Simviation Forum - Newbie needs help with piloting Helicopters

Aug 30^th, 2009 at 3:47am

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Hi, I would appreciate some help/advice. I've added a number of aircraft to FS 2004 and am having trouble controlling helicopters. When I start flying, every machine gets in an uncontrollable spin. No probs with fixed wing aircraft, apart from the Harrier. I use a Logitech Wingman Extreme joysick. Thanks in advance. I've only recently started downloading aircraft from the site and very impressed with the choice and quality!

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Reply #1 - Aug 30^th, 2009 at 4:28am

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Hi,

I found these quite useful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yk9I7Vx4lY&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhroxLx326k&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO5U-P7rvOA&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iefXDjdQzw&feature=channel

Kind regards
Manuel

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Reply #2 - Aug 30^th, 2009 at 7:10am

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Perhaps the best site for all things related to Choppers - including some excellent tutorials is the following site:

http://www.hovercontrol.com/

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #3 - Aug 31^st, 2009 at 11:56pm

Allen_Z Ex Member

anybody know wher to get heli force? The YouTube link doesn't work.

TankX

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Reply #4 - Sep 1^st, 2009 at 12:02am

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the easiest and simplest way to get a better feel, and control over your heli's in FS9 or X, is pick your helicopter of choice from the select craft menu, set time and date, Starting airport, Weather.... FLY NOW.

once you are in the cockpit, hit ALT > AIRCRAFT > REALISMS

on the left side of the screen, you will see 5 sliders. set the top 4 to 1/2 way. then hit OK.

now go fly your heli. you will now have "more responsive" Heli's, but less responsive Airplanes. If you like the jerk-it-around-the-skies Military Craft (F14, F16, F18) or even the Extra 300, you may have to move these 4 sliders back to 100%, but then your Heli's will become uncontrolable again. I personally just leave my sliders at 1/2 way for everything!!

Happy Heli Flying.

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Reply #5 - Sep 1^st, 2009 at 8:54pm

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I am from Hovercontrol.com and it is a very great place to go. All the members are very friendly and will try to help you with whatever you need help with. There is almost always someone on the forums.

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Reply #6 - Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 2:58pm

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Turn the realism settings down a little. High realism settings in heli's in MSFS are slightly too realistic (i.e too responsive to be realistic.).

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Reply #7 - Sep 4^th, 2009 at 8:02pm

Allen_Z Ex Member

anybody know where to get heli force? Huh

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Reply #8 - Sep 5^th, 2009 at 9:41am

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Quote:

anybody know where to get heli force? Huh

GOOGLE is your friend.

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #9 - Sep 5^th, 2009 at 4:54pm

Allen_Z Ex Member

Thanks Opa,
tried that, using 'heli force', with and without the author's name ...etc, with less than spectacular results

doesn't matter, I've been flyin the whirly beast since '98.

I was just curious about the effects of 'heli force'

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Reply #10 - Sep 7^th, 2009 at 9:40pm

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Allen, I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but i googled " HELIFORCE " and after reading a few links, found this on the following page from another forum:: http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8278

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Simon853
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HeliForce flight dynamics program for FS

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I've been hard at work over the last few months on a program that runs alongside FS, using FSUIPC to read and write variables, to augment the simplistic helicopter flight modeling in FS in order to create a more representative piloting experience.

The program enables pilots to fine tune the augmented behaviours according to helicopter type and save them in an xml profile.

Some of the things I've been able to add are Torque-induced Yaw, Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness, increased dynamic instability and additional helicopter specific failures.

It can be downloaded from here and includes a large pdf English manual: http://www.mediafire.com/?9zjcu5zeenc

Si

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Reply #11 - Sep 8^th, 2009 at 5:45pm

Allen_Z Ex Member

Thanx I'll check it out

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