Forward Flight
When you can maintain a side-in hover at will what could be more natural than to apply a bit of forward elevator and make it go across the room?
Here's How:
1. Take off.
2. Maintain a steady height from the floor, low enough that you can see the rotor disk.
3. Turn the helicopter side-in.
4. Push the right stick up a small amount to make it go forward two or three feet.
5. Pull the right stick back to center position or slightly back to stop it.
6. Push the left stick sideways to rotate the helicopter so it is facing the way it came.
7. Move the helicopter forward two or three feet.
Now you are really flying!
A word of caution: stop the heli before it gets too close to walls or obstacles. There is an effect known as 'wall suck' that pushes helicopters into walls. The air above the rotor disk has less pressure than the surrounding air in the room. When the helicopter gets too close to a wall the room air actually pushes it towards the wall. A point is reached where the amount of cyclic control force generated by a co-axial heli is not enough to counteract the push of the room air and a collision is inevitable!.