Helicopter Resources

[coachchuckaahs]

The National Free Flight Society is continuing their sponsorship of the Flight events, including Helicopter this year. It is our goal to make your flying experience more enjoyable and successful, and also to reveal to you additional flying opportunities as a lifelong hobby!

Our resources for Heli are still under development, and will continue to be added to at https://www.freeflight.org/science-olym ... resources/

In addition, we have several videos, and maintain a set of SO-related video playlists at https://www.youtube.com/@FreeFlightDigest. We have added a Heli playlist for this year.

Several top coaches can help you online. Our primary focus is in this forum under the main topic Helicopter B/C (please don't pose questions in this resources topic). We also monitor the student-led flight Discord site (which is separate from the SO Discord site)

Please bookmark these resource pages, and check in regularly for additional resources that we generate during the season.

Coach Chuck

[coachchuckaahs]

The 2025 Coaches Clinic is now posted in video format at https://youtu.be/VrbQbD_VZ1I. The Powerpoint and PDF versions without my presenting will soon be posted at Coaches Resources on the NFFS site, at https://www.freeflight.org/science-olym ... d-coaches/, replacing the 2024 Flight seminar currently posted there.

Coach Chuck

[PrancingPlane]

Coach Chuck,

If possible, could you post a link to the Student lead flight discord server? I feel it would help a great many people, myself included.
I really appreciate the depth of the materials you have already posted.

Sincerely,

Prancing.

[coachchuckaahs]

Here is a link to the student-led Discord server: https://discord.com/channels/1138688864 ... 2468811776

While some coaches do comment on that server, we prefer that questions be raised here on this forum. It is far easier to find things here. On Discord things quickly shift to pages of stuff that is hard to find prior posts. There is far less chaff here on the forums.

Enjoy the Discord server, but please, if you want questions answered by coaches, this forum is the best place to ask.

Coach Chuck

[coachchuckaahs]

Coach Chuck and Coach Brian will present an online seminar through SO on Thursday Oct 3, 5-6PM CDT. The participant link is https://soinc-org.zoom.us/webinar/regis ... UzcX8q58KQ.

We anticipate about 3 minutes presentation, followed by 30 minutes Q&A.

Coach Chuck

[coachchuckaahs]

We have started a new series of shorts on Youtube to answer common questions. They will be in a playlist, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... fTYxElOwbs. They should all be shorts. However, the first one is 1:23, and the Youtube feature that now allows shorts up to 3 minutes is not working, so it displays as a long. We will take common questions we see here and on the Flight Discord Channel and make short videos to answer.

Coach Chuck

[coachchuckaahs]

Another new series, specific to the FFM helicopter, has been started by Coach Brian. You can see the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsRZcJp ... rP&pp=gAQB

Coach Chuck

[coachchuckaahs]

A new help short has been posted, which shows the process for cutting ribs from balsa sheet without a laser cutter.

https://youtube.com/shorts/fVyfmasKrkw

Coach Chuck

[papertowns]

Here is a link to the student-led Discord server: https://discord.com/channels/1138688864 ... 2468811776

While some coaches do comment on that server, we prefer that questions be raised here on this forum. It is far easier to find things here. On Discord things quickly shift to pages of stuff that is hard to find prior posts. There is far less chaff here on the forums.

Enjoy the Discord server, but please, if you want questions answered by coaches, this forum is the best place to ask.

Coach Chuck

Hey Coach Chuck!,

Any chance you can resend a new discord server link? Thanks a lot.

Regards

[coachchuckaahs]

That link should be good, and permanent. You have to either click on it, or right-click and copy hyperlink. The forum software shortens the visual representation, so a simple text copy does not work.

Let me know if that does not work and I will check with the Discord team to see if it needs updating.

When I right-click and then click "open in a new tab", it takes me to the right place, but I am already a member so I am not sure that fully tests it.

If you are not a member, it should take you to a limited page that gives the rules of engagement, and the process on how to get accepted into the server.

Coach Chuck