by ranger8 » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:13 pm
Ok,
I got my controls figured out, and got to fly the r22 with full controll capability.
Not as impressed as I had hoped to be from my initial testing, but not totaly disapointed either.
simply said, there's some work to do, and from what i've seen so far, a realistic flight model is acheiveable.
not knowing how the fdm works or accounts for things, the posistion and weight of the pilot will be my first suggestion.
The PIC for the R22 or 44 or 66 or basicly most american made, counterclockwise rotating helicopters, needs to be on the right hand side of the aircraft. in the case of the robinsons, solo flight is prohibited from the left seat because of where the pilots weight would put the c.g. The c.g. would be so far left of center,that not enough right lateral cyclic would be available to maneuver the ship.
The current version seems to lack tail rotor(rudder) authority, in the real 22 or 44, only about 1/8 to 1/4 of left pedal is needed to cancel out the right yaw during pick up, or in a stable hover.
example: a pilot might need between an 1/8 and 1/4 left pedal to pick up straight, then back off to an 1/8 in the hover.
the input from hover to climbing flight does need to increase slightly as collective is added, the sim requires much more to be added than is real when adding collective, and conversly to much right pedal input when collective is decreased.