The First in 3D Flying

[scalefreak]

Yep! I came....I saw....I conquered!

What was the first 3D maneuver you learned on a bone?

Mine was a half @$$ tick tock.... :D

[Sleepyc]

Mine....

TBD.

:D

[FredyC]

the first maneuver i learned was a forward flip

[adarsh007]

For me it was the Back flip. No no no....... My first was I was trying to do a loop and it turned out to be a back flip!!!!!:D

[Ramz]

My first 3D maneuver was a backward flip as well. After that, it was a chaos on the deck...switching directions every 6 seconds. :)

[CSpaced]

Back flips for me I think....

[Piranha]

It was a roll just the other day.

[brian94066]

death slide

by accident:D

[Jonathan Ott]

:rolleyes: Does hovering count?

[AndyJewell]

A dissapointing circuit which turned out to be funnel :D

[toro]

A dissapointing circuit which turned out to be funnel :D


I remember doing those .... nose down over correction of the tail ! SWweeett... Mine was inverted hover at 100'

[Br3tt]

Backflip

[flightcrazed]

I'll let you know!! LOL, not quite there yet, but give me time!

[Rush7]

I can make the tail fly around in a circle really fast........lol

[CSpaced]

I can make the tail fly around in a circle really fast........lol

Been there! Had my gyro come out of the receiver one time :eek:

[scalefreak]

Been there! Had my gyro come out of the receiver one time :eek:

AWESOME! I had a 401 that decided to stop doing it's thing while in a full bore turn and it went pretty well from there. A few hundred bucks later and I was back in business...momentarily. :rolleyes:

[CSpaced]

AWESOME! I had a 401 that decided to stop doing it's thing while in a full bore turn and it went pretty well from there. A few hundred bucks later and I was back in business...momentarily. :rolleyes:

I've also had the tail P/R snap at the servo ball link.....managed to save that one though :cool:

[ericb]

Inverted hover I think. I was so high up I am not quite sure, and I still left a mark in my underoos.

[Gmoney]

Hovering an Airplane! Old School baby!

[flightcrazed]

Hovering an Airplane! Old School baby!

HEY!! I didn't know we could go there!! DITTO! :D

[Junkpilot]

Landing! My first attempt at flying a heli was fueled by the knowledge that I was already a good airplane pilot! How hard could it be?
Junkpilot

[xtremeRCpilot]

Pirouettes !!!!!! NO, Just kidding !!! ;)

[scalefreak]

Landing! My first attempt at flying a heli was fueled by the knowledge that I was already a good airplane pilot! How hard could it be?
Junkpilot


LMAO....I recently did a really low touch and go with my 600e. Low enough that I ripped the left skid off and the bone kept on truckin...

the landing cost me some blade, though..:o

[rascal2]

Back flip, back flip, half a back flip.........hobby store for parts.

[buzzsaw]

Tic'y Toc'y:D

[MrRPM]

Loop, roll, back flip... it's fun to be able to do much more than that now!

[Technex]

Right roll in FF.

I remember that day, was amazing :).

[EricW]

half a year ago...
A back-flip followed by a unintended long inverted hover and finally came out of it with a somekind of inverted pirouette thingy.
It was far away by then and somehow i flew it back and landed.
Dry mouth, shaking, and was speechless for at least an hour.
A six pack solved the symptoms. :D

[InvictaRocks]

Mine was a loop. It was my dream for months after graduating from a Lama to the HBK2. That was possibly the most exciting day of heli flying ever. Well, maybe the first outside loop.... Well, actually, it was the first 900 stall turn. No no no, it was the first multiple stationary rolls. Ok, maybe first low inverted hover. Nah, it's gotta be the first loop.

:D

[flyordie]

half a year ago...
A back-flip followed by a unintended long inverted hover and finally came out of it with a somekind of inverted pirouette thingy.
It was far away by then and somehow i flew it back and landed.
Dry mouth, shaking, and was speechless for at least an hour.
A six pack solved the symptoms. :D
great stuff!!!rt there

[NeoGohd]

My first maneuver was a CRASH!!!!!

[nexgen]

My first 3D maneuver was a (sloppy) back flip, then on to a couple barrel rolls. Just yesterday actually. Before that it was plain old FFF, stall turns, 540 stall turns, and piro's.

[Swashbuckler]

A couple of right rolls from forward flight, with my wife looking on in amazment. Then a "crack hover" to landing...until the "crack shaking" left my hands! After recovery I went back up and performed some loops and stall turns. Repeat landing to catch breath. :eek:

[John 3D]

My first 3D maneuver was hovering an airplane. Nowadays I can fly an airplane around like a heli. People will actually say "he flies the plane like a helicopter" while I'm flying. I found that hovering an airplane in Mode 2 is the same thing as hovering a heli in Mode 1. But I always fly in Mode 2. My first 3D heli maneuver was side flips which led onto back flips. I created my own maneuver out of a set of flips. It kind of looks like a strange piroflip. Its just forward flip, right side flip, back flip, left side flip, forward flip. Or the other way around.

[Heli FU]

540 stall turns, was my first.
Then came inverted loops, and so on!

[Sky_Dancer]

If I'm ever financially able to stay in the hobby long enough, I'll let ya know. I've already exited it two times and this is my third go round. Can't learn much that way!

[Ken]

back flip, rolls, forward flip, etc.

[jairoblaster]

I first learned to hover a airplane, then moved on to the heli world, Ide say the first real 3-D manuver that I done was the inverted horney whale with a half twist. It started out as a verry large loop and some how turned in to that, by the way I reserve the right to sue anyone that trys to copy my move, Haa Any way It was something else and lucky it did not end up in the dirt.

[CSpaced]

I first learned to hover a airplane, then moved on to the heli world, Ide say the first real 3-D manuver that I done was the inverted horney whale with a half twist. It started out as a verry large loop and some how turned in to that, by the way I reserve the right to sue anyone that trys to copy my move, Haa Any way It was something else and lucky it did not end up in the dirt.

Thats funny right there :D :D I wanna learn the inverted horney whale with a half twist!

[3D-Seth]

I haven't gotten my heli setup for 3D yet, but the first thing I did was the loop (with no negative pitch, and no idle up mode!) Just flying forward full bore and pull back and hope it misses the ground....fun stuff. I really need to get it set up for 3D stuff though...urg

Seth

[aaronredbaron]

My first 3D maneuver, if its fair to call it that, was a loop with my fixed pitch LMH 116! Those things were so much fun to beat the crap out of! The blades will fold up on impact to prevent damage, but we found if you bang on it hard enough, you can get them to fold up in flight; a dive with a sharp pullout would usually do it. Recovery involved hitting the throttle and crossing your fingers. 9 times out of 10 the blades would fling back out and snap back in place, or it would do a terminal velocity dive into the ground. However, crashes almost always resulted in a cracked canopy and a bounce, with little other damage. I'd like to see any other heli that can fold the blades up (vertically, mind you, not just folded back) in flight and then get them back down and get the heli on the ground. Those silly things flew about as locked in as an escaped inmate, but they were sure tough as hell!

[stanradzikowski]

roll for me

[HeliHoverAP]

A front flip for me. All though I did pull off a loop with a fixed pitch sabre running on a 3 cell. The second attempt resulted in a full speed nose dive into the dirt. :blockhead:

[jones007]

Soooo, what are people calling 3D maneuvers? When I learned to fly back in the late 70s, helicopter aerobatics were pretty much the same as fixed-wing aerobatics. We didn't know what "3D" was at the time. Some people started flying upside down with an "invert switch" in the 80s, which seemed cool at the time, but in retrospect was really a crazy way to do it. By the mid-80s there were idle-up functions on the helicopter radios, but it took a few iterations with those before you could really do v-curve for throttle.

My first introduction to "3D," although at a time when the term was still not used, was in the winter of 89/90 when I visited the Youngbloods, and Curtis put on a mind-blowing show with his 60-sized Xcell. We had never seen anything like it - maneuvers that were way beyond what fixed-wing aircraft could do. It seems to me that in the early years helicopter pilots were emulating fixed-wing flight - in some sense trying to show them that we could do what they could do. But after Curtis and others really started to exploit the true capabilities of helicopters, doing things that a fixed-wing aircraft could never do, "3D" flight came to be, and I wonder now if the tables have turned, and 3D fixed-wing flight is now trying to do some of the things with fixed-wing aircraft that we do with helicopters.

So my question is - is doing a loop, roll or hammerhead really 3D? It is definitely cool, and a great feeling of accomplishment when you do it for the first time, but is it really 3D? People had been doing those maneuvers with helicopters for maybe 15 or 20 years before anyone coined the term "3D." It was always my impression that 3D flight meant flight where there was no "normal" direction of flight or attitude - where right-side up, upside down, forward, backward and sideways were essentially interchangeable. What do others think? It's definitely not a black and white issue, but what constitutes "3D?"

--Kevin

[bwoollia]

Backflip in a Blade CP Pro. Ahh, those were the days.

[victorzamora]

My 13th flight ever....it was on a T-Rex 450 clone. It was also last weekend :D. I had done nothing more than hovering, max 30ft high. On my 12th flight I decided to fly around up high and do some FFF to get my bearings with altitude. On my 13th flight, I did a hammerhead. I descended and did a roll into another hammerhead. I then did a loop, a roll, a traveling forward flip, a forward-traveling backflip. On my 14th flight, I repeated all of that...including a 540* hammerhead and, a PIRO FLIP!!!! My 15th flight had a much better piro-flip, as well as everything else above. That was over a 2-day span. Flights 12/13 on Sat and 14/15 on Sunday.

[wantoofly]

Mine kinda looks like 3d about 10' up, while it is total out of control then smashes into the ground.. I guess that does'nt count?:blockhead:

[aaronredbaron]

Kevin (jones007), I like your question so much I am going to write an entire article about it, and I'll be sure to link to this thread to give you credit for the idea. I agree the definition is kind of vague, and tends to vary depending who you talk to....

[StillChargin']

Mine was the Tic Tac... Really ugly type of tic toc that got me so excited I almost hit a tree :P The are on that one was HUGE though, hahaha.

[loopy1]

I think 3d is anything a full scale heli "shouldn't" be able to do. So with that, I'd have to say mine was a really short, inverted, nose in hover, way-waayy up high with my Blade 400! :D

I was grinning all day from that, even though I crashed it on the landing. :D

/Dave

[iflied?]

A barrel roll. Just like a fixed wing. I kinda evolved from there. Ex skateboarder so bear with me. Barrels to tail slides. Barrels with like a 360. Back flips. Trying front flips now...........need parts ill get back to ya if I can pull it off. He he

[budgienutz]

front flip for me but i dont really consider that 3d so i would say a hurricane was my first real 3ding

[loopy1]

Here's a video of my momentary, inverted hover (and some other goofy, accidental stuff). I didn't count the stationary roll as 3d because it wasn't really stationary. We had about a 15-20 mph wind going at the time. I didn't know Jaz was recording this at the time, but it's great to have it for posterity...

Here, almost a year later, and I still don't fly much better, but at least I'm a little quicker on the TH switch.... :rolleyes:

/Dave

http://vimeo.com/1846302

[Naylor]

My first 3D maneuver was a backflip with the original version of the T-Rex 450. Needless to say, not only has my flying come a ways since then, but so have the kits.

[0011000011001]

my first attempt at 3d was a few back flips with my gaui 200,and last night,a short inverted nose in hover at 30ft:D and ive not crashed yet:D

[Van Orden]

mine was a back flip. I did one and got excited, jumping 10ft into the air. then tried another, got freaked out and crashed. here is a video of me almost a year later.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwFMd4eyzv4

[loopy1]

Nice flying! I can say pretty confidently that I wouldn't get through the first 30 seconds of that flight without eating dirt... :)

[Sigma Golem]

Seeing that I have never had or used a SIM, I am progressing rather slowly. My first was a front flip. I can do back flips as well. I have recently progressed into backwards flight, but am stuggling with this, and continue to have minior crashes with my Mini Titan.

I have talked to some pro pilots and they are telling me I need to learn Inverted hover long before backwards flight happens. Another issue Im having with backwards flight is my gyro is blowing out during fast backwards flight. Its strange, as I always thought I had a sound gyro set up untill now. I run a GY401.

Another reason for my lack of 3d flight is, I have no idea what manuvers to try.

Any Ideas?

[weaselbean]

Mine was a poor back flip with a falcon 3d:blockhead:

[Crack kaos!!!]

My first was a loop with a Walkera 36! That was 3 years ago! Here is where I am at now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS4QRfdBzxg

[budgienutz]

My first was a loop with a Walkera 36! That was 3 years ago! Here is where I am at now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS4QRfdBzxg

nice flying
after watching that im happy i didnt post my vid (thought i was doing well)

[wiggles08]

Does the sim count?

[Trickycopter]

Mine was a back flip a couple of nights ago in the living room with the navus cp.

[Helicopter-addict]

Back flip....loop gone wrong...

H/A

[brutefoe]

thats what i want to learn to do !! that is some awsome flying !! !! !!! after i wreck my 125 FP 100 times more i should be ready for a CP> lol. you rock dude !!

[Xpress..]

The first one I learned was the takeoff :D

[chansen1953]

hi, new to this forum...
I did my first inverted last week, and just yesterday, did several rolls and loops.. mostly trying desperately to save it from crashing !!!
so far... 3D tricks = 4, landing afterwards successfully = 0 !!!

[SicMiniT]

I did my first inverted last night, somewhere between 3am and 5am. Rolled out of bed partly onto the floor. Woke up on my neck. Successful landing, had to replace no parts. :D

[CSpaced]

I did my first inverted last night, somewhere between 3am and 5am. Rolled out of bed partly onto the floor. Woke up on my neck. Successful landing, had to replace no parts. :D

:D :clap:

[Chrisrain]

mine was a frontflip just last week...very scary doing that first flip:D