Pre-requisite: - tail in hover Phase I: - Hover tail-in at a comfortable distance and altitude. - Using the left rudder, perform a 360-deg rotation back to tail-in. - Repeat, making sure the model does not climb or drop altitude while executing the rotation. Phase II: - Hover tail-in at a comfortable distance and altitude. - Using the left rudder, perform a 180-deg rotation. - Pause for 1 second and then complete the maneuver with another 180-deg rotation back to tail-in. - Repeat, making sure the model does not climb or drop altitude while executing the rotation. - After several repetitions, try increasing the pause from 1-sec to 2-sec, and so on. Phase III: - Phase I and Phase II not only train the student on the tail-in maneuver but this exercise is also training them on the "bail-out". Knowing this, the student must now put the model into the nose-in hover position and hold the model as long as they can and use the 180-deg turn back to tail-in as the "bailout" should they begin to lose orientation. Phase IV: - Once the student has become comfortable with holding the nose-in hover attitude, start bring the helicopter to the left by 20-40 feet. The student must learn to stop the helicopter from continuing to drift to the left by applying right cyclic to counter the movement. - Once the helicopter has stopped at the far left position, hold the model there for a number of seconds. The student should remember that they are able to perform the "bailout" described above at any time should they become uncomfortable or disoriented. - After holding the model for a few seconds on the left, maintain the nose-in position and begin bringing the model to the right, you can chose to hold at Pilot Center or continue to an inflection position 20-40 feet to the right of Pilot Center. - Again, the student will stop the helicopter by applying left cyclic to arrest the drifting motion that is going to the right. - Once the helicopter has stopped at the far right position, hold the model there for a number of seconds. Again, the student should remember that they are able to perform the "bailout" described above at any time should they become uncomfortable or disoriented. - With suggested and continued practice, the student should be able to perform the above maneuver with deliberation and authority such that the model can be thrusted into acceleration and deceleration at both the far left and right positions.