS .......)