2010 February :: Freestyle3D – Todd Bennett's Worldwide 3D R/C Helicopter Flying School

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Feb

18

Traveling school news!

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This has been a very busy year for me. Seems like the traveling schools are getting to be very popular. If time permits we will do more traveling schools next year. Sorry to all our international customers for not having time this year for too many traveling schools out of the country. We will try and set time aside for those of you next year

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Feb

18

Hi to our Hong Kong students :)

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Thanks to all the friends I have made during the traveling schools, you guys make this a fun job

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Feb

18

Viper head by OMI on the YS .91 short stroke

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The Viper head by OMI on the YS .91 short stroke makes the engine very smooth, adds more power, and provides better cooling. I have also asked OMI to do a Viper head for the YS 90 long stroke.

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Student Testimonial

Todd, I can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed our time we spent training together. The fact that you train with the Freya was very exciting to me because I have been flying a Freya for about two months. I have been flying a Raptor for about a year. Flying the Freya has brought my flying to a new level. The stability and control of the Freya has been such a confidence builder. She has allowed me to attempt new and exciting maneuvers. I spent 5 hours flying with Todd and his Freya's. First I flew my Raptor for him and he Decided on a plan for today's training. we started with the basic's. Straight line flying. It is amazing how bad a maneuver ends up when you don't enter it properly. These subtle little changes we made, made a great deal of difference. Most important it painted a different picture for me on what the proper look of my helicopter should have. We than went on to knife edge flying. I never knew that a helicopter could hang in the air so long, (when it is done right). Throw in a pirouette or two and wow, now that is hang time. One of the most exciting flights was when Todd would put his heli into a strange attitude and I would recover. Now, If you haven't seen Todd fly you might not be able grasp the magnitude of intensity of this. It is hard enough to follow him when he is flying let alone try to recover from where he tells you to. This was the most exciting flights I have had the pleasure to part of. All this and we were bearly into the 2nd hour. Believe it or not it gets better from here. We did things such as backwards flying with rolls and pirouettes, flipping and tumbling combinations, forward and backward inverted flying. We worked on fundamentals. Not over loading the heli with to much pitch control. SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY. Todd teaches safety throughout the entire training session starting with take off to lock in hover, to lock in hover prior to landing. This is a great practice for beginners as we are still working on heli set up and maintenance. All in all, This has been a great learning experience for me. I recommend to anyone who wants to take their flying to the next level that Todd is the man to have as your instructor, at whatever level you are flying at. I look forward to my next lesson with Todd.

Alan W. Phillips
Cape Fair, Missouri

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