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@glenduncan Thank you very much! Yes, the drone pilots showed some exellent skills and Michal dit this great editing. He was as well very brave to allow me to try his DJI drone.

@AnythingEverythingRC This is a very good strategy! I was "just flying around" for too long. Now I am always going back to basics. Practicing flips and rolls as smooth as possible, working on collective pitch management. It's a very good learning method to focus on selected points until they get better. Step by step is the better way to make progress than wanting all steps at one moment. Very good. I feel that since I am doing this my flying gets "cleaner" and smoother. Patience is a very important thing in heli flying! Symmetry is all!! Congratulations and hapy flights!!

@@RCCopterLove-helis4ever It's so cool that every time we talk, and you make videos, we seem to be progressing in much the same ways. Our history with Heli's aligns almost perfectly. LOL

@@AnythingEverythingRC-rc1yc Yes, very often we seem to come to the same conclusions! I wish you great progression in the details!!

@mikeisiah1091 Thank you very much, Mike! Yes You are absolutely right! I will name it from now on the Field of Dreams!! Best gretings and happy flights!

@Jupi-aladin Thank you very ,much! I love this new spot and met already the farmer who owns the field. He allowed me to fly there! So I hope I can return there for a very long time. I am having many batteries (enought for a loong flight session) and I am charging them the day before. Quite slow: my 6S 2000 and 2200 mAh batts with less than 1 C (1,5 A) and they like it. All my 6S, 3S and 2S batteries are having hundrets of cycles u under their belt and all cells are balanced, resistance is OK, I also only charge to 4,15 volt. Some 3s batteries I am using since 2021!! Best greetings to Switzerland!!

Wau, then you must have really plenty of batteries and probably chargers. An other point, that I'm wondering: What is the flight-weight of your M4 Max, with batteries?

@@jupi-aladin Yes, I have 10 batteries for my M4 and M4 Max and each 10 for my M2's and M1's. So enough "ammunition" to get my brain cooked before I have flown all batteries on one day. 3 Chargers are working hard. My M4 Max weights flight ready with battery 1520 gramm. Without battery and tray 1180 gramm. The M4 is about 170 gramm lighter. Best greetings and happy flights!

@@RCCopterLove-helis4ever Thank you very much for all this information. It is very interesting for me to know how others do it. I have only 3 batteries for my M2 Evo, but a field-charger and a larger LiIon-battery to charge on the field. I wish you happy flights too

@@jupi-aladin Thank you! Yes it's interesting that almost everyne has a different approach.

@rickhayes Thank you very much, Rick! I am trying to find the right amount of negative pitch at the top when inverted and the right moment/timing. The great thing is: if the loop is really pretty round and big all has to come together: speed, amount of pos collective when going up, negative pitch timing.... There is so much to learn. On this new field it is so great to fly! Thank you for all advise and all the best to you!

@rolex0071 Thank you so much Eamon! Yes, flyin in the sun on this new place is giving so much joy!! Blessings from Poland to Ireland!! I wish you lots of sun!!

@frisos3944 Thank you for the good tips! I will try this step by step. For sure my whole collective pitch management during loops, flips and rolls is still bad. All happenes so fast and so many things have to be done and controlled in one single moment! That's the the most challenging in flying collective pitch helis - and what makes it so beautiful: The endless learning!! Sorry for your field situation. I was searching 3 years until I found this field 7 km from my home.

@QC Kurt Thank you! It's a very different flying if you don't have to worry about powerlines oin one side and tight and limited space on the other. It is so much more fun!! Best Greetings!

@arturosierra413 Thank you very much! I am very lucky that I was discovering this place. I am living in Silesea: Industrial area, very crowded, very little free space. I was searching for 3 years! Best greetings!

@blooskyy7 Great! We "used" the best source. John even answered on my emails and gave me tipps! His knowledge regarding mechanics, electronics, lipos and so much more is unbelievable!! Have a great time and happy flights!!

@t.s.thomas02 Thank you very much Thomas! It was very much fun to do these flights with two very good pilots I just met moments before. But the strong wind (look at the grass before takeoff) was causing that there was an element of adrenaline. Although we were flying carefully like never! Can't wait to see you coming videos!!

@AnythingEverythingRC Thank you! I love this shot with the drone and my M4 Max so close as well very much! My heart was pumping a lot in this moment! Since a couple of weeks we have very strong winds every day. I got used to it but I hope the wind will calm down one day. The landings are the most difficult because just the gusty wind picks the heli up one meter in one second and throws it down one meter in the next. I always start my landing approach with some time feft in my battery. Thats why it took so long in the first video to bring my M4 Max down safe. Lets hope for at least some calm days!

@Michal_Klima Thank you Michal!! It was great to have this drone adventure with you!! All the best!!

@jupi-aladin Thank you very much! I am glad you like the aerial views! We had to be really very careful because we have met for the first time! So the outcome was a surprise! But I felt at once trust to Michal and Karol. They are great drone pilots! To fly by muself with goggles was a strange feeling. I did not feel distance, speed, direction. It takes for sure a lot of practice to be good in FPV flying. I am more happy with my helis and watching how the fly.

@Rcheliguy Thank you! We had to fly very, very conservative taking care of distance to eachother to get everything down in one piece. The strong wind was not really helpful!! All the best!

@RubenRC94 Thank you Ruben! Yes, both look fantastic in the sky! I love the view from above on the rotor disc! We all 3 were flying extremely careful because of the extreme wind on both days! Keeping distance, communication what we will do next. It was fun!!

@alvintarrer6914 Thank you Alvin and I wish you lots of fun with the build! It's really very good described and very logical. Even the electronical setup and radio programming was much easier when I bulit my second kit, the M4 Max!

Others recommend smaller helis, I have a drone so maybe that help out,thanks for reply..👍☕️☕️✌️

@@alvintarrer6914 You are very welcome! I was beinning with 60 years with an OMP M2.... It crashes very well and repairs are cheap. I used this "opportunity" to learn cheap quite often... but I was completely new to ANY RC. If you fly drones I really believe you will do better than me! Just take your time and train hovering and slow side to side flyinmg as long as it is your second nature. I learned right away without selflevel. For me this was the best way. But everyone is different! Good luck and if you need any help, pease always ask!!

This is right up my ally,when I purchase I'll keep in touch,thank you sir 👍☕️☕️✌️

@@alvintarrer6914 Great! I am in Stand By mode 😀 You will be always welcome! It's great that you start flying helis now!! I love it soo much!!

@Michal_Klima To ja dziekuje Wam za spontaniczna wspolpracy!!

@jwdrone512 Thank you very much! I am trying this at the moment. Timing and amount of negative pitch on top are not easy! But this is making it so awesome! Best greetings!!

@Rcheliguy thank you very much, my friend! I take it now a bit more slow, fly less and it is really going better! I hope you will finish the setup of your new heli soon! All the best and happy flights!!

@AnythingEverythingRC Thank you! I feel as well that we have a lot in common! Great to fly regulry but not too often! And for sure flying in tight space is a really good training to learn to fly precisely and to bring the heli to definde places where you want to have it and it's not flying all over the place!

@maximuskodrrata 🙂Thank you so much! 🙂

@tomkoller749 Vielen herzlichen Dank! Ich liebe es einfach, diese CP helis zu fliegen! Der Anfang war nicht leicht, aber jetzt freue ich mich an jedem neuen Maneuver! Ja, RC rockt! Toll, dass Sie auch fixedwing fliegen!!

@jupi-aladin To be honest I did not find a clear answer, if the M4 or the M4 Max is easier to fly in winds. At the moment I fly only the M4 because I have it 4 or 5 month longer and know it better. I will fly the M4 Max next week. It has more power and is less affacted of Vortex Ringsate Effects. But I just have much less flights on it. I will come back to you!!

@@RCCopterLove-helis4ever I am very curious about your comparison

@@jupi-aladin I will let you know as soon as I have flown one after another on one day!

@rolex0071 Thank you Eamon! Blessings from Poland!!

Hello Brian! I am happy to answer your questions: 1. I am using the AccuRC 3 simulator. There will be no more new model updates, but the existing modesl are great and the flight physics feel every close to real life! 2. for sure it is technically easier to fly bigger helis. They are more forgiving, better visibility. BUT: At least for me it's making me more nervous if I imagine that I might crash a large heli hand have expensive damage. So it;s just a "head thing". I am more "loose" and relaxed with the small ones. But I am sure it's a matter of time! Best greetings and I hope this helps!!

@iwontreplybacklol7481 Thanks for your comment! I am flying my M4 and M4 max now much more often than the M2 EVO and I am getting more an more feel for them and feel more comfortable. But I try all new maneuvers with my M2 first and treat it a bit like a real time simulator. When I crash it's no big deal. Second reason: I love to fly my M2's almost everywehre because I need much less space to do acrobatics with the small one. I am still new to helis, so it's just a matter of time that I will feel with the big ones as comfortable as with the small ones.

@ndiwww Thank you veru much!

@arekniemiec368 Arek, masz racje: Wszystko jest odwrotnie : Do gory jest na dol (i drogi :) ), na dol jest do gory. W lewo jest prawo prawo jrest w lewo, do tyl jest do przod itd!! .... BOZE.... Glowa sie gotuje po kilka minut!! Dziekuje Chlopie!!

@blooskyy7 You are so right that while building my very first helicopter kit I was learning soo much. I am a late starter ( I started with 60 years) and never ever had ANY RC experience.No cars, planes, boats. )So starting with collective pitch helis was quite overwhealming. Building my second set, the M4 Max was already easier. But TX setup (Radiomaster and Edge TX is still some kind of an unnknown field for me! I hope I will understand more and more an more! Best Greetings!

@Mhr168 Thank you very much for being happy for me! Yes, it is a fantastic feeling when you do it for the first time in the real world! Congratulations that you did it with your M1!! Great!!!. It is more difficult technically with the small helis. But in the head (crashcost!!!) it is less stressful. My favorite heli for inverted training is the M2 EVO! The 3 S battery gives it so much power reserve! I would recommend to get one if yiu dont have already! You will love it! I have 2 M2 EVO's and 3 M2's of the M2 V2 generation. I love to fly them all sooo much! Best greetings!!

@@RCCopterLove-helis4ever I got the m2 evo as well , I’ll try to flip it this weekend ;)

@@Mrh168 Thats great! For me it's easier with the M2! I wish you good luck and safe flips!! Have fun!!

@danielschibig8014 Thank you very much for your good advise. I am doing a lot of inverted hovering on one place on my simulator. I even try to move the helis in the sim in inverted flight from far away closer to me, hold them there as long as possible. It is not easy in the SIM, but we have very strong and gusty winds on my field... since many, many weeks. And in this wind it is still much too difficult for me to keep my helis on one place. I am yet far away to really feel what is the influence of the wind and how I can "counter balance" on my sticks. I am doing this inverted flying in movement to do ANY inverted flying in the real life. Now in this wind my skills are much too poor for hovering on one place. But this is my next goal!! Best greetings from Poland to Switzerland!!

Yes, it‘s really important also for learning hovering in real time that you earn time to stay in a position without stress for 1 or 2 sec (later for 3 or 4 sec an so on…..the rest will come automatically when you have build enough trust) and that you have always a safety exit. Keep it flying😊

@@danielschibig8014 Yes, Daniel,You mention an important word: Stress. Gusty high winds and continous inverted hover cause a lot of stress at this moment. When I am inverted in a bit movement (as well caused by wind) I am already busy keeping enough altitude and "planning" my way out of inverted. But it feels a bit safer for me. It is so important for me to have a "plan" for a bailout! In general the method with increasing hover times inverted you are describing is exactly how I came closer and closer to hovering upright in 3D mode until a full batterie in my first weeks and days in March 2021. History repeats itself!! 😀

Yes it is Matthias, it is - that‘s the challenge of heli flying !

@mr.e3d Thank you so much! Yes, the combination of simulator flying and flying on the real field is the best one can do! Now the weather "helps" me, because it's cold and raining. So I am a lot on the SIM. And thank you for your encouragement! It's so important to stand up and fly again after crashes!! Best greetings from Poland to Turkey!!

@ QCKurt Thank you very much for your kind words, Kurt! I am using the Radiomaster TX12 MkII radio (Edge TX), the FrSky R-XSR mini receiver, the OMPHOBBY 85A ESC (PNP-Kit with OMP servos) and the MSH Brain 2 Flybarless system. I have the same FBL in the M4. Danke fuer die guten Wuensche! Ich wuensche Ihnen und uns allen Piloten auch besseres Flugwetter. Beste Gruesse aus Polen!

Thank you for you quick response. I have an M2 but went with an Align 500x, just having a difficult day time trying to figure out what receiver to use with the Radiomaster Tx16 and the Microbeast flybar unit. I do like the M4 and maybe I can get one later. I believe you are in a club with Jonas, what a great resource to pick his brain. Thank you again. Bis Später. I lived in Germany for 20 years. In the Stuttgart area.

@@qck57594 You are very welcome, Kurt! And Yes, it is a great opportunity and a big chance to be in one team with Jonas and all these other amazing pilots from really all over the world. They really supporting and encouraging me and are helping me even when I am asking funny ot lets name it honestly a bit stupid questions. Nobody ever laughed about me! We two are in the same club: I was l living in Bad Homburg close to Frankfurt am Main before I was moving to Poland many years ago!! Bis spaeter!!

@Franks-heli-info Hallo Frank! Vielen herzlichen Dank! Thank you very much!! I hope the weather will be soon more stable and warm and the wind will hopefully take a couple of days vacation!! :) I like wind but for staying inverted a bit longer it's not really a help!!

@blooskyy7 Thank you very much for your kind words! Yes, you are right! in the last few years there have been amazing developments. I did not test Rotorflight yet - especially because I am unexperienced in FBL programming. But I have heard from many OMPHOBBY Heli Team Pilots, especially Jonas Wackershauser, that they really love it and that it offers an amazing performance and precision! I hope with their help and advise I will be able to test it in my next helicopter. In jonas opinion it is much better used with Radiomaster and the TX 16 than the Mikado VBar system in means of performance. Best greetings from Poland!!

@@RCCopterLove-helis4ever Greetings from Australia 🙂

@@blooskyy7 Thank You! Thats faaar away! I am so happy that you found my videos!! And I hope you will have a comback to flying helis!! This would be great after such a long break!

Absolutely, I've just finished converting my Logo 400 and Trex450 to Rotorflight which are flying amazingly well. Think I'll need to consider getting the M2 and M4 for direct drive.

@@blooskyy7 Wow, I am so happy to hear of your comeback and with Rotorflight! Flying my helis is giving me so much joy and I started so late (with 60 years) that I cannot imagine to stop it ever! I believe the M2 EVO will blow your mind away! You can fly it almost everyweher and it is as capable as the best gigger helis. The M4 and the M4 Max opened a new world of flying for me because they have been my first a bit bigger helis! All the best and many, many great and safe flights!!

@jupi-aladin Hi Reto, thank you so much for your kind words! Yes it was and is ice cold and extremely windy. My fingers were frozen after 3 flights and my brain even faster (saying in the video that it was the 18th of August instead April). Maybe this was wishful thinking!! Thank you, I wish you as well a great weekend with much better and more calm weather for us all Heli Pilots!! Wind is and always was my best trainer and teacher, But what is too much is just too much!! Best greetings from Poland to Switzerland!!

@AnythingEverythingRC Thank you very much! I like flying in winds if it is not every day! It's a great reaction training and once you have learned to USE the wind and PLAY more with it than to fight it is even fun. It creates a great feel for what helis are doing. You are right with the partial grin at 0:22 . But the fear was anything but little, believe me. :D I was almost terrified and at the and, when my loved M4 Max was on the safe on the ground the relief was GIGANTIC!!

@anthonyriter Thank you very much! I am really convinced that it's never too late to start flying RC helis if you REALLY want to!! I just would give you the advise to take your time. Go step by step and dont look for shortcuts. I was at some times too ambitous, compared myself with others and wanted too much. And what I got was: Crashes, frustration, rebulids, doubts and so on. Since I listen to my intuition and take my time all goes much more smooth. Pressure (and if its from yourself ON yourself) is not a good thing! All is about flow and fun!! Okay, today I was stressed.... but this HAS TO BE an exeption!! all the best for you!!

@frisos3944 Thank you very much and best greetings!!!

@rickhayes Thank you Rick!! It took a lot of "braveness" to go inverted with such a bigger heli! But it looks and sounds so great. Now I am hoping for better weather!! For all of us!!

@Rcheliguy Thank you very much! The first time with this big bird was stressing! Especially in this gusty wind! But it was worth it!! Best greetings, Buddy!!

@arturosierra Thank you so much! I hope I will soon feel as comfortable with the M4 Max as I feel with my sweet M2 Evo's. They feel like a part of me and it's a magical feeling! But with this bigger and heavier machine I have to get much, much more flightime and experience!! Best greetings to you!!!

@RobertBurrow Thank you Robert! I was so happy that I was able to keep her in one piece!!!

@James-T-RC Thank you so much, James!!