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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby Thorsten » Fri Dec 01, 2017 8:01 am

It's called FGAddon and FG can download it really easily :mrgreen:
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby StuartC » Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:26 am

Should have picked a chopper with a proper. i.e. more realistic FDM for your project, the Alouette III one is terrible. I pulled 4 consecutive loops then barrel rolled continuously down the length of a runway in that, which is a series of manoeuvres the III just cant do in the real world.
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby Thorsten » Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:15 am

Should have picked a chopper with a proper. i.e. more realistic FDM for your project, the Alouette III one is terrible. I pulled 4 consecutive loops then barrel rolled continuously down the length of a runway in that, which is a series of manoeuvres the III just cant do in the real world.


Admittedly the thought of doing aerobatics with helicopters didn't occur to me at all. I doubt there's much data to be had outside the normal envelope, but inside the envelope the handling is, shall we say, plausible given other FG helicopters.

Since I lack any real-life helicopter experience, I can't really comment on details - except as I said earlier, I have no intention of working on the FDM, but I'll be happy to take merge requests from anyone who likes improving it.
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby FighterAce » Fri Dec 01, 2017 4:04 pm

So I can download the autopilot bot through FGAddon?
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby wkitty42 » Fri Dec 01, 2017 4:49 pm

the bot stuff is, AIUI, built into the Alouette... you'll need that craft to get the bot code... the bot, itself, is already available as a walker... again, IIUC... i don't think they're using two different models, one for walker and one for pilot model...
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby Lydiot » Fri Dec 01, 2017 4:50 pm

I guess this is my contribution...

Lydiot wrote in Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:40 am:Took me over 40 minutes to do it.....

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but finally...

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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby cubaseboy » Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:58 am

Image Hey! Found the Oblivion house from the movie and placed it in the mountains near Rio de Janeiro!
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby cubaseboy » Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:03 am

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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby cubaseboy » Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:05 am

Image Assigned a landing pad ICAO.
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby cubaseboy » Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:07 am

Image Party at the Oblivion house. Where's the band!?!? If you look close, it's a Marshall amp. Waiting for Hendrix to kiss the sky!
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby cubaseboy » Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:21 am

Image Hi y'all! Is it an effective party!?!?
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby paju1986 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:28 pm

Landing inside Camp Nou football stadium on Barcelona.

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Carrier landing challenge reloaded

Postby hans05 » Sun Jan 21, 2018 3:18 pm

The Captain of Nimitz wouldn't let me land on deck and under Deck it was full.
So I found myself an alternative.

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I have a video of the landing but no youtube account :(
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby FighterAce » Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:27 pm

Create a YouTube account (free), or post on Vimeo.
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Re: Extreme Helicopter Landing Challenge

Postby hans05 » Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:25 am

Hmmm, youtube demands SMS authentication and I am not going to give Google my mobile phone number.
Vimeo works with mail so I went for that 8)



The actual landing gets hot at around 5:20.
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