cv1000 wrote in Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:35 pm:StuartC wrote in Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:10 pm:Westland Gazelle. Leuchars, Perth, St Andrews area.
Nice video. A small question though, how do you get your helicopter to hover stably immediately after takeoff? Whenever I try to do the same, my heli behaves like an angry bull in a rodeo. I try my best to maintain control with the cyclic and the foot pedals and it works to some extent on the Alouette III and the Eurocopter EC-130. The Robinson R-22, however, has made it a habit to murder my virtual Avatar whenever I try to spool up its rotors!
The R22 is just an Angry Chopper, Horible in every way and in real life too.
The Alouete III doesn't behave much like the Alouette III and nether does the basic EC130 ( its actually way easier than it should be ).
Every Helicopter has a basic desire to kill you. You need to practice and tame it. Every helicopter type is different and behaves differently. Some have an SAS system to aid Stability, some do not. Practice on the difficult ones because if you master those, converting to the others will be much easier. The Reason the R22 is used in real life training is because its a little angry pig to fly. I have time on the big brother , the R66 and to give you an idea the cyclic input required to fly it amounts just to the level of movement in my wrist. There is no hauling the Cyclic all over the place, its not required. Its all very small, micro inputs. The R22 its even more sensitive to input. When it comes to pedal work then you are always going to need increasing pedal as you increase collective and produce more torque ( until you reach an airspeed where the aerodynamics of the fuselage and V stab aid in keeping it pointing where you are going ). Basic way of telling what pedal to expect to use in a hover is to watch the blades on starting ( on what ever helicopter your choose ). The Tail will try to turn in towards the retreating blade so you will require more pedal on the side with the retreating blade ( unless the FDM is completely wrong ).
Then its just down to Practice practice practice and when your done, practice some more .