> I'm not a trainer helicopter pilot, but an Aero engineer that has done > several helicopter simulators. Maybe I can shed a little light on the > subject.
Ahhhh, your more than welcome indeed ! :o) > This doesn't sound right. Are you sure the collective is set to 0%, and not > just bottomed out on control? Ah well, I don't know.. :-/ Since there is no torque guage, I don't have clue what's really going on. All there is, is a vertical "cursor" on the far left of the HUD display, which doens't have any marks on it. I just assumed that it ranged from 0 to 100%, but maybe it's more like 50-100%, so there is always some lift being produced...no way to tell :o( > With zero colelctive, you should assume the > flight profile of a homesick brick... Oh, sorry. In clearer terms, yes, you > should fall out of the sky. So, means that either the FDM is faulty, or that the Pg Up/Dn keys can't zero the collective. In either case, it's not fixable and I can only wait and pray that it's fixed soon in a future version of the program ! :o( > You don't 'enter auto-rotation' just because you lose power. > Autorotation is more a maneuver than a state Oops, sorry if my wording was incorrect. It's just that frogs don't really speak english very well you know ;o) :-/ But it was great reading your description of autorotation, it was exactly my understanding of the thing. Sadly I can't practice it right now, as I am using the keyboard, and it really takes a joystick to do fast yet accurate/fine adjustments to the controls, needed to land safely when in autoration.... Computer parts being cheaper and cheaper these days, hopefully I can afford a good joystick and pedals soon, and really enjoy heli flying :o) > I heard it described once as "An autorotation is something to keep the pilot > busy while he is crashing". :o) I will write this one down :-) > I hope this helps, and yes, I look forward to someday in the future being > able to contribute to the JSBSim helicopter modeling efforts, to make that > FDM more complete. I have other stuff on the plate right now, though.... Yes, please help if (when...) you can. Looks like for now, X-plane is much more suited to helis than Flightgear is. Hopefully this will change soon, say in the next year or two ? I guess it all depends how popular Helis are among flightGear developpers community ? For now, sadly, Helis look more like an afterthought... :o( Vince _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
