When it comes to learning to hover keep it simple.
1. Make it point - Use a reference in the middle distance and keep it between your feet (relatively), if it moves left push it back with your left foot, if it moves right push it back with your right foot.
2.Make it flat - With a relaxed but secure grip on the cyclic keep the horizon flat in front of you. Left to right for roll, forward and back for pitch. (which you know already) gently. Try to think as opposed to do. If you see the nose coming up (more blue than green) think forward etc. its usually enough to get the correction started.
3. Deal with height above the ground - Raise or lower collective smoothly to maintain or correct height.
The harder you try to hover the harder it is. Being relaxed is the key, as soon as you tense up you start to manipulate cyclic with your shoulder and everything becomes mechanical and jerky amplifying the secondary effects until it all falls to pieces in a sweaty frustrated mess. If you find you're getting back ache or a stiff neck, you're too tense, land, relax, deep breaths, wiggle your fingers and toes, go again. As has been said. Don't look down in front of you, look middle distance referencing close in for height.
Hovering tends to develop in stages. When you start you need a football field then only half. then a tennis court, then half. Once you're in half a tennis court you're pretty well there.
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Credit to Ascend Charlie ;-)
Last edited by Evil Twin; 29th Sep 2016 at 11:10.
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