Introduction

Over the next 30 days, I will be learning to fly a simple RC Helicopter that I recently was given as a gift:  The Air Hogs Fly Crane.  Yes it doesn't sound that hard... Take off, zoom around, and land right?  Well it’s far more difficult than that.  Many factors go into flying an RC helicopter, even one as simple as the Fly Crane.  Its nothing like a RC car where you are able to just stop at any time.  A RC Helicopter must be in constant motion throughout its flight or it will end badly.  Hopefully by showing my journey to advance my learning in flying my Helicopter, anybody else interested in doing so will benefit from my experience.

Even though my RC Helicopter is very simple in comparison to the much larger and complex (and expensive) RC Helicopters that you may be more familiar with, the very same Aerodynamics affect them.

By the end of these next 30 days, I plan to be able to fly around a decent sized room (classroom) without hitting anything.  I also want to be able to swoop down with the retractable hook and transport the baskets from point A to point B (without crashing).