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FSXA Helicopter (MET) power problem

mike november

mike november

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Hi,

I am actually running into a problem with the "power" of my SeaKing. I have power set in a way, that I finally have stable Rotor_RPM at all states of the flight, but, upon achieving that, the helicopter handles a little weird out of ground effect. I climbs. Even with very little collective the thing climbs as if beeing paid for it and I need a lot of nose down to convert vertical speed into forward motion. I use helitrim, but even with that, it it really hard to get rid of the climb tendency.

Apart from that, available power within ground effect feels right, and, when stable forward motion is finally established, speed and torque do correspond. When bleeding off speed for landing, again, ridiculous tendency to climb... Any ideas?
 
Hey MN,

just my quick two cents..
You should try to lower
inflow_vel_reference
in the Main Rotor section of the aircraft.cfg. It has NO effect on torque, MOI, etc, but it HAS effect on maximum speed and lift. Just these two are effected by this entry.
(test it,,you could set it zero..all gauges would be perfectly normal, only the helo wouldn't lift off)

So, in order to get rid of the maximum speed then, I would advice you to lower the drag value in the Fuselage section. Two profits: 1. your extreme nose down attitude would improve 2. maximum speed remains high.

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So, decrease inflow_vel_reference and decrease drag value...

Best regards,
Steven
 
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