Protech ZOOM 425 ccpm Specifications download pdf (Page 135)

It looks really cool to paint your helicopter completely black; however it rapidly becomes less

cool when you realize you can't see the orientation of the helicopter beyond ten feet.A black

helicopter rapidly turns into a silhouette, and becomes very difficult to fly.

If painting, be sure to paint your canopy a bright color. Flourescent neon colors work well. A

two-tone color scheme where the left side is painted a different color than the right side helps

visual orientation considerably.

15.2.3. Use white blades

Black blades are cool, but they turn almost invisible when hovering. White blades are much

more visible.

15.2.4. Use a heading hold gyro.

This will free you from worrying about the yaw and rate of yaw of the helicopter, which leaves

you free to concentrate on the other ten orientation items.

15.3. Minimize downtime; maximize practice time

Several items fit into this category:

• Practice on a durable heli (Corona)

• Use training gear to minimize the chance of tipping over and damaging the rotor blades and

tailboom

• Use a boom protector (dowels taped/tiewrapped to boom to reduce damage if main rotor

blades hit the boom)

• Practice on the simulator. The helicopters in the simulator do not require a trip to a hobby

store or waiting for parts to arrive from an online store. They don't require finding a dealer

with parts in stock, or waiting for parts to arrive, or installing the replacement parts, or tedi-

ous detective work to identify the cause of vibration problems.

Simulators and heading hold gyros are probably the two biggest advances in the last five

years for reducing the learning curve of R/C helicopters.

• Keep a supply of commonly damaged/lost crash parts. For the Corona, this would be: main

rotor blades, tailbooms, vertical tail fins, and Z links.

For other helicopters, this would include: main rotor blades, flybars, flybar paddles, spindle

shafts, main rotor shafts, tail booms, tail rotor blades, tail rotor shafts, vertical tail fins, and

landing gears.

• Know your limits for each day. Your limits for each day will change depending on various

factors, including: how much sleep you've had, how tired or stressed you are, and other

variables.

Therefore, you should start your practice each day by performing very easy exercises to

warm up. This will allow you to gauge your limits for that day. If you are not flying well, then

you should hone your existing skills instead of trying to learn new skills. This will reduce

your probability of crashing.

15.4. Divide the learning process into smaller, easier steps

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