First Non-Crash Ending Flight!

I finally managed to completely use a fully charged lipo without one crash (i landed 3 times during that run all of them pretty good!). My flying control has improved quite a bit (i'm now just rubbish where before i was hopeless) recently and i have to attribute a lot of that to changing the way i hold the controls.

I had been flying with my thumbs on the tops of the sticks without even thinking about it. This method just comes naturally and seems the obvious way to hold the transmitter. Then i read a suggestion that holding the controls between thumb and forefinger results in better flying.

What i have noticed is this method encourages me to reduce the amount of control input i give and reduce the extent of that control when i give it. So when i reduce the amount of control i give the heli, it tends to hover more, rather than darting all over the place. It has all but eliminated my tendancy to over-correct.

I had been analysing the cause of each of my crashes and I had been attributing a lot of them to flying in too small a space, but now, i think for a lot of these the real root cause was my over-correcting.

Simple stuff, but it works. The only down side is holding the controller with my small fingers, balancing with my ring & middle fingers and controlling the sticks with thumb & forefingers is not a comfortable way to hold the controller. However, thanks to the SPAD (Simple Plastic Airplane Design) flying fraternity, we have a simple transmitter tray design to build which supports this method of controlling very well. And now i can't find a damned link to that transmitter tray i was impressed with! Oh well... at least this is something else to research.