[Geno Mancini]

Doing flight training I have experienced times when we could not maintain a hover due to insufficient lift by the main rotor blades. After cleaning off bug splats and sanding the paint chips on the leading edge of all blades to smooth paint and metal leading edges it made a huge difference. A coat of wax can also help. After cleaning up the leading edges we could maintain a good hover height and continue flight training.

Good one Orv,
I do sand my leading edges peordicaly.