In the beginning of my radio controlled fixed-wing aircraft days, nose-in orientation was an issue.
A flying buddy gave me the key to that saying, "if you want to level the aircraft, don't think bank left or bank right, simply push the roll stick towards the low wing and the wing will move towards level". This worked instantly for me to resolve nose-in orientation issues. Then came my dive in to Helis, where other than tail rotor(yaw), the same key worked, since a heli's rotor is a flying disk who's angle can be observed, like a fixed wing. With drones I don't have issues with roll or pitch, but sometimes yaw can confuse me nose-in. Today I started trying to teach myself to disregard right/left again, choosing instead to adopt the terms clockwise and counterclockwise, since these are the same no matter the AC's orientation.
Other than more stick time, anyone have suggestions for this?
A flying buddy gave me the key to that saying, "if you want to level the aircraft, don't think bank left or bank right, simply push the roll stick towards the low wing and the wing will move towards level". This worked instantly for me to resolve nose-in orientation issues. Then came my dive in to Helis, where other than tail rotor(yaw), the same key worked, since a heli's rotor is a flying disk who's angle can be observed, like a fixed wing. With drones I don't have issues with roll or pitch, but sometimes yaw can confuse me nose-in. Today I started trying to teach myself to disregard right/left again, choosing instead to adopt the terms clockwise and counterclockwise, since these are the same no matter the AC's orientation.
Other than more stick time, anyone have suggestions for this?