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Post by olderndirt on Jun 5, 2015 16:32:45 GMT -5
Me and Alabeo - hoping it'll hover  .  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 19:05:42 GMT -5
Well???  |
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Post by Bushpounder on Jun 5, 2015 22:37:17 GMT -5
The hover button is P
BP;)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2015 23:10:16 GMT -5
Keep up the good work. Glad you enjoy flying them. I have trouble keeping them stable.
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Post by pivo11 on Jun 6, 2015 2:21:21 GMT -5
Look ... up in the air ...  Good on ya, Dave. |
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Post by olderndirt on Jun 6, 2015 10:15:41 GMT -5
Keep up the good work. Glad you enjoy flying them. I have trouble keeping them stable. Must admit it's a lot of fun though I suspect there's a lot more to it than FSX allows. Low and super slow reveals scenery items I'd missed before. |
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Post by olderndirt on Jun 6, 2015 10:27:13 GMT -5
Well??? While I realize 'hover', with rotor speed constant, is basically zero ground speed with enough collective to maintain height, sometimes things just go to hell in a handbasket - acts like some kind of stall traveling around or backwards. Lots of pushing and pulling, similar to 'unusual attitude recoveries' in fixed wing, gets me back for another try. |
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Post by olderndirt on Jun 6, 2015 10:29:31 GMT -5
The hover button is P BP;) Wouldn't that be handy. |
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Post by olderndirt on Jun 6, 2015 10:31:59 GMT -5
Look ... up in the air ... Good on ya, Dave. Good, you're back. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2015 19:40:44 GMT -5
The hover button is P BP;) Wouldn't that be handy. No; "P" is what you need to do when you try to make one of those things actually hover |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2015 19:42:29 GMT -5
Well??? While I realize 'hover', with rotor speed constant, is basically zero ground speed with enough collective to maintain height, sometimes things just go to hell in a handbasket - acts like some kind of stall traveling around or backwards. Lots of pushing and pulling, similar to 'unusual attitude recoveries' in fixed wing, gets me back for another try. Yep. Sounds about right. It's a crazy system for sure. I actually was going to get my rotary license at one point. It was right after that I found out my flying days were over. Probably saved my life, that! |
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Post by olderndirt on Jun 6, 2015 20:07:07 GMT -5
While I realize 'hover', with rotor speed constant, is basically zero ground speed with enough collective to maintain height, sometimes things just go to hell in a handbasket - acts like some kind of stall traveling around or backwards. Lots of pushing and pulling, similar to 'unusual attitude recoveries' in fixed wing, gets me back for another try. Yep. Sounds about right. It's a crazy system for sure. I actually was going to get my rotary license at one point. It was right after that I found out my flying days were over. Probably saved my life, that! Flew fixed wing for forty years and all I ever did with a helicopter was look at it. |
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Post by spud on Jun 7, 2015 12:35:10 GMT -5
 Rotary Wing flight is certainly different than fixed wing IRL. The faster you go the closer to stalling you get. T.O. reguires left rudder and if the vibrations stop your A## is in big trouble!  My first attempt at hovering in a 1/2 mile square grass field resulted in seeing a lot more of the grass than I really cared to. Instructor solution was to air taxi to the treeline about 30' away and said, "its your airplane". Funny how the eminate threat of death will help steady your control responses!  I avoid the helos in FSX because not having a collective the sensation is totally unreal to me. I will admit that the closest I ever came to an accident was with a cadet who made a bad autorotation recovery and snapped the gear strut on an H-34. I got it in a hover before ground contact and flew home where after hovering for an hour while the strut was replaced by some very capable mechs working from the ground and the A/C cabin.
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Post by olderndirt on Jun 8, 2015 19:44:45 GMT -5
My next 'autorotate' will be my first. Having the Saitek X52 throttle, in your left hand, simulating the collective makes it a little more realistic and I just run the throttle(s) wide open. During my Air Force days in Alaska, the SAR chopper was an H21 'Banana Bird' and I remember him practicing autorotations - made it look so easy.
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Good on ya, Dave. 
Rotary Wing flight is certainly different than fixed wing IRL. The faster you go the closer to stalling you get. T.O. reguires left rudder and if the vibrations stop your A## is in big trouble! 
