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Learning to Hover a Helicopter

SmarterEveryDay · Demo · YouTube title: Hovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145
Why it's here

HN uses it as a vivid example of tacit knowledge and skill acquisition, where the brain eventually abstracts away the complexity.

What it covers

Smarter Every Day host Destin Sandlin tries to hover a helicopter and finds it very hard. The video shows how the constant coordinated corrections across several control axes feel at first and how learning makes them automatic.