the explanation of tail thrust pushing the model really helped me, I was surprised how strong the effect is in real life, and your video cleaned up my tic tocs. Thank you!
Thanks for posting all this great content. It's guys like you that makes this hobby truly great. I fly in Sydney Australia, not many heli guys down here.
@rchelicopter I don't believe so. I'm a member at two clubs in Sydney, one I've been a member at almost 10 years and I'm the only guy that flys helis in any sort of serious manner. They are out there but not at my clubs. Plus, Sydney is a terrible place to be into RC aircraft to be honest. Flying fields are generally very poor standards, small, tree lined, mainly fixed wing members with very few club choices and usually miles away from people's homes. It makes it a difficult hobby to achieve high levels of flying proficiency.
Nice to see you on camera! Great vid, just what I wanted - still can't do sustained tictocs 🙈 I tried to approach them from in a different way, but yours looks much better. Will try that soon 👍
Hey, great video again! Is the axis of rotation of a 100% clean elevator tictoc supposed to be the tail rotor? Obviously this would no longer work for the nose down version...
It's probably the tip of the blade at the bottom. For F3N it's defined as the model travelling no more than 2 meters laterally, which is quite big. But fairly tight looks better.
I think you have skids in and skids out mixed up. This whole vid is skids in.. not out. You said the skids " in" would mean the skids are facing you? No that is skids out. The figure 8 you did was 100% skids in. IDK why you call it skids out. its to the orientation of the maneuver. Not the pilot. you dont call a skids out hurricane or cyclone or piro wall of deth " skids in" when the skids are facing you its the orientation of the manuver lol. Like that 360* moving tictok you did.. were teh skids in or out? Well to the pilot they were both skids in and out in the same maneuver?
Piro wall of death tick tocks are my fave. They are really easy once you get the piro tictock down. I think that is integral. Not just what ya call ele or ail tick tocks, but just sit there and do a clock. Nose up, tock, nose down, tick, nose up, tock, or the four points... nose up tick, nose right tock, nose down, tick, nose right another 90*... tock Then the 180* flipping rudder every tock they are fun too I thnk they called " piro tictocks? " either or skids in or skids out. Skids facing you or skids facing away. 180* pirotocks are easy but a little different form 90* clock big ben Both are good practive. I never have any problems with tail thrust. the tail is always set up right and i got curves mixing channels against channels so the collective doesnt make much difference.
Piro wall of death tick tocks are like a tickint tocking in a cyclone/hurricane style skids in or skids out circle. half a piro flip every tick to the next tock. So its both a skids in and skids out manuver relative to the circlulr flightp[ath.
@@dogdipstick I'm sure you could minimise the tail thrust for this move using mixes, but it would have some weird side effects doing other stuff. I think you've been doing it so long you don't even realise you're correcting for side-thrust using the aileron.
@@rchelicopter I was wrong on the DISKIN DISK OUT thing its been a long time. I just watched NM #3 One Tank Tips and he says the same thing as you did.
Stu at 0:55 invading my space again. Totally threw me off my stride 😂
the explanation of tail thrust pushing the model really helped me, I was surprised how strong the effect is in real life, and your video cleaned up my tic tocs. Thank you!
I've heard figures of 5 to 15% of the power goes into the tail, so that's a lot of thrust to counter, and useful to know how to use it.
Thanks for posting all this great content. It's guys like you that makes this hobby truly great. I fly in Sydney Australia, not many heli guys down here.
Really? I thought you guys had a really good helicopter community going.
@rchelicopter I don't believe so. I'm a member at two clubs in Sydney, one I've been a member at almost 10 years and I'm the only guy that flys helis in any sort of serious manner. They are out there but not at my clubs. Plus, Sydney is a terrible place to be into RC aircraft to be honest. Flying fields are generally very poor standards, small, tree lined, mainly fixed wing members with very few club choices and usually miles away from people's homes. It makes it a difficult hobby to achieve high levels of flying proficiency.
Nice to see you on camera! Great vid, just what I wanted - still can't do sustained tictocs 🙈 I tried to approach them from in a different way, but yours looks much better. Will try that soon 👍
Great video and awesome explanations as always. I'll definitely try and learn the few manoeuvres in this that I'm missing!
You said you knew all the basics 😂
I guess I'll rephrase, I know almost all the basics lol.
Another fantastic video, thanks Rich.
great view . nice vids to
Thanks 👍
Thanks!
How are you so good at this?
Also nice area you are filming soon I hope to be good at tictocs❤🎉😊
Thanks. Not as good as some, but good enough to have fun 😂
Hey, great video again! Is the axis of rotation of a 100% clean elevator tictoc supposed to be the tail rotor? Obviously this would no longer work for the nose down version...
It's probably the tip of the blade at the bottom. For F3N it's defined as the model travelling no more than 2 meters laterally, which is quite big. But fairly tight looks better.
Hi 👋🏻 whats the Input in a Tictoc circle ! Elevator or aileron or both ?? Nice Video how ever !
Both. Elevator to keep it up, and aileron to move it around.
@@rchelicopter thank you for the Answer 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎
hi hi
I think you have skids in and skids out mixed up. This whole vid is skids in.. not out. You said the skids " in" would mean the skids are facing you? No that is skids out.
The figure 8 you did was 100% skids in. IDK why you call it skids out.
its to the orientation of the maneuver. Not the pilot. you dont call a skids out hurricane or cyclone or piro wall of deth " skids in" when the skids are facing you its the orientation of the manuver lol.
Like that 360* moving tictok you did.. were teh skids in or out? Well to the pilot they were both skids in and out in the same maneuver?
You're right, I did a shocking job on this one. Must try harder!
Piro wall of death tick tocks are my fave. They are really easy once you get the piro tictock down. I think that is integral. Not just what ya call ele or ail tick tocks, but just sit there and do a clock. Nose up, tock, nose down, tick, nose up, tock, or the four points... nose up tick, nose right tock, nose down, tick, nose right another 90*... tock
Then the 180* flipping rudder every tock they are fun too I thnk they called " piro tictocks? " either or skids in or skids out. Skids facing you or skids facing away. 180* pirotocks are easy but a little different form 90* clock big ben Both are good practive.
I never have any problems with tail thrust. the tail is always set up right and i got curves mixing channels against channels so the collective doesnt make much difference.
Piro wall of death tick tocks are like a tickint tocking in a cyclone/hurricane style skids in or skids out circle. half a piro flip every tick to the next tock. So its both a skids in and skids out manuver relative to the circlulr flightp[ath.
@@dogdipstick I'm sure you could minimise the tail thrust for this move using mixes, but it would have some weird side effects doing other stuff. I think you've been doing it so long you don't even realise you're correcting for side-thrust using the aileron.
@@rchelicopter I was wrong on the DISKIN DISK OUT thing its been a long time. I just watched NM #3 One Tank Tips and he says the same thing as you did.